MAGA Turns On Trump Over Handling Of Jeffrey Epstein Files

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Before taking office, President Trump promised to release the FBI's files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Now he is urging his supporters to stop talking about Epstein. We discuss what the backlash means for Trump, for MAGA, and for the future of the Republican party.

This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Stephen Fowler, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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1:10.1	I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.
1:12.2	I'm Stephen Fowler. I cover politics. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and
1:16.7	correspondent. Today on the show, we're talking about the backlash President Trump has
1:21.0	gotten recently over the FBI's investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
1:26.8	Epstein died by suicide in prison in 2019.
1:30.6	Stephen, let's back up for a moment and talk about who he was, who was Jeffrey Epstein,
1:35.9	and why has he become a focal point of so many conspiracy theories?
1:40.1	He was a registered sex offender. He died by suicide while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking.
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