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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

It seems like a simple decision for Donald Trump's administration – release files related to the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein, or keep them out of public view.

But battles raging among the US president's supporters in some of the more conspiratorial spaces online suggest that the choice facing Trump is not easy at all.

In those spaces, users argue about whether to trust the White House, and they speculate on what might be going on behind the scenes and Trump's strategic acumen - which some fans liken to playing a game of "4D chess".

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[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 year ago

Tearing apart? I'll believe it when I see it.

[-] galoisghost@aussie.zone 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Too many MAGA-NAZIs will happily no longer give a shit about paedophiles because they get to say the N word and hate on immigrants and LGBTQIA+ folk.

[-] Sagan_Wept@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 1 year ago

The deep state is real, and they are all Natzis

[-] scarabine@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was thinking the same, I feel like I’ve seen one or two of these a week for over ten years now

[-] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Nothing is going to happen. He's a 34x convicted felon rapist. The fact is there's a fascist regime in charge of the United States. They will not give up power. The political fight is over. It's done. We are a fascist country now. Stop this rhetoric that these files will change anything. Organized violence will be the only thing that stops the Conservatives now, and no one will be motivated to do anything like that until the gestapo is knocking on their door.

You've already lost. It's been over since January. Stop pretending these files are going to change anything.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Tearing apart MAGA's conspiracy theorist wing by having an actual real life conspiracy.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

This won’t go away until they release trump’s long-form rape certificate.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Death certificate might also do it

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tearing apart? Like he tore apart the lives of those girls he sexually abused?

[-] paige@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

This is wishful thinking. I don’t think this fever is breaking with anything in this category of news or information.

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

Someone needs to make Trump a Make the Epstein Files Great Again hat. Flood the White House with them.

[-] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Hint: it absolutely is not. See the post about Newsmax referring to Jizz-lane as a victim

[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

No it isn’t

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