Turning Point USA founder and staunch MAGA loyalist Charlie Kirk issued a new message to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, after the president went after Republicans and his own supporters for questioning the administration's handling of the investigation into the death of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump lashed out at conservative backers who have raised questions about his administration's handling of the Epstein case, slamming them in a July 16 social media post and again during an Oval Office event for furthering what he described as the "Jeffrey Epstein hoax."

The rhetoric marks a dramatic escalation for the Republican president, who has broken with some of his most loyal backers on issues in the past, but never with such fervor.

In a recently-resurfaced interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump hesitated to answer a question concerning the release of the Epstein files.

But no issue has exposed the underlying fault lines in the MAGA tent quite like the so-called Epstein files. The furor has centered on a new government review of the evidence surrounding the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein,