MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk sought to calm his audience after initially saying he was "done talking" about President Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein controversy. On his Tuesday podcast, Kirk noted that media outlets — including Raw Story — had reported on his attempt to avoid discussing the Trump administration's decision not to release additional files from the Epstein case.

No doubt for mainstream-media readers, the Epstein rift came out of nowhere,” said a New York Times reporter. “We had not established how important this story was to a good chunk of the MAGA base.” A political reporter at a rival publication added,

The cable news powerhouse has stopped covering the so-called Epstein files, but many other conservative media figures are still heavily scrutinizing the Trump administration’s handling of the situation.

There are suddenly a few punctures in the armor of a president who at times has seemed irrepressible. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Trump sycophant Charlie Kirk says he's tired of talking about the Epstein files and is now going to trust Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to resolve it. Trump apparently called this Christian nationalist racist, complaining about his conference focusing on Trump and describing him as the new Deep State.

President Donald Trump outraged many of his supporters after the Justice Department published an unsigned memo saying it would not release any more documents related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. For years, Trump and some members of his administration fanned conspiracy theories about the content of the files.

This has been brewing for a long time. And MAGA finally lost it on July 7 when Bondi's department issued a memo refuting two key points in the conspiracy theory: Epstein really did kill himself and did not leave behind a "client list" of wealthy, powerful perverts he had blackmailed.

Megyn Kelly argues why getting to the truth of Jeffrey Epstein really matters and why President Donald Trump should listen to the MAGA base. From "The Megyn Kelly Show" on Tuesday: MEGYN KELLY: It's interesting because there are some right-wing pundits online now who are saying no one cares about Jeffrey Epstein,

The White House is being backed into a corner as talk around the Jeffrey Epstein files continue to stir up mixed feelings from President Trump’s MAGA base. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez and Julie Tsirkin report the latest.