The Revolt Over the Epstein Files Is Snowballing
President Donald Trump is leaving a White House in the White House’s state dining room on July 14, 2025 after lunch.
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Here is something about conspiracy theories: once you hold it, No return. And when you add a political ideology to them and Donald Trump Baş throw, they metastasize at a speed beyond control.
Trump clearly flirted with almost every great conspiracy theory of the last half century and defended one of the most recklessly with his insistence. unvumable The 2020 elections were stolen. Add this to the last one of Trumpist Legions: Magaverse rejects the truth about the billionaire of the registered sex criminals Jeffrey Epstein If only Trump was controlled by state secrets, he lived after years of an epiphanic promised for years and died.
Like so many things that turned into a headache for Trump, it began with a quick chase chasing without thinking about how it could end. Epstein epic has become a snowball competition Maga Mountain has lost the capacity of the president to stop. Is it right to get the snowball right? They are some of the highest profile members of the management that they characterize as a dangerous conspiracy to be revealed before.
However, there are signs that Maga Kerfuffle may be different from what was previously. The slit of the maga movement is pronounced. Trump’s base may not easily pass to the next cultural war war or the bright conspiracy theory. This can be echoed beyond the next year’s midterm exam and beyond the second half of Trump’s era.
Old Trump Strategist Steve Bannon It is warned that 10% of Trump supporters may be flawed because they feel short -modified and perhaps cost a dozen chairs in next November.
Even those who look at the 2028 campaign take feed and weigh in a sign that it holds almost everything. “Release Epstein files and let the chips fall to where they can be. Nikki Haley published on x. “You can never go wrong by being transparent. He cannot refuse the names of the victims, but release the rest.” And Charlie Kirk, who managed the populist Turning Point USA power center with young Maga activists and played plenty of content from the Epstein epic, adopted an approach that suddenly adopted and spoke about it.
Let’s wrap the band back. Epstein was at the center of the super -rich and customized people’s network, who was said to be exploited from young women and girls as part of a sex trade plan that was said to have a series of brave -faced names. Epstein a For more than ten years, friendDoubt about Mar-A-Lago, which is regularly regular in campaign rallies and online publications.
In 2008, Epstein was found guilty of accusing two state crimes in Florida, paid compensation to three dozen victims and registered as a sex criminal. Ten years later, Epstein was not found guilty of many charges in New York, including sex smuggling.
Epstein died in a Manhattan prison cell in 2019; Authorities committed suicide, but many Trump fan was convinced that Epstein had been killed to protect hyper -linked internalists who may have been affected if they opened their old friends. After all, there is a missing video in the images of the night door, which is said to have killed himself.
(Epstein’s ex -girlfriend and assistant Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of federal sex smuggling and conspiracy charges in 2021. He was accused of helping Epstein’s recruitment and abuse. He was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment).
Trump implied that he was an Epstein customer list for years. For weeks until the second period of Trump, the Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi announced that it was on his desk, and the Maga impressive was given to the binders of the documents they waved for the cameras. (These binders did not carry a real bomb, only the documents that were already there.) However, last week, Bondi and his other friends Kash Patel and Dan Bongino – FBI’da director and assistant – Epstein another explanation, the case and sacrifice office more determined, the appropriate investigation office, “not appropriate” ”He said in a common statement.
The note went like a bomb at the President’s political base. Trump’s biggest boosters, former president Barack Obama, who left the post in early 2017, and the “crooked Hillary olmadan, which has been written by Clinton since 2013, said that Bondi was asked about the Epstein files during a cabinet meeting last week. Later, he opened a social media rent that told his supporters to support the public.
Trump understands the power of rumor and the unpredictable nature of the spark beam. Ten years ago, he fed the wrong and racist issue in which Obama was not born in the United States and therefore an illegitimate president. John F. Kennedy’s assassination files, brother Robert F. Kennedy and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. He promised to publish together with. In 9/11, he promised to publish the Muslims who included Muslims, which he claimed as famous without a real foundation, in the Metro New York today. He’s similarly proposed Someone needs to control Fort Knox for loss of gold.
Trump is now faced with this ugly reality: he promised the goods and either there are no goods or potentially embarrassing to himself or his friends. In both cases, he triggered his allies managed by the conspiracy in a way we did not see it in the first period.
Agitator Laura Loomer – a conspiracy theorist accompanying Trump settled in zero on the 9/11 anniversary last year – call So that Bondi cannot boot L’Affair epstein. Meanwhile, Loomer suggested to take him out of his desk and put him to a special grinding. Another impressive, Benny Johnson, proposed Trump’s Law-Sipariş team pulled former president Bill Clinton to question. And Bonino, who spent years selling Epstein Innuendo and Nuendo for years, was so angry that they were so palpi that they clashed in Bondi and the West wing and jumped to work while thinking of quitting a job he had clearly hated on Friday.
In their own name, the democrats carefully capital city On the turmoil of the opposition party. On Monday night, they forced to vote at the Parliamentary Rules Committee to ask for the release of Epstein files, and led the republicans of the committee to prevent Trump to invalidate Trump. House, the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters on Monday that what he knows about Epstein about Epstein, the Ministry of Justice, said that they could go behind their efforts to force Epstein to give a more comprehensive accounting, or that they had lied to the goods before, or that they were lying before. For now, the Democrats are happy to help a crisis rolling this snowball and allow Trump to take a tour of the great internal legislation from a moment to take a tour of victory.
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