Kash Patel, Jeffrey Epstein and MAGA
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FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend has fired back after right-wing conspiracy theorists accused her of covering up bombshells about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Alexis Wilkins, a 26-year-old country singer,
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.
The podcast king takes a cryptic shot at Trump and the Justice Department, reigniting suspicions of a government cover-up in the Epstein saga.
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.
If you live by the sword, you die by the sword — and if you live by conspiracy theories, you’ll probably choke on them. So it should come as no surprise that President Trump and his administration now find themselves in the awkward position of having to play the grown-ups and talk their own
The majority of the Epstein conspiracy theorizing is actually a coping mechanism to avoid grappling with the fact that most rapists get away with it.
Next the DOJ will say ‘Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed,'” complained Alex Jones. “This systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list,’” the memo reads. “There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.
Sexual misconduct, allegations of abuse of power and a MacGuffin in the form of a notorious list are not the only shared elements in the stories of the two elite New York felons.
Rachel Maddow points out how the Trump admin. is suddenly backtracking on previous claims that Jeffrey Epstein had a "client list," thus representing a public walk-back of a theory the administration had helped promote.
Bill O'Reilly joins NewsNation to discuss the Trump administration's push to defuse conspiracy theories surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. O'Reilly says the Trump administration is stumbling as it seeks to unwind new details about the Epstein case,