Shortly after his notorious disagreement with Donald TrumpElon Musk used his social network, X, to try hurt the president where it could hurt the most. In one of his many spiteful posts, the former richest man in the world claimed that his former boss in the White House “was involved in Epstein’s papers.”
However, The blow barely had any effect. Everyone considered it as a personal revenge and, apart from that, the relationship between Trump and Epstein was already sufficiently documented without needing Musk to inform us of anything.
The issue here is to try to understand the “Epstein Papers” mysticism among MAGA supporters and, by extension, Donald Trump. For years, the so-called “alt-right,” addicted to dark internet forums and Q-Anon-type conspiracy groups, had accusing senior members of the Democratic Party and Hollywood elites to participate in “satanic” orgies with abuse and even murder of minors.
One of the most popular theories of the time had to do with a alleged Washington pizzeria in which the members of the Administration Obama along, of course, with the Clintons and some other progressive actor or singer, carried out their crimes. It was known as “Pizzagate”, and it was important when it came to mobilizing a certain anti-establishment vote in the 2016 elections, not only in favor of Trump, but, above all, against Hillary Clinton.
These theories continued to be fueled for years, without finally coming to fruition… until, in July 2019, The FBI arrested businessman Jeffrey Epstein at the New Jersey airportyy the justice system imprisoned him accused of trafficking of minors.
Suddenly, In the minds of supporters of Breitbart News, Chan, and the right to the right of FOX News, everything added up.: Epstein was a multimillionaire, a friend of the elites, he had photos with Bill Clinton, he organized parties with underage girls… and he was also Jewish, something that, in the ultranationalist environments of deep America, is another reason for suspicion.
Pedophilia as a political element
He ‘Epstein case became the embodiment of all past daydreams. Finally, the link between the Democratic Party and pedophilia appeared, completely ignoring that one of the businessman’s best friends was precisely another businessman, also a New Yorker, also a friend of parties, also a supporter of the Democratic Party at the time, named Donald Trump. At that time, he was also president of the country.
He strange Epstein suicide In prison he definitively triggered all the paranoia. Obviously, they had killed him so that he would not speak, there was no other explanation. Who had killed him? The same elites who had attended the parties on their Florida island.
From there, the rumor that Epstein kept a kind of accounting with the names of all those who had traveled to the island and participated in the orgies. The “Epstein list” or “Epstein papers” became a ghost that stalked the powerful, with constant hoaxes and names thrown at random for political purposes.
When Musk said that one of those names was Donald Trump, he had reason to think that this could damage the billionaire’s reputation, but he was wrong. Because? Because The fight was never against pedophilia or child prostitution. The fight was against the progressive elites and, specifically, against the Democratic Party, which is why there was so much emphasis on Joe Biden’s refusal to publish the alleged list and it was ignored that Epstein was arrested, imprisoned and found hanging in his cell during Trump’s first term.
The “trick” that everyone tries to take advantage of
Therefore, although the Democrats now want to use the ‘Epstein case’ for their political interest, they are not finding the response they expected.. Elon Musk has not said a word regarding the leaked emails last Wednesday in which the pedophile suggested that Trump knew much more about his parties than he admitted.
Steve Bannon hasn’t said anything either. on his podcast The War Room. The great MAGA ideologue, who so many times demanded that Biden make the investigation public, is now silent, waiting for the storm to subside.
In a surprising turn of events, It is Trump himself who speaks of the “Epstein case” as a “trick” of the Democratic Partypurposely ignoring that it has been one of the demands of his electoral base for years.
After the public support he received on Wednesday from the Republican Party congressmen – the “speaker” Mike Johnson announced, of course, that next week a proposal would be voted in the House of Representatives to ask the Department of Justice to publish all the files of the investigation -, the silence of the leaders of the alternative right gives it a necessary air.
More than anything because all this comes at a turbulent time: this Thursday, the House voted affirmatively on the financing project that Republican senators agreed upon with eight Democratic senators, allowing, in the absence of the president’s signature, the federal government to reopen after a month and a half. This is a topic that interests MAGA and that generally interests all of America that distrusts Washington and therefore its Government.
It is also interesting, and there are the public demonstrations about it, Trump’s excessive involvement in foreign conflicts, which comes to undermine the “America First” doctrine. There is a large sector of MAGA, led by Bannon himself, that views with suspicion the possibility of intervention in Venezuela, where they believe that the United States has not lost anything.
No matter how much the White House insists that the ‘Epstein case’ It is an invention of the Democrats so that people do not talk about how well the country is doing, the truth is that It is also helping Trump to keep people quiet about his erratic economic and diplomatic policies. That is why, perhaps, the theme never declines.