Trump Deflect from Epstein Files by Releasing Martin Luther King Files, Connection? None
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No one is better than Trump on Originating crazy stories that do not connect to any truth. Usually when that happens he wants his base to pay attention to where he is pointing and ignoring something true and important like what Tariffs do to your checkbook. Now instead of releasing the Epstein. files he is releasing Martin Luther King Files, why same reason to deflect. I will bet you that one of the parts that will be highlighted is when the FBI noted Mr. King had been unfaithful. King never said he was a prophet or a saint. He was a preacher making the point his people were being treated very different from whites in this country. The FBI did tell his wife through pictures they sent to make trouble for Mr. King. How stupid could they be!
Most Americans went through that and saw that movie. What we all want to see how many times they have to redact Trumps name or pictures with underage girls is what we want to see next. Epstein had a prostitute ring except he made the underage girls prostitutes before they understood what they were doing because they were underage age girls. Trump was his customer and paid like everyone else. Epstein kept tapes of everything to make sure people paid. So to say he went tp the island 3 or 12 times to take the sun, he could have the sun in Florida where he also was seen with very young girls and even his wifi ehe saw there after seeing her at the Kit kat club. Adam Gonzalez
Many ardent Donald Trump supporters are turning on the president due to his administration’s treatment of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and one columnist thinks she knows why.
Trump has lashed out at his base for its anger that he won’t release files about the late sex trafficker that the administration has long been dangling in front of supporters. He has continued to try to convince people to forget about Epstein, despite the fact that the MAGA world has been obsessed with the case for years and despite the fact that Trump, himself, has fueled that obsession.
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“The president’s confusion over why this matters to his base is understandable,” wrote Salon’s Amanda Marcotte. “MAGA voters have made it abundantly clear that they do not care about sexual abuse. They didn’t care when a tape of Trump bragging about sexual assault was released in 2016. They didn’t care when he was found liable for sexual assault by a civil jury in 2023. They don’t mind that Trump goes out of his way to associate with men accused of sex crimes… So why do they care about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, or the identities of his alleged co-conspirators?”
Marcotte emphasized that the biggest difference between Epstein’s case and the others is the victims’ ages.
“Alleged or otherwise, the victims of Trump and most of his buddies were adult women… Epstein, however, abused underage girls. In that narrow space between abuse of adults and pedophilia, the MAGA masses have found their moral absolution,” she wrote.
“Despite their acceptance of misogynist violence, they still get to be the ‘good guys’ because they draw the line at raping minors. By being very loudly against pedophilia, they can recast themselves as the heroes, ignoring all the other villainous behavior, including their love of a man who boasted about how he grabs unsuspecting women by their genitals.”
She emphasized that Trump is of course baffled by all of this since he “has never shown any sign of having a conscience” and “likely can’t imagine how his supporters might be suppressing feelings of guilt for their complicity in backing a sexual predator.”
She described Epstein conspiracy theories as “a coping mechanism” for many Trump supporters.
“Yes, a civil jury found that Trump assaulted journalist E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room,” she wrote. “But if Trump voters tell each other Bill Clinton is on the mythical ‘Epstein client list’ and is about to be arrested for pedophilia, they can believe Democrats are worse.”
She said Trumpers can feel like they are fighting for young girls by demanding the release of the Epstein files, even though Kristi Noem mismanaged rescue efforts in the Texas floods that killed dozens of kids. They can feel like they are protecting children even though Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy is an anti-vaxxer because they believe Bill Gates is a child molester, she posited.
“MAGA needs Epstein conspiracies, and the movement will accept no substitute,” Marcotte continued. “This craving for moral absolution is why. One of the most defining features of the Trump era has been the culture war over sexual abuse.”
She emphasized that MAGA voters are “on the wrong side of history” in siding with sexual abusers time and time again,
“But you can’t be a warrior for rape culture day in and day out without starting to ask yourself, ‘Am I the baddie?'” she said. “That’s where Epstein and his imaginary client list come in. By hating on Epstein and fantasizing about political enemies being on the ‘list,’ MAGA gets to play at being the heroes for once. Better yet, they can do so without the risk of bringing actual predators to justice, a precedent they don’t want to establish lest it come for their leaders. After all, Epstein is dead, and his ‘list’ only existed in their fevered imaginations.”
Marcotte acknowledged that the Department of Justice probably does have some unreleased files and videos about the Epstein case and that not everything related to this is a conspiracy theory.
Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors. While the medical examiner determined that his death was a suicide, many people, especially on the right, do not believe that it was, instead asserting that he was killed to keep him silent about the clients for whom he found children to sexually abuse.
Many officials associated with Trump had spent years repeating the same rumors, and Trump himself said repeatedly in 2024 that the “Epstein list” needed to be released.
In February, Attorney General Bondi said that she was reviewing “a lot of names” related to the Epstein investigation and said that the Epstein list is “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
But last week, the Department of Justice released a memo that said there was no “secret client list” and reaffirmed the 2019 finding that Epstein died by suicide. Many Trump supporters were outraged that the rumored client list wouldn’t be released, while many on the left speculated that the reason Bondi wasn’t releasing it is because Trump himself – or at least high-ranking members of his administration – is on it.
Trump had a decades-long friendship with Epstein and joked about how his friend was “fun” and “terrific” and liked women “on the younger side.” Trump has also been found liable for sexual abuse by a jury, has admitted to sexually assaulting women in the past, and has admitted to walking in on underage girls as they changed clothes. He has been accused of sexual assault or other forms of sexual impropriety by at least 27 women.
House Democrats have tried twice this week to introduce measures to get Bondi to release documents associated with the investigation into Epstein, with Republicans blocking the measures, fueling speculation online that Republicans are protecting either Trump or other administration officials who may have sexually abused children in connection with Epstein.
But one thing remains clear: Team MAGA is not happy with how things are going, and for once, they are not letting Trump distract them with something else.
“Trump thought nothing would get in the way of his base’s loyalty to him,” wrote Marcotte. “But it may be that the one thing that will rattle their faith is this stark reminder that he’s always been the villain, and they are his accomplices.”
By Molly Sprayregen
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