All MAGA Wanted Was the Epstein Files. Now They're Ignoring Them: Wired

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

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
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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.
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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.”
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