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 responds to a 14-second clip from his podcast that went viral this week, where he said: "I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being. I'm gonna trust my friends in the administration and the government to do what needs to be done.

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,