Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and The F.B.I. Files
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The debate over a federal investigation into the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein continues to stir. But why? A journalist and conspiracy theory expert joined Scripps News to explain.
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.
A Fox News reporter held White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s feet to the fire on Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday. A day after President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social that MAGA supporters fixated on the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax” were “buying into bulls--t,
On July 6, a bombshell dropped on the MAGAverse. Axios reported via leaked Department of Justice documents that the government investigation found no mystery in the death by suicide of disgraced society pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and that he kept no client list.
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -For years, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies benefited from conspiracy theories that fueled the conservative MAGA movement and targeted his political enemies.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Tuesday pushed for the Trump administration to release files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “and let the chips fall where they may.” “This is why people don’t trust government.
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?
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a "product of one or more elements of the intelligence community," Eric Weinstein, the mathematician and a former managing director of Thiel Capital, said during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett.