After President Trump urged a rattled MAGA base to not "waste [t]ime" on the Jeffrey Epstein case, some are softening their tones. But others still have their teeth sunk in the storyline. The big picture: Trump-world influencers and the president's base were blindsided by the Justice Department and FBI's conclusions that the disgraced financier did not have a "client list" and died by suicide,

President Donald Trump is staring down a brewing civil war within his MAGA coalition stemming from his administration’s handling of evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein case, with limited options to tamp down anger.