Top Republicans rally around Bondi as MAGA rages over Epstein

• "It's definitely a full reversal on what was all said beforehand, and people are just not willing to accept it," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told the New York Times on Monday.
• "The president is just forgiving her, because she's a loyal soldier and he likes her and he doesn't want to go through the messy confirmation process of getting someone else," Megyn Kelly said on her radio program on Monday.

But Trump's congressional Republican allies are backing him up.

• "The president seems happy with her," Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Monday. "My assumption is she's making the best out of a situation that has been hanging around for a long time."
• Asked if he has confidence in Bondi amid the Epstein fallout, House Speaker Mike Johnson said: "I do."

Zoom out: Trump is trying to tamp down the tension in his party and has urged his "boys" to stop criticizing her handling of the Epstein files.

• "LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE'S GREAT!" he said, calling Epstein "somebody that nobody cares about."
• Trump isn't prepared to change course over how his administration has handled the Epstein evidence, Axios' Marc Caputo reported Monday.
• But his team is considering at least three ways Trump could try to defuse the issue, including appointing a special counsel.

The bottom line: "I have all the confidence in the world in" Bondi, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Axios. "I'm with the president on this one."

• "I trust the president's decision," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said.