Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and The F.B.I. Files
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Some of the most influential voices in right-wing media are rejecting Trump’s call to stop wasting “time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein.”
The problem with a conspiracy theory is, of course, the more you talk about it, the more interest people take in it. The whole thing is born of distrust — so who wants to listen to someone telling them there’s nothing to see, even if that someone is Trump himself?
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he described in a 1964 Harper’s Magazine analysis of the use of loose facts and pseudo-facts to build an alternative reality for political ends.
The FBI and DOJ said they do not plan to make future public disclosures related to their review of Epstein's case, stoking outrage among Trump's most vocal supporters.
FBI director Kash Patel was adamant that “the conspiracy theories just aren’t true” amid a brewing MAGA firestorm over notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Last week, an FBI and Justice Department memo concluded Epstein didn’t have a “client list,
Conservative commentator Rogan O’Handley, who goes by DC_Draino online and participated in a Trump administration photo op in February holding binders labeled “The Epstein Files,” on Monday called the memo part of a “shameful chapter” in the country’s history.
An alleged list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients — and whether or not it even exists — is dividing President Donald Trump's supporters.
It’s been six years since sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while incarcerated, but his crimes—and his relationship with President Donald Trump—continues to loom large. Trump and several top allies are facing intense pushback from his MAGA base over his handling of files related to the Epstein case,