ToplinePresident Donald Trump lashed out again at critics for focusing on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, praising Attorney General Pam Bondi even as her decision not to release additional information on the so-called Epstein Files has caused a major rift among his base,

The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative

A growing chorus of MAGA stars, including firebrand Megyn Kelly, are calling for US Attorney General Pam Bondi ‘s head over the Jeffrey Epstein files controversy — despite President Trump’s spirited defense of her.

Jeffrey Epstein's case continues years after his death, with new images of Maxwell in prison and a government memo upholds suicide while revealing over 1,000 victims

While New York's chief medical examiner ruled in 2019 that Epstein died by suicide, Trump on the 2024 campaign trail said he would declassify federal files on the man. A new report released last week by the FBI and Department of Justice said officials found no such list or proof that Epstein was murdered in custody.

Multiple sources have detailed clashes between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI’s number two, Dan Bongino, who is reportedly considering leaving his post over Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files.

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he described in a 1964 Harper’s Magazine analysis of the use of loose facts and pseudo-facts to build an alternative reality for political ends.