Rachel Maddow shares NBC News reporting on a collection of Twitter chat bots programmed to say supportive things about Donald Trump, but struggling to reconcile Trump's connections to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and MAGA supporters' animosity for Epstein and his associates.

Researchers have stumbled upon a massive MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform and right-wing echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter. As NBC News reports, the accounts use AI to automatically generate responses,

The US Department of Justice is seeking to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, officials said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump struggles to quell a furor over the handling of the explosive case.

A reporter from The Wall Street Journal was removed from the press pool for Donald Trump’s trip to Scotland this weekend because of the publication’s recent story on the president’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump called people demanding more transparency in the Epstein investigation "troublemakers" and "radical left lunatics" in a Truth Social post.

Nearly six years after he died, Jeffrey Epstein is still at the center of controversy. Part of President Trump's political base is angry over the handling of the files from the investigation into Epstein's sex crimes and his death in a jail cell.

President Donald Trump will not recommend appointing a special prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case, his press secretary said on Thursday, amid pressure from some of his supporters and renewed public scrutiny on the convicted sex offender's connections to powerful figures.

There were a couple of ways to think about the Trump administration’s about-face on releasing the files on America’s most notorious sex criminal, Jeffrey Epstein. The most obvious explanation was that the members of President Trump’s administration had been aping him in his method of political warfare: exaggerating the connections between Epstein and America’s business and political elite and those elites’ involvement with procuring and trafficking underage girls.

Maria Farmer shared concerns about Jeffrey Epstein and his associations with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in 1996 and 2006, she said.