Fox News host Laura Ingraham was met with loud boos after raising the topic of Jeffrey Epstein during a right-wing Turning Point USA. The awkward moment unfolded Friday night in front of a packed room of young conservatives , as Laura posed the controversial question to the crowd. ‘How many of you are satisfied – you can clap – satisfied with the results of the Epstein investigation? Clap!’ per a video on Reddit.

However, the MAGA crowd in Tampa, Florida , made it clear that they were far from happy with how the case has been handled. The group erupted in a chorus of boos, highlighting deep frustrations among the GOP ‘s base – particularly younger voters. Laura, 62, appeared briefly stunned by the response but quickly moved on.

‘Okay, I told you to clap! You guys weren’t listening,’ Laura joked as she pointed a finger at the group and laughed. ‘I’m not going to grade you on a curve.’ One person in the audience shouted at the Fox host: ‘We’re not satisfied!’

Laura replied: ‘I was going to get to that. How many of you are not satisfied?’ The auditorium then immediately erupted into applause. Political influencer Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, said he was trusting Donald Trump’s administration to handle the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. ‘Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein,’ Charlie said on his show on Real America’s Voice, referring to the Turning Point USA conference, per The Hill.

‘Honestly, I’m done talking about Epstein for the time being. ‘I’m going to trust my friends in the administration, I’m going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it, ball’s in their hands.’ Kirk added that he would ‘love’ to see the Justice Department unseal the grand jury testimony, arguing that it would be ‘a big win.’

‘I’m going to trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, [and] my friend Pam Bondi. All these guys,’ Kirk said, adding Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. ‘Ball’s in their court. I think that there was plenty of, let’s say, speeches that were directed towards this topic this last weekend. ‘So we don’t need to spend our valuable time on this program relitigating it.’

Recently, Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted tha t there was no such thing as an Epstein ‘client list’ – despite previously stating that the documents were ‘sitting on her desk,’ and Trump’s repeated campaign promises to release the alleged dossiers. Following her statement, Trump faced a brutal MAGA backlash from his most loyal supporters after he tried to downplay the mounting scandal.

He posted on his own Truth Social platform amid reports that FBI chiefs Dan Bongino and Kash Patel had threatened to resign unless Pam stepped down. ‘We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,’ Trump wrote.

He added that America should ‘not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody nobody cares about.’ But in an extremely rare sight, the response from his Truth Social followers was furious. The vast majority of the most upvoted comments came from those who objected to his Epstein argument.