Karl Rove in WSJ, connecting the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein drama to election-related conspiracy theories:

Other conspiracies await action by the White House….

Team Trump could produce evidence that confirms the conspiracy advocates were right. They could reveal just how the 2020 election was stolen—computers in Europe, miscounted ballots, phony election returns, etc.—and identify the Deep State agents who conceived this crime against our democracy and bring them to justice. Team Trump could also produce the evidence that Jan. 6 was a Deep State plot to discredit the president by causing law-abiding Americans to breach police lines and storm the Capitol.

But in truth there is no “there” in either case. Neither happened. Years have passed, yet there has been no real evidence or successful court case proving the vast conspiracies around the 2020 election or Jan 6.

However, if Team Trump admits the election wasn’t stolen and government agents didn’t organize the Capitol assault, MAGA conspiracy theorists would be furious and the president’s base further weakened and fractured.