US politics live: MAGA fumes as Donald Trump tries to put an end to Jeffrey Epstein saga
It's the one-year anniversary of the attempt on President Donald Trump's life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Mr Trump has popped up at the final of the FIFA Club World Cup in New Jersey alongside First Lady Melania Trump and the President of football's governing body, Gianni Infantino.
Mr Trump gestured at the crowd, pumping his fist in an echo of the famous 'fight, fight, fight' moment immediately after he was injured in Butler.
The United States is one host nation of next year's FIFA World Cup.
Elsewhere, there is still swirling discontent among Mr Trump's supporters over his efforts to make the Jeffrey Epstein saga go away.
'We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,' the President complained in a lengthy social media post over the weekend.
'For years, it's Epstein, over and over again.'
He called for FBI Director Kash Patel to focus on other things 'instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein'.
'One year ago our Country was DEAD, now its' the 'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World. Let's keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter!'
All random capitalisations and quote marks there are his, not ours.
The problem is quite a few people, including many within MAGA, actually do care about Epstein, and about pursuing his collaborators. Ghislaine Maxwell is already in jail, but what of the men who also exploited the sex trafficker's victims?
A Justice Department memo, revealed to the public a week ago, concluded there never was any Epstein 'client list', despite Attorney-General Pam Bondi's remarks a few months ago in which she said such a list was 'on my desk' for review.
And it signalled there was no intent, from law enforcement, to pursue further third parties.
This continues to provoke a dissatisfied reaction among leading MAGA media figures.
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