Trump, Epstein and the conspiracy theories consuming Washington

Michael Nelson, the presidential scholar of Rhodes College in Tennessee, said, there is a tendency to reduce complex reality by seeing the brain behind every bad thing, ”he said. “Trump has always played it, and now Epstein scandal is back to him.”

Indeed, Trump encouraged the dark views of the government as the “deep state, and brought him the views that were now difficult to eliminate that the so -called deep state responded to him. Flip-Floping, whether the administration would release Epstein files, fueled a overlap speech not only by Trump’s critics, but by his own allies.

Conspiracy theories have a long place in American history. Many Americans still believe that someone else is a hand to kill President John F. Kennedy, that their landing is fake, the September 11 terrorist attacks are an internal business, or that the government hides the evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in New Mexico, Roswell. Sixty -five percent of Americans told Gallup Strafts that they thought it was a conspiracy behind Kennedy’s assassination in 2023.

It turns out that some conspiracy theories are of course true or have a basis. However, the presidents weren’t often those who spread suspicious stories. On the contrary, they have traditionally seen their roles as eliminating doubts and strengthening the belief in institutions. President Lyndon B. Johnson founded the Warren Commission to investigate the murder of his predecessor, especially in order to prevent rumors and forecasts. (Spoiler warning: did not.)

On the contrary, Trump likes his conspiracy theories, especially those who benefit him, or are stained without taking care of whether they are right to their enemies. “There have been other conspiratorial political movements in the country’s history, Geof said Geoff Dancy, a professor of Toronto University, who taught conspiracy theories. “But they never occupied their upper power levels until the last decade.”

During the 2016 Republican Principles, Trump tied a photo to Kennedy Killing, a senator Ted Cruz from Texas, one of his competitors, with a photo with Lee Harvey Oswald. David Pecker, a one -time citizen during Trump’s Sus Money Case in New York last year National Enquirer Under the oath, he acknowledged that everything was done to harm Cruz and choose Trump.

Reprepantant attached to Fake claims about Obama’s birthplace for years, Trump admitted only at the end of the 2016 campaign, in fact his predecessor was born in the United States. Nevertheless, Trump continued to blame Obama by other false claims, as well as spying him. At one point, Trump spread the claim that Osama bin Laden was not actually dead and that Obama and Biden’s seal team killed 6. Likewise, he accused a television randomly accused the murder anchor.

Peter S. Kalikow American Presidency Center Director Meena Bose, Hofstra University American Presidency Center Director Meena Bose said, “Recently, about the 2016 elections, the latest 2016 elections, there is no parallel to American politics,” he said.

“The allegations of the presidency without real foundations weaken the confidence of the public in the political system and provide dangerous difficulties to the constitutional principles and the rule of law, especially if not subject to checks by other institutions.”

Conspiracy theories are not exclusive protection of Trump and political right. Pennsylvania last month developed the idea that the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler was staged to make the entire gravitational candidate a political martyr once again on the left.

Some democrats now dived into the head of Epstein fire, suddenly, as they piled up to Trump and maximized their political problems, only weeks ago, the party’s priority list was implemented by a closed case. Roy Black, Epstein’s defense lawyer, died at the age of 80 last week, on the case of Furore, some suspicious timing on the left.

America’s conspiracy frenzy has recently withdrawn to foreign allies. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed a case of insulting for claiming that French First Lady was actually a man in Delaware against Candace Owens, a far -right Youtube commentator known for antisemitic rhetoric last week.

However, Trump confused the plot pot more than other major political figures. Within six months since he seized the office, he remarkable Cavalier in proposing treacherous schemes when he arranged some of them.

Although the country’s gold reserves in Fort Knox may be missing, probably whether it was real, being president and what they were all, he suggested that he resurrected the assumption of a decades of eaves for decades. “If the gold is not there, we will be very upset,” he said to the journalists.

In order to explode the bubble and guarantee the Americans that the country’s reserves were not stolen, the treasury secretary was absolutely not compliant Scott Bessent. “All gold is available and explained,” he said to an interviewer.

Trump, Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

However, Trump has gone beyond the simple theory floating to make his own alternative reality official government policy. Under the Second Trump, some applicants were asked whether Trump really won the 2020 election; Those who answered the wrong answers did not help business expectations, forced the rooted ones to decide that the manufacturing would not be swallowed to win business.

Trump also claimed that Biden was so diminished towards the end of his time that he signed an amnesty without knowledge of his assistants using a autopen. Biden certainly showed age symptoms, but the automatic story assumption. When asked that he did not reveal the proof, Trump said, “You know, I revealed the human mind. I was in a discussion with the human mind and I didn’t think he knew what he was doing.” He said.

Last week, he apparently saw a fusillat of conspiracy theories, which apparently draw attention to the Epstein case. Tulsi Gabbard, the chief of intelligence of the President, who was assigned politically appointed, multiplied the investigation of Obama’s 2016 election intervention and revealed inflamed allegations that organized a bir a coup and betrayal conspiracy that lasted for years ”. He also claimed that he was in the “daily heavy calming regime during the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton.

Based on this, Trump accused Obama for “betrayal ,, and claimed that his predecessor should go far enough to publish a false video showing that his predecessor had been handcuffed in the oval office and put it behind the bars. The idea of publishing such an image of another president of a president was once seen as a shocking manners and justice system, but during the Trump period, it became a simple business as usual.

For all this, the initial conspiracy theorist could not shake the Epstein case, which reflects the rise of the Qanon movement, which believes that America’s devil tapped pedophiles were ruled by a cabin. Most of the files that the Chief Public Prosecutor said to him includes his name, not published, bringing a maga conservatives and an unexpected alliance of liberal democrats.

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Although Trump fell later, he was well known that he was friends with Epstein. Therefore, it is not clear what his name can actually mean in files. But Trump is not someone to retreat. Last week, he asked if his name was said to be in the files, Trump again pointed to his conspiracy finger elsewhere.

“These files were created by comey,” he said to journalists, Epstein referred to the FBI director James Comey, whom he had fired more than two years ago before he died in prison in 2019. “They were created by Biden administration.”

Theories are endless.

This article emerged at the beginning New York Times.

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