Alright, so the Jeffrey Epstein files contain President Trump’s name. However, who placed it there? Is there any chance that it was Barack Obama from his jail cell? Or Hillary Clinton under sedation? Oh wait, perhaps Joe Biden’s enchanted autopen engraved that onto the documents.
Or, hold on, is that confusing many scandals? Keeping up with the most recent crazy ideas that are going around the capital and beyond is really difficult. Conspiracy theories are rampant in Washington these days, a wave of suspicion and intrigue that is either confirmed or refuted in the White House, bouncing around Capitol Hill and cable television, and spreading quickly on social media.
Throughout his life, no president has been more engrossed in conspiracy theories than President Trump, and they now appear to be devouring him. Since he first propagated the falsehood that Mr. Obama was secretly born abroad and so ineligible to serve as president, they have been the driving force behind his political career. Over 10 years later, Mr. Trump is making a complete circle by attempting to deflect criticism from the Epstein conspiracy theory by laying claim to treason against Mr. Obama.
Critical policy challenges confronting America’s leaders at the present, such as the collapse of cease-fire talks intended to end the war in Gaza or new tariffs that might drastically alter the global economy, have been obscured by the harmonious convergence of opposing conspiracies. Speaker Mike Johnson was so alarmed by the Epstein case that, instead of facing it head-on, he unexpectedly adjourned the House for the summer. The former president was so incensed by the accusations made against him that he came out of political hibernation to voice his fury at even having to respond to them.
Mr. Trump claimed that the rumors and inquiries about this “nonsense” followed him all the way to Scotland, where he arrived on Friday to visit his golf club.
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