In July 2006, Epstein was indicted by a grand jury on a felony charge of soliciting prostitution, which did not address the 14-year-old victim's age. He was arrested and spent one night in Palm Beach County jail, released the next day on $3,000 bond.

The poll, conducted July 10–14 among 1,290 registered voters nationwide, shows that 63% disapprove of how the administration handled the Epstein files, which were closed by the Justice Department earlier this month without releasing additional documents.

Democrats have already forced Republicans to take tough Epstein-related procedural votes that have stoked a barrage of constituent calls into GOP offices, but they have not yet been able to force a clear up-or-down vote on releasing the so-called Epstein files.

A Republican thorn in Donald Trump’s side is joining forces with a California Democrat to seek answers from the administration over sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie–whose opposition to the GOP’s budget bill last month led Trump to demand his exile from the party–teamed up with Rep.

Tillis then called out Trump directly for attempting to dismiss the actions of Epstein, a disgraced billionaire and convicted sex offender who died under suspicious circumstances while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, as “boring.”

A growing number of MAGA-aligned Republican lawmakers are at odds with US President Donald Trump over his administration’s refusal to release more information about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Once some of Trump’s closest allies,

An Arizona Republican is pushing for the release of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even as President Donald Trump attempts to put the issue in the rearview mirror.

Most notably, Elon Musk claimed in a now-deleted post on X that Trump's name is on the Epstein client list. In the post, he wrote, "Time to drop a really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.

The Trump Administration’s handling of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s case is opening divides in the GOP.

Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president’s stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition.