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

The schism between President Trump and some of his most loyal supporters centers on his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

Trump asserted that outrage over the Justice Department’s decision to not release additional information and close the investigation was just the latest “scam” cooked up by Democrats.