MAGA’s disgruntlement with President Donald Trump over his team’s dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein affair is turning into a political crisis, and a top pollster is comparing the fallout to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that hobbled former President Joe Biden.

The survey comes after President Donald Trump’s administration concluded an investigation into Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 in what was ruled a suicide after he was charged with sex trafficking minors.

Here is a timeline of Epstein and Trump’s relationship. Though it is not known when Epstein and Trump first met, Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that he had known Epstein for 15 years, which would date back to the late 1980s. “Terrific guy,” Trump said in the 2002 interview.

Alabama U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville waved away an ongoing debate among supporters of the Trump Administration over releasing information related to the case of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clients, saying “we won’t get involved.” Speaking to 1819 News Monday, Tuberville said, “We’ve got a lot more problems than that.”

From claiming Barack Obama was born in Kenya to accusing Ted Cruz’s dad of involvement in the JFK assassination, Donald Trump has always loved hyping conspiracy theories for political gain, and the Jeffrey Epstein case was no exception.

Donald Trump very rarely loses control of his own story. But the Jeffrey Epstein saga is beyond his powers to quell.

President Donald Trump becamepanicked after realizing he would take a starring role in the Jeffrey Epstein exposé he’d been promising for years and moved to shut it down, his biographer said on a podcast published Tuesday.