Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, August 2nd.

Today on Forbes, the tech mogul behind Trump's Truth Social used to own porn domains.

President Donald Trump's MAGA movement has long been a coalition of strange bedfellows.

On the one hand, there's Trump himself, who once bragged about grabbing women,

quote, by the pussy, and enjoyed a long friendship with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

that revolved around the men's mutual appreciation of, quote, beautiful women. On the other hand,

is a cadre of deeply religious men like former vice president, Mike Pence,

who has said he does not eat alone with women for fear that he might act inappropriately toward

them, and has since been exiled from MAGA, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson,

who once told a Louisiana church group that he used an accountability software called Covenant

Eyes to send reports of his web browsing

to his 17-year-old son to deter him from watching pornography. On porn in particular, Maga struggles

with internal tension. Vice President J.D. Vance wants the government to ban it. So does the Heritage

Foundation, the influential conservative think tank with deep ties to

the Trump White House and Russ Vote, the Project 2025 leader who now serves as Trump's

director of the Office of Management and Budget. One Heritage Foundation legal fellow has called

porn, quote, diabolical. But a close associate of President Donald Trump and a key player in his

social media business, Truth Social, appears to have different views on the adult entertainment

industry. Chris Pavlovsky, CEO and former billionaire founder of the video platform

Rumble, also founded Jokaroo, a company that owned the domains of explicit websites

like pornobrokers.com, lustymaids.com, and milf mansion.com for roughly a decade between 2003 and

2013. Some of the domains owned by Pavlovsky appeared to be offline during the years he owned them.

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