Rightwing influencers in the US who are often aligned with Donald Trump are angry that a joint justice department and FBI memo has dismissed the existence of a “client list” in the case against late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The disgraced financier killed himself in a jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on child sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.
Almost ever since, Epstein’s death has been the subject of conspiracy theories on the right, including a supposed “client list” that he purportedly used to blackmail wealthy co-conspirators.
It’s not incompetence.
It’s indignant.
They know they are getting away with it and there isn’t a fucking thing anyone can do to stop it. None of his followers are going to stop worshipping him as a result.
Technically yes, indignant is more accurate…
But that does also kind of loop back into being an incompetent cover up… if one assumes the concept of a cover up is to actually make the entire issue just go away.
And… I do actually disagree that none of the magats will snap out of it.
Its actually causing quite a lot of chaos and anger.
Will all of them suddenly realize they’ve been duped, and then magically become better people?
No.
But … this whole Epstein thing, its a pretty big fucking deal to a lot of the people that got on board with Trump largely due to QAnonsense conspiracy theories…
Its now actually breaking the cognitive dissonance of a lot of them, who’ve been waiting for Trump to finally rout the Deep State of pedos… who are now either realizing that Trump just is another powerful pedo, or at least covering up on their behalf.