I found this in the replies to a Laura Loomer tweet denouncing Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein case. This particular reply is more revealing of the MAGA mindset than all the New York Times diner safaris and Trump-voter focus groups combined.
For much of MAGA, there aren't multiple conspiracies. There's just one big conspiracy: the Deep State runs everything, and Donald Trump is tasked by God with dismantling it and bringing the malefactors to judgment.
According to this worldview, the Deep State created the COVID vaccines (and COVID) in order to kill and maim people. The vaccines are the "Covid fucking bioweapons / Still going into infants and moms."
The same Deep Staters, according to MAGA, are involved in the trafficking of children. Some in MAGA think the primary purpose of border crossing by the undocumented is "the Great Replacement" of white voters with brown voters, and white babies with brown babies -- but our tweeter seems to believe that the main purpose is child exploitation. And it's understandable that he believes this: as CBS reported last December:
President-elect Donald Trump claimed in his Person of the Year interview with Time magazine this week that President Biden's administration lost track of more than 300,000 migrant children who crossed the border unaccompanied, saying many of them are in danger or dead. But experts say he's distorting the facts.In fact, as the CBS story notes, the period during which ICE didn't serve notices to appear in court to 291,000 immigrant children, and 32,000 who received notices failed to appear, was from 2019 to 2023. During half of that time, Donald Trump was president. Also, no notices would have been issued to those applying for asylum or legal status. And some are probably safe but the bureaucracy lost track of them. But to our tweeter, they're all in danger, and it's all Biden's fault. (Everyone in MAGA believes that Biden was a sinister tool of the Deep State, or was controlled by tools of the Deep State -- Barack Obama working remotely? Staffers wielding the evil autopen?)
"We have 325,000 children here during Democrats — and this was done by Democrats — who are right now slaves, sex slaves or dead," Trump said. "And what I will be doing will be trying to find where they are and get them back to their parents."
Trump repeated similar claims on the campaign trail, and Republicans, including Trump's appointed "border czar" Tom Homan, have echoed similar figures as they call for increased border security.
And I assume that the reference to Netanyahu stems from a belief that the Deep State is bad because the Deep State is very Jewish, and that Benjamin Netanyahu persuaded Trump to bomb Iran on Jews' behalf, not merely Israel's. This dovetails with the widespread belief that Jeffrey Epstein worked for Mossad. Tucker Carlson believes this, and talked at length about this belief last night:
“It’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy had direct connections to a foreign government. No one’s allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel, because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that’s naughty,” he said at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida.And it's not just Carlson:
Wow. Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk just openly pondered if Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent on Turning Point of all places.
— Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) July 12, 2025
The red pill is spreading like wildfire. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/8V1R2wY7h5
The problem for Trump now is that his voters have been led to believe that the Epstein client list and the Deep State are exactly the same thing. You and I believe that Epstein procured underage girls for wealthy and influential people, some of whom we don't agree with politically, some of whom we do, and some of whom have no strong political opinions at all. MAGA believes that Epstein was a procurer only for people MAGA hates, and that the entire Deep State was in on this, because child exploitation is central to how the rich and powerful operate.
Trump and the rest of the GOP spread this idea for years, or at least encouraged its spread, by cozying up to QAnon and frequently invoking the notion of the Deep State. Millions of Trump voters fervently believe in this vast conspiracy. Not only do they believe that Trump is a superhero who can crush the conspiracy, they believe crushing this conspiracy is his life's mission. Trump and the party established unrealistic expectations for their voters -- and now they're beginning to pay the price for that.