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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump flounders as he calls Epstein furor a ‘hoax’ while sex-abuse survivors bring Capitol to tears

Has Donald Trump found the limit of his grip on MAGA world?

Congress is back in Washington and the attention around the Jeffrey Epstein investigation is more intense than ever. After lawmakers went home for the August recess some Republican leaders were hopeful that the headlines which have given the president and his allies the most trouble of any issue in years were finally on their way out of the news cycle.

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