White House officials and other Trump allies said that the president, not the attorney general, has been the one having to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump is facing mounting pressure from his MAGA base to publicly release Justice Department files from the Epstein case.

Despite recent claims by President Donald Trump that former Biden officials doctored files related to Jeffrey Epstein, many of the documents -- including those mentioning Trump and several prominent Democrats -- have been public for years.

"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.

Amid a deepening furor from far-right supporters over his administration's reluctance to make public the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files, President Donald Trump on Thursday directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release "any and all" grand jury testimony related to the disgraced,

Funding clawback: In a vote early Friday, Congress approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting, after Republicans bowed to Mr. Trump in an unusual surrender of congressional spending power. The House’s 216-to-213 vote sent the package to Mr. Trump for his signature. Read more ›

Attorney General Pam Bondi made FBI agents trawl through about 100,000 investigative files relating to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and “flag” any that mentioned Donald Trump, according to a top Democrat.

President Trump is facing an uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein files. MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton reports on how it’s unclear what could satisfy his enraged followers, with experts pointing out that MAGA’s Epstein conspiracy theories run deep.