How the Epstein case is dividing Trump's supporters who believe in conspiracy theories

But that feeling is far from universal.

“Epstein transparency now !!!”, was the answer.

Another user criticized the president for his recent statements in which he lashed out at his followers for focusing on the Epstein matter: “No (attacks) against your own base … that makes you seem guilty.”

As the saga progresses by reports that give more details of Trump's relationship with Epstein, and the meetings of the Department of Justice with Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the US former person conventional.

Trump was a friend of Epstein between the 1990s and early 2000s, but has not been accused of any crime in the framework of investigations against his former friend.

According to Trump, the two fought in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein was first arrested. The White House has recently suggested that its disagreement had been related to Epstein's behavior, and that “the president threw him out of his club for being a scoundrel.”

Although the contents of the unspelling documents are unknown, the existing public domain material mentions several high -level personalities that were related to Epstein, although this does not imply any illegal activity.

The president had said previously that he would be open to make more information about Epstein. But he changed posture earlier this month, stating that the case was closed.

The frustration that has generated what many Americans consider a simple request is now also being expressed by some leading allies of the president.

“Look, I am where I have been every time they ask me this question,” said Thom Tillis, an American senator of the Republican party who has sometimes faced Trump. “Release the damn files.”

An official of the US Department of Justice spoke with Maxwell in prison on Thursday, although they have barely transcended details about what was interrogated and how he responded.

Although Trump's greatest supporters continue to support the president, many are trying to make their support for movement compatible Make America Great Again (Maga) with what they apparently see how their obstruction to the publication of new information.

The magician influencers are on the defensive while trying to protect their man after years of demanding transparency in the Epstein case, called that he was backed by Trump during the presidential campaign last year, and a vociferous for years by several senior administration officials, including the current director of the FBI, Kash Patel.

Laura Loomer, a theoretical conspiracy of the extreme right with a large number of followers on social networks, and an informal but influential of the White House, published a link to a press article in which she said that “Trump is not involved” in the Epstein files.

Together with the messages of support, criticism of X did not wait:

“He was literally partying with Epstein.”

Dozens of other users responded with historical memes and photos of Trump and Epstein together, before they fight.

And messages like “We want to see the Epstein files!” – That a follower published on the site of the conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk- seem today to be as common on the Internet as the most popular slogan used by the obsessives of the case: “Epstein did not commit suicide.”

The phrase is a reference to one of the most common conspiracy theories according to which Epstein was murdered by an unknown assailant and did not take his life, as the official narrative affirms, when he died in prison in 2019.

The Department of Justice and the FBI rejected that theory in a memorandum earlier this month. They also said they had no “client list” of Epstein from which it could be implied in the criminal operation to high profile associates, in addition to Maxwell.

It was that memorandum that triggered the renewed interest in Epstein that has been dominating the US informative cycle in recent days.

After questioning government officials and demanding the release of more documents initially, many popular influencers in the Maga world – including Loomer, Jack Posobiec, Pro -Trump blogs in replacement and websites such as Zerohedge – seem to be going back in front of the issue in recent days, while trying to direct their audiences to another part.

But others – among them the former Fox News Tucker Carlson presenter, Steve Bannon and the Benny Johnson podcasts – have continued to cover the saga in detail.

The episode has even taken some of Trump's strongest supporters to become against the president.

Earlier this week Jacob Chansley – the so -called Qanon shaman that was sentenced by the disturbances in the US Capitol in January 2021 carrying horns, skins and the painted face – published a chain of messages loaded with expletives aimed at Trump in X. His account was eliminated shortly after.

However, the efforts of the administration to highlight other stories do seem to have worked to blur energy in some of the most conspiracy pro-trump spaces.

In Thedonaldthe last turns in the Epstein case are just a discussion of many.

The commentators also talk about issues such as vaccines, the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's night program and recently declassified documents by the National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, about Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Those declassified documents, although confirming the predominant opinion that Russia tried to influence the contest, led Trump's allies to ask for the arrest of former president Barack Obama after Trump accused his predecessor of trying to falsely link him with Russia.

Obama said that Trump's comments were “ridiculous and a weak attempt to distraction”, and other Democrats who described the Gabbard maneuver of shabbrade attempt to change the subject.

As with the promised publication of Epstein's archives, Gabbard may have created even greater expectations among magician followers who can then demand accounts.

Those who continue talking about the Epstein case are in discussion forums trying to decipher what they speculate that they could be hidden meanings behind Trump's actions and asking questions such as why the government of Democrat Joe Biden did not make public the documents of the Epstein case, if they contain some material that could damage Trump's reputation.

Some of the supporters of the current president are trapped between his desire to obtain more information and the possibility of harming his movement if the saga continues.

“For 10 years the leftists have been looking for something, anything, to generate a division between Trump and Maga,” wrote a collaborator of Thedonald. “This has been his most successful attempt so far.”

Another person replied: “Trump created the division opening his mouth.”

This article was written and edited by our journalists with the help of an artificial intelligence tool for translation, as part of a pilot program.

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