President Donald Trump’s base vigorously defended him in the wake of a Thursday Wall Street Journal report that he wrote a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, with some claiming the alleged letter doesn’t sound like the president.

Charlie Kirk, on his show Wednesday, told President Trump that the MAGA base is interested in the Epstein story for proof of corruption, not to go after him. CHARLIE KIRK, 'CHARLIE KIRK SHOW' HOST: I don't want to move past all this intrigue over the Epstein files,

A few thousand people—locals and students at this public university outside Los Angeles—had gathered on a campus lawn to watch Charlie Kirk debate anyone who would challenge him. Many of them knew Mr Kirk,