Toward the end of his 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump asserted that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still not lose voters. He is currently testing his luck. On July 7, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation effectively ended its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Trump applauded the decision, wondering aloud why anyone even cared about Epstein in the first place.
The Make America Great Again movement is unusually divided on the administration’s handling of Epstein. The first fracture in Trump’s movement came from former FOX News host Tucker Carlson . The massively popular podcaster mocked the idea that Epstein acted alone before publicly warning the president against accepting the Department of Justice’s findings. Leading con