"It's hard not to chuckle at the mess the Trump administration has made for itself" over Jeffrey Epstein, said Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. For years, the president and his allies stoked conspiracy theories about the disgraced financier,

Here, The Telegraph rounds up everything you need to know about the Epstein scandal – and why Mr Trump can’t escape it. Prominent voices in Mr Trump’s Maga movement have spent years playing into conspiracy theories that Epstein did not kill himself in 2019, and was silenced by “clients” who feared he would expose their part in sex trafficking.