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Republican strategist and political analyst Susan Del Percio slammed House Republicans’ efforts to stonewall measures to unseal documents on Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday, arguing their tactics are actually “prolonging” criticism of Republicans among their base.

“I think he's prolonging it and making it actually worse,” Percio said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports.

President Donald Trump lobbed criminal allegations at Barack Obama, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and other political opponents during an Oval Office meeting with Philippines president Bongbong Marcos.

The U.S. president was asked about his Department of Justice seeking a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sends lawmakers home to avoid action on the growing scandal, and Trump instead told reporters they should be talking about his administration's criminal claims against Obama and others.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused President Donald Trump of a plot to silence Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he would meet with her before she testified before Congress.

Hours before the House Oversight Committee approved a motion to subpoena Maxwell, Blanche confirmed that he intended to meet with her at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

President Donald Trump insisted that he was not aware of the Department of Justice's effort to speak to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Amid the fallout from the Trump administration's decision not to release additional Epstein files, the president was asked on Tuesday if he urged Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to meet with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex offenses.

The Department of Justice is requesting a meeting with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell as President Donald Trump has been unable to turn the page on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — and it's left some conservatives shocked.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday morning that Attorney General Pam Bondi had directed him to set up a meeting with Maxwell, who's serving 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein's human trafficking network.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said President Donald Trump launched an all out attack on him late Monday because he pushed for the release of files related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

"President's consultants have spent $1.8 million against me, and I got a new tweet last night on Truth Social," Massie said on Tuesday. "And clearly that was because I've done this Epstein file. Like dogs don't bark at parked cars, right?"

CNN's John Berman called Rep. Nicole Malliotakis' (R-NY) bluff on releasing files from Jeffrey Epstein's criminal case.

The Department of Justice issued a statement earlier this month showing the disgraced financier had taken his own life in jail and had not kept a "client list," but Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday that he was seeking to meet with Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as anger continues to simmer within President Donald Trump's hardcore base.

A fan of President Donald Trump told C-SPAN that she wasn't concerned about the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein because it was "human nature" to molest children.

During Tuesday's Washington Journal program, host John McArdle opened the phone lines to ask Republicans if they wanted to see more Epstein files released.

President Donald Trump is flailing as he tries to turn the page on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, but he's apparently been hiding from reporters since a damaging report broke last week.

The president sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters for $10 billion after the newspaper published a report on a birthday letter he'd written to the disgraced financier in 2003, but MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said Trump has kept a low profile since the story was reported.

President Donald Trump's administration made a significant promise to the American people that he's having a hard time keeping, according to some experts.

Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, promised back in April that the administration would make 90 trade deals within 90 days. However, progress has been difficult to come by, to say the least. Now, Trump administration officials like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are beginning to change their tune.

President Donald Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files saga may have permanently damaged his reputation with his base, according to one columnist.

Ahmed Baba described the impact of Trump's decision not to release the Epstein files, as he promised to do on the 2024 presidential campaign trail, during an appearance on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip." The comments come at a time when Trump is searching for ways to distract his base from the Epstein files altogether.

President Donald Trump's luck in the courtroom may be starting to run out, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Glenn Kirschner, MSNBC legal analyst and the host of the "Justice Matters" podcast, created a short podcast episode about Trump's attempts to find a friendly judge for his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. He sued the outlet last week for $20 billion for defamation over the recent report about a "bawdy" letter that Trump sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday.