Conservative commentator Candace Owens decried the scandal as a “terminal cancer to the MAGA movement.” Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued: “The fact that the U.S. government, the one that I voted for, refused to take my question seriously and instead said, ‘Case closed, shut up conspiracy theorist,’ was too much for me.”

President Donald Trump says he doesn’t know about a lewd letter bearing his name that the Wall Street Journal reported was included in a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein. The July 17 story described a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003,