MAGA voices are rallying around President Trump following the Wall Street Journal article on his alleged birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein. Previously, they criticized his administration's handling of the Epstein files.

Researchers have stumbled upon a massive MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform and right-wing echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter. As NBC News reports, the accounts use AI to automatically generate responses,

Good luck convincing MAGA of that, said Josh Marshall in Talking Points Memo. Its cultlike belief that a cabal of "rich and powerful pedophiles" controls the world "runs really, really deep," and if Trump keeps stonewalling,

Steve Bannon says it’s going to be “a long, hot summer” in a season of American political recriminations. And, he tells me, Australians have a vital interest at stake in ways that we hadn’t even realised.

The MAGA base may be tearing itself apart over the Trump administration’s attempt to close the book on the Jeffrey Epstein case, but some of the president’s conspiracy-minded supporters are still pouring gasoline on an ugly antisemitic trope long associated with the deceased financier and sex offender.

The president filed a lawsuit in Miami court Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters, according to Reuters. The two journalists named in the lawsuit are likely Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, whose names appeared in the story byline.

"Washington Week" host Jeffrey Goldberg and his panel discuss the Trump administration's approach to the Jeffrey Epstein case. JEFFREY GOLDBERG, THE ATLANTIC, 'WASHINGTON WEEK' HOST: I want, I want to move to the -- I will be revisiting this again,

Trump's entire political career has been based on conspiracies and lies. His base has gobbled it all up. Hook, line and sinker ... until now.