A group of 15 MAGA influencers were thanked for their loyalty to Donald Trump on Thursday with an Oval Office visit, new hats, and a binder supposedly filled with once-classified documents about Jeffrey Epstein.
The group, which included the likes of Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik and DC Draino’s Rogan O’Handley, walked out of their meeting with Trump in high spirits—holding up white binders that were emblazoned with the DOJ’s seal and filled with Epstein-related documents.
Some, like Raichik, even flashed a big smile for photographers as they held up their binders, drawing the ire of many online who noted they were possessing information tied to the alleged rape and sex trafficking of children.
Many, like the conservative comedian Chad Prather, followed up their visits with giddy posts about their access to the president—only to be met with outrage that they were now gatekeeping information about Epstein by not immediately releasing what their binders held. Prather called the binder a “souvenir.” His own supporters trashed him in the comments.
Among those given a binder and meeting with Trump was the podcaster Liz Wheeler, the right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec, right-wing sports journalist Emily Austin, right-wing activist Scott Presler, and the conservative newsletter writer Jessica Reed Kraus.
Kraus revealed after the event that Trump had also handed out red hats that read in all caps, “Trump was right about everything.” She said there had been 15 influencers in total and that the president credited them with his election victory in November.
Some questioned if those who received a binder were also handed talking points by the White House. Their posts about their Oval Office meeting used similar language, with at least three calling Trump’s White House, verbatim, the “most transparent administration in history.”
The group’s cheery posts were quickly followed by livestreams and photos of what was actually inside the binders—an answer to overwhelming outcry from supporters that demanded it was their duty to share.
MAGA firebrand Laura Loomer, who was not invited to the gathering, was among a number of figures on the right who were peeved with how things went down.
“Fire the dumba-- who botched the influencer release of the Epstein Files today,” she wrote on X.
Even the right-wing provocateur Kaitlin Bennet—famous for traveling to college campuses and riling up liberal students in slanted interviews—was bugged by how her fellow conservatives carried themselves.
“The smiling Epstein-files photo op reveals something deeply sad about our country,” she said. “How many people actually care about the victims, and how many just want to gossip about celebrities? This isn’t a TV show. There were real victims, many who were children.”
A self-described “Christian constitutionalist” with 53,000 followers on X and Trump as her cover photo posted that she was so bothered by how the influencers bragged about their access, she had unfollowed her ideological partners.
“Just unfollowed every large influencer that held up the fake Epstein documents and smiled,” she wrote, adding, “I’m over it.”
That sentiment carried over across the political aisle, too.
The influencer known as the RealHousewifeOfMichigan called the group of influencers “a--hats” who had turned the White House into a “circus.”
