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Why is Trump fighting with MAGA over Epstein - and what has the president said about the paedophile?
Donald Trump is facing backlash from his own party and supporters over his attempts to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein case without releasing more information.
The paedophile financier was found dead in his Manhattan cell in August 2019, shortly after he was arrested on sex trafficking charges. Rumours have long circulated over who he may have supplied underage girls to, and who visited his private island.
Some of those rumours quickly spiralled into conspiracy theories, which Mr Trump fanned the flames of during his campaign for a second term. His Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement accused the Biden administration of suppressing the extent of Epstein's paedophilia, predatory behaviour and his so-called "client list" - thought to contain names of the rich and famous who conspired with him in a child sex trafficking operation.
But the president has done a complete U-turn on his administration's promises to release more information publicly - and not everyone in his MAGA movement is on board. Here's what you need to know about every aspect of the Trump-Epstein saga, from their past relations, to the president's dramatic shift on the case against him.
What was Trump and Epstein's relationship? Mr Trump was pictured with Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell on several occasions in the 1990s and early 2000s, but has played down his relationship with them in recent years, suggesting they simply moved in the same circles in Florida and New York. In 2019, after Epstein was arrested, Mr Trump told reporters he "knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him.
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