MAGA-friendly TV channel Newsmax is throwing shade at Fox News for tiptoeing around the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Anchor Rob Schmitt suggested that Fox News hosts are “terrified” to cover MAGA’s uproar over the Trump administration’s decision not to release any more information on the late convicted sex offender.

President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.

Conservative commentator Candace Owens decried the scandal as a “terminal cancer to the MAGA movement.” Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued: “The fact that the U.S. government, the one that I voted for, refused to take my question seriously and instead said, ‘Case closed, shut up conspiracy theorist,’ was too much for me.”

President Trump is struggling to move past the Epstein files as backlash grows within the Republican Party and his base. MSNBC’s Brandy Zadrozny joins to discuss.(Subscribe to Ari’s YouTube now:

Pressure has mounted for the release of more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom Trump once said was a "terrific guy."

The president disavowed longtime backers who are furious over the administration's conclusion that the accused sex trafficker died by suicide in jail and did not possess a secret list of clients.

It’s easy to underestimate the power of online conspiracy theories and the emotions they can conjure — and it seems Trump himself might be doing so now.