We are currently watching what it is like when Donald Trump’s White House loses control of a narrative, and the truth escapes containment.
From the beginning, when Elon Musk dropped his now-deleted bombshell claim that Trump is “in the Epstein files,” the response from the White House and its supporters in MAGA media has been fascinating. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., abruptly sent lawmakers home early this summer for a month-long break after a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to vote for the Department of Justice to release the files. Upon returning to Capitol Hill last week, Johnson bizarrely claimed Trump was actually an FBI informant spying on Jeffrey Epstein. The president, meanwhile, sued Rupert Murdoch after the Wall Street Journal reported in July on a letter attr