From CNN.com, Epstein Fallout poses a loyalty test, Trump or MAGA.

CNN writes, and the days since the Trump admin released a memo about Epstein directly at odds with conspiracy theories pushed by the president and some of his top lieutenants, Trump's movement in most ardent supporters are in revolt.

The Justice Department and the FBI released a memo last week, including there was no

evidence that Epstein had a list of powerful men who participated in his alleged underworld

of sex trafficking and pedophilia.

It has also said that disgraced former financier died by suicide and was not murdered in his

New York jail cell.

Yet after years of big promises to the president's base, the memo failed to produce a

smoking gun, undercutting Trump in his team's own words.

And Maga World isn't happy, pitting the president's closest allies against one another.

With Trump defending the findings, situation has set up an unprecedented loyalty test between

the president and the movement he created.

Now, I want to pause with these conspiracy theories.

You can see already CNN front-loading the story, poisoning the well.

It is not a conspiracy theory that Epstein was engaged in these behaviors because, well,

Pam Bondi said he was.

Geelaine Maxwell was charged for it, and so was Epstein.

We know that Virginia Jewfrey was a witness and made claims about Prince Andrew, who was also accused.

None of that is a conspiracy theory.

That is a pattern of behavior factually reported in the press

far and wide. The question is to what extent? Recently, I should say in recent history,

Cash Patel, before entering as FBI director, stated that the FBI has Epstein's black book. Definitively, he stated it.

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