The leading voices at the Maga Base of President Donald Trump, who had been critical during the days of the president’s management and the administration of the Epstein archives, are now gathering the defense of Trump after a story in the Wall Street Journal, and are celebrating the movement of the administration to free the great testimony of the jury, potentially cooling the reaction among their supporters.
The administration angered many of Trump’s supporters when he announced last week that he would not launch any additional file about Jeffrey Epstein, the Rico Financial and the sentenced sexual offender who died for suicide in jail in 2019, after promising him before.
Before joining the administration, Trump’s reinforcements such as Kash Patel and Dan Bongino had fueled conspiracy theories about a “client list” of Epstein that supposedly included the names of rich democratic elites. But elevated to leadership positions in the FBI, both Patel and Bongino signed a memorandum that indicated that there was no such list, angry at some of Trump’s most vowel followers.
That changed on Thursday, when the Wall Street Journal published a letter that alleged that Trump had sent Epstein in 2003 for his 50th birthday. ABC News has not been able to confirm the existence of the letter.
Trump, who had been friendly with Epstein for about 15 years before they had a drop in 2004, denied the Journal that he had written the letter, and on Friday he filed a demand for defamation against the document claiming damage of not less than $ 10 billion.
Trump’s main supporters joined next to the president.
After the Journal article, Maga Voices who had been some of Trump’s most vowel critics during the last week, including Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson and even Elon Musk hurried to defend the president.
Posobiec, a Maga podcaster who had been one of the loudest voices that pushed Epstein’s theme, told the former Trump Steve Bannon advisor: “We are very back. We are all shooting all the cylinders. The Maga Movement is completely united behind this fight.”
President Donald Trump raises his fist while adding Air Force One, when he goes to Pennsylvania, in the joint base Andrews, Maryland, on July 15, 2025.
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“We have to be offensive all the time,” Bannon told his online audience, saying Trump, “they tried to destroy it.”
Trump also announced Thursday that he was asking the attorney general Pam Bondi to “produce each and every one of the testimonies of the relevant grand jury, subject to the approval of the Court” with respect to the case of Epstein, which caused compliments of supporters who had been pressing for the release of more Epstein’s material.
Johnson, another podcast magic, tweeted “victory” in response to the news.
Kirk, in his program, urged his viewers to “thank President Trump” for pressing his administration to release the testimony.
“Then, for any of you at the audience that you were a bit uncomfortable, that you were a little anxious, I think it is morally incumbent of you to thank President Trump, thanks for taking a step forward and for doing this,” Kirk said. “Thanks to President Trump, for complying with what you said you were going to do, because he deserves credit.”
The history of the Journal seems to have redirected the criticism of the magician supporters and unify them against a family objective: the media. But if the change of support will be kept it is not clear. While figures such as Kirk and Bannon have framed the promise of the grand jury as a great victory, the release of the testimony itself could take time, since officials must first evaluate their impact on the victims and then win the approval of a federal judge.
And because the transcripts of the Grand Jury represent only a small fraction of the files in Epstein, it is not clear if the content will satisfy the members of the Trump base that have been demanding the release of all Epstein materials. The last time the Administration published files related to Epstein in February, the movement caused more questions and contributed to the violent reaction that the president and his administration are still dealing with today.
For now, however, Kirk said in his program that “it was very fun to see” the magician base that met around Trump after the publication of the history of the Journal.
Apparently, to underline the point, Kirk opened his program with a fragment of the presentation of Joe Cocker of the song “With a little help from my friends”, in an apparent wink and a wink to the story that helps unite the Maga Movement behind the president once again.
