Donald Trump is mired in his biggest ever backlash from the MAGA faithful after he claimed there was nothing left of note in files relating to deceased pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A tumultuous week hasn’t been helped by the US president calling his supporters who favour releasing all documents related to Epstein as “weaklings” who have fallen for a “Democrat hoax” ... Mr Trump said it was time to move on and urged people to “not waste time and energy on … somebody that no one cares about”.

The problem is many in the MAGA-sphere do care about Epstein. They care a lot.

YouGov research, released last week, showed 75 per cent of Republicans want the Government to release all the documents it has about the Epstein case and 50 per cent of the same voters think a cover up is occurring.