Bannon confronted over Jeffrey Epstein at MAGA event

MAGA world remains in a state of chaos over the Trump administration's Jeffrey Epstein memo, if the events of Friday are any indication.

- Justin Baragona, The Independent

While the FBI's deputy director was taking a mental health day and considering resigning amid the continued fallout over the handling of the Epstein files, Steve Bannon got an earful from attendees at a MAGA youth event who declared that Donald Trump "has become the deep state" because he is "covering up for pedophiles."

Nearly a week after the Department of Justice released an unsigned two-page letter concluding that Epstein committed suicide and the disgraced financier had no "client list" to blackmail prominent figures who took part in his underage sex trafficking, the administration is still facing fury from MAGA supporters who feel betrayed by the about-face. Much of that anger has been directed at Attorney General Pam Bondi, who breathlessly hyped the release of explosive evidence in the Epstein case and even said the long-fabled "client list" was on her desk, only to release binders of already-public documents and later put out a letter claiming the list never existed.