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Hosts of the pro-MAGA Real America's Voice network struggled to cope after President Donald Trump said people seeking the truth about Jeffrey Epstein were "bad people."

In remarks on Tuesday, the president insisted "only pretty bad people" were still interested in learning more about the accused sex trafficker.

A former aide to President Donald Trump urged him to dump the Jeffrey Epstein scandal into Attorney General Pam Bondi's lap and position her as a possible scapegoat.

The attorney general ignited a MAGA firestorm by unceremoniously declaring the disgraced financier had killed himself and had not kept a "client list," which contradicted conspiracy theories embraced by Trump's supporters.

A proposal by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to get the Jeffrey Epstein files and client list firestorm resolved as the MAGA base revolts is being greeted with laughter and incredulity.

During an appearance on "The Benny Show," the controversial Colorado Republican admitted the Epstein fight, with the Department of Justice and AG Pam Bondi caught in the middle, is tearing the party apart — and she suggested a special counsel be appointed.

President Donald Trump has claimed the Jeffrey Epstein files were "made up" by his political enemies — but a former FBI official is debunking his timeline as impossible.

The president was asked whether Attorney General Pam Bondi had told him if his name was cited in the case files, and he said no, but then Trump went on to say the documents had been fabricated by Barack Obama, James Comey and Joe Biden's administration. CNN's John Berman asked former FBI special agent Mike Feinberg to unpack those claims.

Senate Republicans barely scraped together enough votes to move a plan forward to claw back billions in already-approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, and political analysts say that's a sign of just how unpopular the measure is with voters.

Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote Tuesday to advance the rescissions package to the Senate floor, setting up another possible marathon voting session Wednesday, and Democratic strategist Maria Cardona told "CNN This Morning" the clawback demanded by President Donald Trump was politically toxic.

Based upon a press availability on Tuesday where Donald Trump expressed dismay at more questions about his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, The Atlantic contributor Jonathan Lemire suggested the president has a legitimate crisis on his hands.

From his perch as a co-host on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the longtime Capitol Hill reporter raised an eyebrow at Trump's inability to control members of his own party who want the files related to the accused pedophile released.

Noting a memo from the Department of Justice that claimed there was nothing in the files worth releasing to the public that created the MAGA firestorm that continues to grow, columnist David French told the panel, "This is a wild moment. I knew it would be a problem when I saw that memo. I knew it would be a problem for him. I did not see how much of a problem it would be, and how hard it would be for him to tamp it down."

"Very fascinating, frankly, to watch Donald Trump, the president of the United States grapple with this, a guy who was an acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein, who once called him a terrific guy, who acknowledged, jokingly, his affinity for very young women," offered co-host Willie Geist. "Trump talking about Jeffrey Epstein frankly just looks uncomfortable when we see him there yesterday talking about this."

"And clearly flailing," Lemire interjected. "I mean, yesterday on the tarmac there at Joint Base Andrews, talking about how boring the story is, he wouldn't understand why anyone would talk about it. Mind you, it was just two days prior that, as David mentioned, Donald Trump's defense was that it was a conspiracy created by Barack Obama."

"I don't take that at face value," he added. "That's not boring if you're saying the former president of United States created this, and it just shows that they have not landed on a good defense, as you noted."

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President Donald Trump delivered a meandering speech in Pittsburgh on Tuesday in which he couldn’t remember names and shared what seemed to be false anecdotes.

At a Pennsylvania “Energy and Innovation” summit hosted by Rep. Dave McCormick (R-PA), Trump admitted he initially thought artificial intelligence was “not [his] thing.”

House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson paid tribute to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, portraying him less as an elected leader and more as a divinely chosen figure. He declared that Trump had been “miraculously” spared from an assassination attempt during the 2024 campaign, so that he could go on to enact his “America First” agenda by signing into law the GOP budget—his so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping package of tax cuts and government spending.

Johnson, widely viewed as a Christian nationalist, told reporters (video below) that during last year’s assassination attempt that left one bystander dead, “God miraculously spared the president’s life.”

Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly received a brutal fact-check from NewsNation host Leland Vittert over the Jeffrey Epstein case.

O'Reilly joined Vittert on NewsNation's "On Balance" to discuss the case. O'Reilly claimed that the Epstein files have become a political detriment for President Donald Trump. He then attempted to repeat some of Trump's talking points, like that Democrats bear the responsibility for the files not being released yet.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) announced that he would not drop out of the New York City mayoral race this week. On Tuesday, however, he dropped a new video on Threads with no commentary, showing him jumping a man's car.

Cuomo is shown with a young man of color whose car appears to have broken down. Cuomo attaches jumper cables to the car, and the driver tries to start it. Cuomo hands him the cables, they exchange a near-finger-snap dap handshake, and the two go about their business.

In a new interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called for greater transparency from Attorney General Pam Bondi in the wake of the Justice Department’s report on the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Earlier this year, Bondi said that a supposed client list maintained by Epstein for blackmail purposes was “sitting on (her) desk right now to review,” despite the DOJ’s report last week that concluded no such list existed. Speaking on "The Benny Show" this week, right-wing host Benny Johnson urged Bondi to address the discrepancies in her past remarks.

President Donald Trump issued a rambling boast about his contributions to the U.S. economy during a speech at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on Tuesday, seeming to pull a bizarre number out of thin air.

“So in six months, but really three months. But let’s say four months. We have $16 trillion. The other administration had negative. Nobody’s ever seen these numbers?” said Trump.

Far-right conservative Charlie Kirk has been spinning in a circle for 48 hours, and it has left MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace shaking her head.

Over the weekend, Kirk noted at his Turning Point USA conference that all of the new, young, male supporters among the MAGA followers are furious over the lack of transparency over Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested by President Donald Trump's government in 2019.