A Since the memo’s release, Hope’s dejection has been a familiar feeling among many in Trump’s MAGA base, which had long promoted conspiracy theories that Democrats and other powerful elites were suppressing incriminating evidence to do with Epstein,

In the days since the Trump administration released a memo on Jeffrey Epstein directly at odds with conspiracy theories pushed by the president and some of his top lieutenants, Donald Trump’s movement and most ardent supporters are in revolt.