For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging.
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MAGA could care less about the latest document dump on disgraced financier and convicted sexual abuser
Jeffrey Epstein.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee released 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate, a number of which directly reference president Donald Trump. The cache of documents contain messages from Epstein, where the sex offender says he knows “
how dirty Donald is,” and that the president had
spent hours in Epstein’s own home with one of his victims. In one message from Epstein to author Michael Wolff, Epstein writes: “
Of course he knew about the girls.”
The White House has dismissed the revelations as nothing but a partisan attempt to smear Trump, a narrative MAGA world has been more than happy to get behind, even though the same people spent years calling for further investigations into Epstein’s associates. In February, the White House gave a dozen
right-wing influencers including conservative commentator Liz Wheeler and Chaya Raichik, the woman who runs
the notorious LibsofTikTok account, access to a number of Epstein-related documents. They walked out of the White House waving white binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” and “The Most Transparent Administration in History,” though the administration
later admitted many of the documents were already in the public domain.
But this week, following the drop of new documentation, the influencers have been silent.
MAGA influencers are either ignoring the new information or reframing it not as an indictment of Trump, but as part of a Democratic Party effort the president himself
called “a hoax.” In many cases, MAGA influencers online focused instead on references to other people in the document dump, including
a former New York Times journalist,
a lawyer who worked as a White House counsel during the Obama administration, and Wolff, an author who has written several books about Trump.
