Tucker Carlson channels Maga rage over Epstein files – and opens rift with Trump

As Maga supporters revolt over the Epstein scandal, figures like Tucker Carlson are now a gadfly of the White House's handling of the controversy

As Donald Trump tries to contain an ugly rift with his own supporters about the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, influential media personalities in the Maga movement face a tricky dilemma.

Should they close ranks with the US president - who has denounced demands for more information on Epstein as a waste [of] Time and Energy" about somebody that nobody cares about" - or pick at a political wound that the Trump administration desperately wants to scab over?