A broken promise to release more information about the Jeffrey Epstein case has sparked outrage among some of President Donald Trump's loyal supporters. Right-wing influencers were once bolstered by Trump's own claims on this case, but are now feeling their demands are being squelched by his administration. Figures like commentator Tucker Carlson, activist Laura Loomer and Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon claim the government's handling of the case shows a lack of transparency. Anger over the case threatens to divide the MAGA faithful.

The Justice Department will not release more files related to the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. A Justice Department memo released Monday says there is no evidence Epstein maintained a "client list." It represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration itself had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was "sitting on my desk" in preparation for release. Bondi for weeks had suggested that more evidence was going to be revealed, saying in one interview: "It's a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public."

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. It is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first one was through an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, after the platform went dark briefly when a national ban took effect. The second was in April when White House officials believed they were nearing a deal to spin off TikTok into a new company with U.S. ownership that fell apart after China backed out following Trump's tariff announcement.