Donald Trump's first term chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said that he believes the president is mentioned in the Jeffery Epstein files. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Last week, the Justice Department and the FBI abruptly walked back the notion that there's an Epstein client list of elites who participated in the wealthy New York financier’s trafficking of underage girls.

Trump is expected to make a controversial announcement or policy decision shortly in order to offset the unwanted attention on Jeffrey Epstein

Trump has made a volatile enemy out of Governor Gavin Newsom. California sued the federal government last month after Trump deployed thousands of National Guard members to manhandle Los Angeles’s anti-ICE protests. An appeals court later blocked a court decision that would have handed the authority of the National Guard back to Newsom.

President Donald Trump’s advisers have been frantically at work trying to diffuse the carnage that has followed the latest Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI findings on the Jeffrey Epstein case. MAGA has been in a tailspin after the DOJ and FBI found that no “client list” of powerful associates exists for the disgraced financier and that he died by suicide,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the outrage within his party over the Jeffrey Epstein files as “bull—t,” rebuking his own supporters for buying into what he called a “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” and declaring he no longer wanted the backing of “weaklings.”

Donald Trump elevated prominent proponents of Epstein conspiracies to senior law enforcement roles, and they're struggling to contain a fire that they spent years stoking.

MSNBC’s Melissa Murray reports on the escalating MAGA meltdown and internal crisis sparked by President Trump’s DOJ and its handling of the Epstein files, and is joined by Semafor’s Margaret Carlson.