There is a larger problem for Trump in the Epstein chaos
Ezra Klein starts One of his last podcasts is saying a joke that made tours. Basically, a conspiracy theorist dies and rises to heaven. God is there to greet him, and as a part of the celestial welcome, he explains that the man will answer any question he has.
“Please, I have to know the answer to this,” says, “Who killed John F. Kennedy?” God answers instantly, “This is easy: Lee Harvey Oswald.” Shock, the man murmurs, “This is higher than I think!”
This is the dilemma that Donald Trump found himself. Jeffrey deepens doubts, including those related to two men’s relationships, no matter what he does to mislead and disturb him from Epstein Morass.
Lately Reuters/IPSOS SURVEY69% of Americans, including 62% of Republicans, believe that the government hides the alleged customer list of Epstein. This is understandable; There is a question about Epstein that hasn’t been answered too much. How did he do it be very rich? What is there mountains Computer files and videos recovered from their homes and properties? Because it already tried to commit suicide Once in prison once, why wasn’t it properly watched later?
But there is a bigger problem for Trump. Since the charges of “Bire” against Barack Obama, he encouraged, raided and won a conspiracy theory wave that accused the deep situation of all kinds of crimes that were quickly dealt with.
Now he presides the state and controls all secrets. Why not explain them?
Conspiracy theories have a long and rich history in the United States. Americans -lived As the second -class citizens of the British Empire, it is far from the center of authority in London. Them imagined In London, all kinds of parcels come out of eggs to keep them ast and slavery. This became a historian Richard Hofstadter in 1964 named Masons, Catholics, Jews, bankers and communists’ periodic explosions of rabies fear of rabies “paranoid style in American politics”.
Joseph McCarthy defined the modern age of the conspiracy theory, claiming that the American government was seized by traitors and spies for foreign powers.
Journalist Anna Merlan updated the story in his book “Lies Republic ında, which is deeply reported that conspiracy theories have entered the mainstream politics in the last decade. Unlike previous periods, conspiracy theorists are mostly weak foreigners, now the central and increasingly normalized figures in American political and cultural life.
Donald Trump is the main character of this story, came to power and returns to power after encouraging birth fraud and many other conspiracy aggressively. In addition, such as Alex Jones and Kash Patel, the mainstream trafficking with more theories and implication brought to people. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Advisor, Lies Hillary Clinton is connected to children’s sex rings.
Difficulty for Trump, Anti-Statism and Anti-Elitism for a long time ventilated the flames, now sits in the White House and runs the state and elite. The management has published thousands of files about their murders. JFK– Robert F. Kennedy And Martin Luther King JR.
There was no cigarette weapon that revealed any large conspiracy, but no one in the administration can bring themselves to accept it. It will show that previous administrations and elite do not actually lie to the American people. But to do this is to lose reliability with its base.
Trump is an artistic politician who knows how to handle his base. But this time it proves it is difficult for her – maybe clearly a kind of relationship With Epstein. He tried to mislead attention by cultivating other conspiracy theories – essentially Obama Organize a coup against him.
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden made old claims. But they all have a feeling of helplessness about them.
Like Charlie Warzel Notes in AtlanticOn July 20, when the questions about Epstein increased, Trump published 33 times on real Social. He wanted Washington Commanders Football Team Change your name back to Redskins and a Video created by AI Obama’s handcuffs in front of a smiling trump card by FBI in Oval Office.
FBI Director Patel, recently Joe Rogan podcast He found a hidden vault in the FBI full of dark secrets that no one has seen. Forget Epstein, they say; It turns out that there are hundreds of conspiracy theories to shake in front of the magazine loyalty.
Trump’s wild response to the Epstein event will probably deepen the insecurity of the people to institutions and politicians, create more online radicalization, and further frustrated our polarized political ecosystem. But if he doesn’t consume it for the first time, he plays with fires that burn him badly.
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