MAGA loyalists livid over JD Vance's interview with Megyn Kelly

President Trump personally announced and helped organize the event as part of America's 250th anniversary celebrations.

Here are five details that have emerged in the case.

1. Thomas believed Trump was shielding a baby-eating Epstein cabal.
According to a federal charging document, Thomas told investigators he believes the government "is run by an elite group of individuals who sacrifice and consume infants who also were deeply involved with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and are now protected by President Donald Trump."

Thomas also "places some of the responsibility of this corruption of government with Jewish people and blames them and Israel for the current war with Iran."

2. Co-defendant Proper kept a journal naming roughly 46 targets and described child sacrifice to a demonic figure.
Agents recovered a journal from Proper's room in which he wrote that the government sought to "sacrifice children and others to a demonic figure." The journal contained a list of roughly 46 names — celebrities and politicians.

His family told investigators he had been making sympathetic comments about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and posting anti-Semitic content on Facebook.

3. The plot was funded by graduation money — and nearly by panhandling.
Proper allegedly spent roughly $3,000 of his graduation money on body armor, an AR-style rifle, a bullpup shotgun painted with an American flag, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. When an alleged co-conspirator said the group needed $1,300 for "the drones and the charges," Thomas said he was broke and suggested someone "…hold a sign by the freeway saying 'fund the freedom fighters.'"

4. Proper was hospitalized after saying he wanted to join law enforcement to kill people.
A hospital application filed by police after being called to his home detailed that he "had been thinking about joining the military or police force with the goal of being able to kill people."

5. His mom called the cops — and unraveled everything.
Proper's mother phoned police on June 10 after growing alarmed by her son's weapons purchases and online activity. She later told investigators she believed the group was "using religion to manipulate" her son.

Trump's administration has lost the aggressive maximalism of last year, when it threatened invasions of Greenland and Panama, disappeared migrants into torture prisons, and deployed the National Guard to cities.

Courts have blocked numerous initiatives, and compliant Republicans continue obstructing legislative priorities.

Eggers contends Trump now focuses on symbolic gestures — naming buildings after himself and painting monuments — rather than substantive policy implementation.

While Trump intends to target 2026 and 2028 elections, his current strategy relies on distracting spectacles from White House UFC events rather than advancing his agenda, the analysis said.

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David Axelrod, a Democratic political strategist and former Obama White House official, said, "The metaphor leaps out at you."

Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg agreed, explaining the imagery of the slimy Reflecting Pool fits Trump's failed campaign promise to "drain the swamp," but instead he's caught up in "the ballroom, this thing, the UFC fight."

Hunt laid out the metaphor more, saying, "The president spent a lot of money on this, saying it was going to look a certain way. Now, obviously it doesn't."

She added that instead of draining the swamp, the high-priced Reflecting Pool renovations and the White House ballroom reveal "a president that is focused on his own legacy in many ways, when Americans are struggling."