MAGA World Is Now Accusing Trump’s Own DOJ of Covering Up Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes
A leaked DOJ memo says Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and there is no "Epstein list." Guess who the MAGA faithful are now accusing of being part of the "deep state."
Since before the 2016 election, the MAGA faithful, along with their influencers and podcasters (many of them diehard believers in the QAnon conspiracy cult) held out hope that Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency would finally bring justice to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. They also believed a “list” detailing the identities of Epstein’s high-profile clients would be finally be revealed to the world.
Now, with Trump serving his second term in the White House, his Justice Department and FBI have released a memo concluding that there is no Epstein “client list,” as well as there being no evidence that he “blackmailed” powerful figures.
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Additionally, the Trump administration has released a video — in both raw and "enhanced" versions — that debunks another ongoing MAGA conspiracy theory: the claim that Epstein did not commit suicide in prison, but was murdered in a plot to keep him quiet. The video apparently shows that no one entered the cell at the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now FBI deputy director) were once MAGA social media influencers, and they were among the most vocal when it came to spreading conspiracy theories about how Epstein died. But MAGA world soured on them when they gave separate interviews to Fox News in May, saying that they themselves had confirmed Esptein died by suicide and they had the video to prove it.
“There’s no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips, there is nothing,” said Bongino, who asked the public to share any evidence in regards to the case if they had it. “If you have it, I’m happy to see it.”
“There’s video clear as day,” he added. “He’s the only person in [the cell] and the only person coming out. You can see it.”
In a separate interview on Fox News that same month, Patel also said Epstein had died by suicide, and he promised to release additional information about the case.
“We are diligently working on that,” Patel said. “It takes time to go through years of investigations.”
MAGA heads are also exploding over a resurfaced video of Attorney General Pam Bondi saying back in February during a Fox News interview that the Epstein list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
But it wasn’t just Patel, Bongino, and Bondi who perpetuated false hope about an earth-shattering Epstein reckoning. Trump’s personal attorney-turned acting US attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba, told Piers Morgan in February that a treasure trove of Epstein information would soon be released.
“It’s incredibly disturbing. We have flight logs, info, names that will come out,” she said. “There were so many names hidden who had not been held accountable. Now it’s time for accountability. I really believe with Kash and Pam there will be accountability.”
Now, with the revelation that no such information exists, MAGA world is roping Trump’s own law enforcement agencies into their conspiracy theories.
In a video posted to his X account, career conspiracy theorist and QAnon booster Alex Jones accused Trump’s DOJ of “running cover for the CIA and Mossad.” (Some Epstein conspiracy theories claimed he was a secret Israeli intelligence agent, which is why Jones constantly references Mossad in his Epstein rants).
“Trump had two ways to go with all of this — he could prosecute all these incredibly prominent people … or they could use the information to blackmail the Deep State,” Jones said, adding that Trump likely won’t prosecute because it would “bring down the CIA.”
Jones wasn’t the only one sounding off.
“Trump has to fire Pam Bondi,” Keith and Kevin Hodge, the two die-hard Trump supporters behind the Twins Pod podcast, wrote in a post to X on Monday. “She went on camera and told the world she has the Epstein client list on her desk. Now they say there’s no list???”
Trump’s former government efficiency czar, Elon Musk — who in a now-deleted tweet previously accused Trump of being in the “Epstein files” — joined in on the pile-on as well.
Far-right influencer (and diehard Trump supporter) Laura Loomer put out a series of posts calling Pam Bondi “Blondie” and slamming her as a “liar.”
Far-right influencer and “Pizza Gate” conspiracy theory originator Jack Posobiec also slammed Bondi for failing to deliver after “we were promised everything.”
“If Jeffrey Epstein had no clients list, didn’t have elites raping girls on his island and hadn’t taken part in any blackmail schemes… Then… Why’d he kill himself?” right-wing filmmaker and Heritage Foundation Visiting Fellow Robby Starbuck posted. “Doesn’t pass the smell test [Pam Bondi].”
As MAGA world melts down over the new revelations (or lack thereof), you’ll notice that they never directly criticize Trump himself, regardless if it’s his own appointees who they say are participating in an alleged Epstein coverup.
“There’s nothing Trump can do that will lose these people’s loyalty,” conspiracy theory researcher Mike Rothschild said in an interview last year. “Anything that is inconvenient, that alters their worldview, they’ll just ignore it, or they’ll make up some bizarre justification for it.”
“Disinformation and conspiracy theories spread so quickly and so readily on social media, while the rest of us are doing our research and writing our articles and doing our interviews, trying to figure out what this actually means,” he added. “The people who believe this stuff have already decided what it means. And they don’t want to be told differently.”