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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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J Oliver Conroy

Tucker Carlson channels Maga rage over Epstein files – and opens rift with Trump

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Tucker Carlson at Donald Trump during a campaign event sponsored by Turning Point USA in Duluth, Georgia, on 23 October 2024. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

As Donald Trump tries to contain an ugly rift with his own supporters about the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, influential media personalities in the Maga movement face a tricky dilemma.

Should they close ranks with the US president – who has denounced demands for more information on Epstein as a “waste [of] Time and Energy” about “somebody that nobody cares about” – or pick at a political wound that the Trump administration desperately wants to scab over?

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