President Donald Trump's super powers as a public figure have long included the ability to redirect, evade and deny. But the Republican's well-worn methods of changing the subject when a tough topic stings politically are not working as his White House fends off persistent unrest from his usually loyal base about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.

His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out of Doha, Qatar, after Hamas' latest response in the talks, saying it "clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza."

Trump has repeatedly denied prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and claimed he cut off their relationship long ago. For a president skilled at manipulating the media and controlling the Republican Party, it has been the most challenging test of his ability to shift the conversation in his second term.

President Trump has come under fire from a section of his MAGA base over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

The president deflected when asked about the Epstein case, griping that reporters never focus on the other men who associated with the convicted sex offender

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who has been a target of recent attacks from Trump, also swooped in: “The president won’t rule out a pardon for a convicted child sex trafficker and Epstein’s co-conspirator. Says he is allowed to do it. Nothing suspicious about that...”

New polling reveals that the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to cast a shadow over Donald Trump and his administration.

President Donald Trump denied that he was briefed on his name appearing in the case files of Jeffrey Epstein, seeming contradicting a recent report in The Wall Street Journal that he was. After Air Force One landed in Scotland on Friday,

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together for more than a decade. One became president, the other died in jail.

A Birmingham area political group critical of President Donald Trump is back with a new billboard and a provocative question: “What’s the big secret, fellas?” Birmingham Blue Dot, a group of progressives,

President Donald Trump was listed as a contributor to the birthday book sent to Jeffrey Epstein, the New York Times alleged on Thursday. The book was part of a collection of notes compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.