Steve Bannon confronted over Jeffrey Epstein at MAGA event
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Top advisers to President Donald Trump and figureheads of the online “America first” movement shared the stage before around 5,000 students ranging from high school freshman to college seniors gathered in Tampa, Florida, for Turning Point USA’s largest-ever Student Action Summit.
Prominent MAGA movement voices are calling out Trump's policy contradictions as Republicans prepare for a bumpy midterm election
We're not even six months into Trump's second term, and we're already seeing some major cracks in his MAGA base on issues like foreign wars and possible amnesty. The biggest example yet: FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is considering leaving his post after a heated confrontation with Pam Bondi over the so-called "Epstein files.
For years, Trump's base thrived on promises to expose secret government plots and powerful cabals of pedophiles. What happens when he fails to deliver?
On Monday, Trump announced that he was reversing a brief pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine. The pause had initially caused many key MAGA figures to celebrate, believing Trump had finally cut off Ukraine. (A March poll found Republicans opposed continuing to send Ukraine weapons and financial aid by a nearly 2-to-1 margin .)
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Ken Dilanian and Brandy Zadrozny join Chris Hayes to discuss the backlash the Trump administration is facing about the Jeffrey Epstein case. “I have never seen this level of incredible disarray within the MAGA movement,
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"We The People do not believe the latest Epstein excuses by the FBI and it's insulting to your base," one social media user wrote.
"I’m a boomer mom. I’m no longer in contact with my eldest boomer sister, as she was so happy that Trump would not allow FEMA to help with our wildfires."
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The clash between the deputy FBI director and the attorney general has exposed tensions in Trump’s inner sanctum.