The tumult is well underway and multiple questions remain unanswered. Here are the latest developments, commentary, and analysis.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the fallout around the Trump administration's Epstein memo, calling it a "distraction."

Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” President Donald Trump asked a reporter on July 8, amid flooding in central Texas. “This guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking. We have Texas,

No doubt for mainstream-media readers, the Epstein rift came out of nowhere,” said a New York Times reporter. “We had not established how important this story was to a good chunk of the MAGA base.” A political reporter at a rival publication added,

Fallout from the Epstein scandal is escalating. The Justice Department has moved to unseal select grand jury transcripts, though MAGA loyalists say it’s not enough. MSNBC Senior Reporter Brandy Zadrozny,

One person who has never forgotten the victims is Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, whose 2019 reporting on the original criminal case reopened the scandal and led to Epstein’s arrest. In her reporting, Brown highlighted the voices of victims such as Virginia Giuffre.

Sam Stein and Bill Kristol explore how the lingering Epstein scandal continues to haunt Donald Trump. Especially as parts of the MAGA base grow restless. They discuss the political fallout, the persistence of conspiracy theories,

Trump faces MAGA backlash over Epstein as calls for transparency grow and loyalists demand the files be released.

MAGA supporters criticize Trump's defense of AG Pam Bondi after DOJ revealed there is no Epstein client list, despite previous promises to expose additional details on scandal.

The world's richest man challenged the president's attempt to bury the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, framing the issue as a moral crisis that transcends politics.

On July 6, a bombshell dropped on the MAGAverse. Axios reported via leaked Department of Justice documents that the government investigation found no mystery in the death by suicide of disgraced society pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and that he kept no client list.

Congress had until the end of day on Friday to pass the rescissions request, or the funding would have had to be spent as originally intended.