The Ghost of Epstein is Haunting the MAGA Movement - Here's Why, & How it Can be Exorcised
Emails from Jeffrey Epstein have once again poked the hornet's nest, unleashing a swarm of scrutiny over Donald Trump’s long-ended association with him. But, intentionally, they come without context.
The emails will undoubtedly pile further pressure on the President. But this can all be avoided by countering the inevitable disinformation tsunami heading his way, by finally fighting it with facts.
I’ve been investigation this scandal for over half a decade, have read every unsealed affidavit, witness statement, trial transcript, and have travelled the world interviewing key witnesses and gathering fresh evidence, much of it shocking – all of it exposing that most of what you think you know about this scandal is a lie.
The biggest takeaways from the newly-released emails sent from Epstein to Michael Wolf are:
1. Epstein stated that Trump “knew about the girls”.
2. Epstein confirmed that the photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre is genuine.
3. Epstein claimed that Trump spent ‘hours’ inside Epstein’s home while Virginia was present.
Firstly, a quick dose of harsh but constructive truth. I will be blunt: The headache that those within Trump’s ‘inner circle’ are likely to be experiencing right now is, to some extent, self-inflicted.
By allowing some to weaponise this scandal for personal gain, particularly during the 2016 presidential election (e.g. Alex Jones and Roger Stone, for attention and viewers/money), and for the purpose of political point-scoring and running successful online smear campaigns (i.e. in the hope that voters will falsely believe that senior Democrats, via ‘guilt by association’, were involved in the scandal); by promoting the debunked notion that there exists an ‘Epstein client list’; and by failing to condemn wild conspiracy theory movements such as Qanon – those who set out with the intention of helping Trump have now instead caused him great harm.
This is not an attack on MAGA. This is merely me pointing out the reality in hope that they will accept their mistake and rectify it before it’s too late.
Secondly, let me quickly point out why - if the media, for political reasons, hadn’t been hiding the truth about the Epstein Scandal from you, and hadn’t been producing clickbait to mislead the public – you would see that these emails not only reveal nothing damning against Trump or Prince Andrew, but in fact confirm my own investigation’s findings (findings that do indeed help, rather than harm, the President).
“Trump knew about the girls”? Epstein was a Hugh Hefner-type character, a bright but super sleazy individual who used his wealth to live a lifestyle whereby he was surrounded by a steady flow of young women to satisfy his evidently out-of-control sexual appetite. But those women were exactly that - women. Not minors.
I get that this is hard to swallow, but it’s the truth.
One need only watch Netflix’s (fiction-riddled) hit documentary series, Epstein: Filthy Rich, to see proof of this (although I have much more that I’ll soon be releasing).
Watch which ‘victims’ appear throughout that series – what type of girls Epstein surrounded himself with - and, most importantly, note their ages.
Juliette Bryant was in her twenties when she first met Epstein. When I interviewed her, she contradicted her allegation that she had witnessed Ghislaine Maxwell engaging in the recruiting of minors - by telling me that, in actual fact, she hadn’t seen her engage in any such activity at all.
Maria Farmer, whose allegations also contain grave contradictions, was also over the legal age of consent. As was Sarah Ransome, who was 22 years old when she began making repeat visits to Epstein in exchange for cash and help with her career, and who openly admits that she worked as an escort. Ransome also tried to sell sex tapes to a leading newspaper, claiming that they contained footage of Trump, Richard Branson, and the Clintons… before admitting she’d lied and that no such tapes existed.
Teresa Helm, Chauntae Davies, and many more were also legal adults.
Another woman was Rina Oh (who is suing Virginia Giuffre’s estate and who told me she ‘never saw Epstein with any underage girls’). My extensive interviews with Rina will be included in my upcoming book, along with many other interviews I’ve conducted.
That isn’t to say that Epstein did not, at some point, sexually assault some of them. This article is in no way an apology for a man who was clearly a deviant. But he was not a child predator, and the irrefutable evidence I’ll soon be revealing in my book and through Substack, fully proves that the idea that he was running a ‘global child trafficking operation’ is a dangerous folly based on viral conspiracy theories and demonstrably discredited accusers.
Another inconvenient fact that has undeservedly received no attention, is that during the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, prosecutors searched the globe for girls who were minors when Epstein engaged in sexual activity with them… but could only find ONE to take the stand as a witness.
And guess what – not only was that one individual (Carolyn Andriano) NOT recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, but she confirmed that she had been groomed and recruited by Virginia Giuffre and had been coerced by her into lying to Epstein that she was over 18.
Other girls had also been recruited by Virginia and by Virginia’s recruits who followed her lead (I have interviewed some of them), each of them told to lie to Epstein that they were over the legal age of consent, so that Virginia and Co could financially profit from supplying Epstein with ‘new women’.
Excerpts from my exclusive interview with Virginia’s former partner, Tony Figueroa (who is mentioned throughout the so-called ‘Epstein Files’), in which he recounts how Virginia recruited these children (as many as two a week) can be read here.
It is an established fact that the late Virginia Giuffre, by her own admission, had made the deplorable choice, under no coercion, and entirely motivated by money, to groom and recruit underage school girls. Referring to them in her original, unpublished memoir, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, as ‘easy commission’, Virginia actively stalked the streets and school corridors of Palm Beach, while she was over 18 and a legal adult, in search of girls whom she could manipulate and take to Jeffrey Epstein.
She dressed them up in ‘more adult, more revealing’ clothes. She put makeup on them. She plied them with drugs, and she drove them to Jeffrey Epstein’s home. On the way, she would remind them that, should Epstein or any of his house staff ask, they must lie to them that they are over 18.
Carolyn Andriano was one of them.
While just a vulnerable underage schoolgirl, she was approached by the adult Virginia Giuffre, peer-pressured into taking drugs, and asked if she wanted to make some easy cash. All she had to do, Virginia assured her, was massage ‘some old rich guy’. Naturally, although at first hesitant, Carolyn accepted, lured in with a false sense of security by a woman, Virginia, who made it sound as though everything would be okay.
But it wouldn’t.
Virginia drove her to Epstein’s home in West Palm Beach, reminding her once again, ‘if Epstein or anyone asks, you have to say you’re over 18.’ When they got there, she led Carolyn up the stairs like a lamb to the slaughter, made her undress, made her watch as she engaged in sexual activity with Epstein in his massage room, and then coerced her into joining in.
Many years later, on May 23rd, 2023, Carolyn was sadly found dead in a hotel room in West Palm Beach. The authorities believe it was an overdose, the result of the life of destructive on-and-off drug abuse that Virginia had thrown her on. Her mother believes she was murdered.
But whatever the truth (Dorothy is pushing for a full investigation - more on that later), she is unapologetically adamant that we have not been told the truth about Virginia Giuffre.
“She abused my daughter!” Dorothy told me in one of our interviews, conducted before Virginia sadly committed suicide amidst growing personal and credibility issues. “She [Virginia] should be behind f*cking bars!”
“She victimised my daughter. She was the one who recruited my daughter, knowing what the f*ck she was involved with, what she was doing, and knowing it was wrong”.
Dorothy claims that Carolyn was seeking to sue Virginia very shortly before she (Carolyn) was found dead. She states that Carolyn was offered money from Virginia’s wealth in exchange for giving false testimony to corroborate Virginia’s allegations against Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell.
She has even signed a notarised witness statement to that effect, while adding much more. I’ll be publishing that notarised witness statement in full in the book.
“I lay awake at night thinking about my daughter” she told me, “and thinking about all the sh*t that has happened, and the people who were wrongly accused, and [how] the people who should be accused and f*cking suffering are living in paradise.”
Listen to the short clip below of Dorothy discussing Virginia Giuffre. Her full harrowing story forms the first chapter of my book; a chapter which I’ll be releasing on here shortly before the book’s release.
In a nutshell, over what was, when looking at the entire timeline, a very short period in the life of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre exploited Epstein’s seedy MO of offering his escorts and female associates cash incentives to introduce other attractive women (of legal age) to him, by seeking out vulnerable underage teenagers from her local area, telling them to lie that they were over the legal age of consent, and taking them to Epstein to make, as she put it, ‘easy commission.’
And Epstein did believe that they were over 18. We know this to be the case because of a little-known fact: Once arrested, Palm Beach Police had Epstein take a lie detector test. Wired up to the polygraph machine, he was asked if he had known that those girls (just a tiny percent from the pool of legal adult women) were in fact underage.
He answered ‘No’… And the polygraph test concluded that he was telling the truth.
I understand that what I’m saying to you right now - due to the media conditioning you’ve been exposed to for so long to think otherwise - might make you feel uncomfortable, even perhaps feel animosity towards me for saying it.
Believe me, it shocked me too when I first took up this case, initially having no reason to doubt what the mainstream media had been reporting.
But how is this relevant to today’s email leak? Well, the media, in collusion with Trump’s opponents, are evidently seeking to twist the meaning of what Epstein was in fact trying to relay, misleading an already uneducated (through no fault of their own) public into believing that those ‘girls’ were underage.
“Trump knew about the girls”. So what? Practically everyone who knew Jeffrey Epstein knew about them. He certainly didn’t hide it. He took them shopping. He flew them on his airplane. He went to the movies with them. But they (the girls whom Trump may have seen) were over the legal age of consent. Thus, what is Trump supposed to have done wrong, other than potentially being aware, like everyone else, that Epstein, like Hugh Hefner, almost always went about the place with ‘hot promiscuous young women’ in his company?
Further evidence pertaining to this, and to my investigation, can be read in one of my reports (but I warn you, it’s a very deep, very shocking dive). Since that report was written, I have interviewed Professor Alan Dershowitz, Mark Epstein, Ian Maxwell, many of the accusers/victims, Virginia Giuffre’s former friends and ex-partners, Virginia’s victims, and many more.
You can also watch mine and Jessica Kraus’ in-depth discussion about the scandal, and hear some new revelations, by clicking here. Kraus, along with individuals like Lady Victoria Hervey, have done a great job themselves of trying to get the truth about this entire scandal out to the public, despite the torrent of abuse we’ve received for doing so.
2. Epstein appears to confirm that the photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia is authentic.. or does her? In reality, he merely states that she and other members of his staff had their pictures taken with him. But, even if it is real, that photo doesn’t show what you think it shows…
Much has already been written over the past month about the book of Prince Andrew’s accuser, the late Virginia Giuffre. But many troubling questions still remain unanswered.
Most people are unaware that ‘Nobody’s Girl’ is in fact Giuffre’s second memoir.
Nobody’s Girl was written by a ghost-writer. But her first memoir was written solely by Giuffre herself.
In this memoir, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club (unpublished), she wrote, in vivid detail, about her allegation that she had spent a long weekend with Prince Andrew at Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico. She penned no less than two pages detailing romantic horse rides and lust-filled sex sessions with the (now former) prince.
Why did journalists simply shrug their shoulders when, under oath, Giuffre later admitted that it never happened? That she’d lie. That she had falsely accused Prince Andrew of having sex with her, and falsely accused Ghislaine Maxwell of taking part in trafficking her to him.
Why did a U.S. judge refuse to permit Prince Andrew’s legal team to submit this memoir as evidence? Why did Virginia fall silent over others whom she has accused in the memoir, including the owner of a large hotel chain whom she referred to as ‘Hilton’, a string of famous politicians, the granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau, and, most remarkably, a second prince?
Why does the public not know about these facts, including that Virginia has openly said that she worked as a prostitute before she even met Epstein and that, in 1999 (a year before she met the billionaire), a judge threw out her rape allegations against two young men ‘due to the victim’s lack of credibility’?
Years later, Michael Salnick, the defence lawyer representing the two innocent teens, warned that Virginia “needs to be careful that her past doesn’t come back to haunt her”. But, largely thanks to a lack of diligent and balanced reporting by journalists, it evidently hasn’t.
Nor has the fact that the original 2011 article telling her story clearly states “[Giuffre] said there was never any sexual relationship between the prince and herself”. Nor the fact that she committed perjury by swearing under oath that she had been sexually trafficked by Epstein to foreign presidents – only to later admit that she’d never met any. Or accusing renowned American lawyer Prof. Alan Dershowitz of raping her multiple times, destroying his life and reputation, before eventually admitting that she ‘may have been mistaken’.
In one of the 2011 emails, released today, Epstein wrote:
“Now that Strauss kan (sic) girl will be shown to be a total liar. Maybe your paper should jump on and show that Virginia’s allegations re Andrew are the same, she also accused numerous people of having sex with her, dersh, ehud, etc. Not one paper had the balls to question her credibility.”
He continued: “The girl has fled the country with an outstanding arrest warrant. The day after she accused others, said in writing that she had no credibility, she was never 15 years olf working for me, her story made it seem like she first worked for Trump at that age and was met by Ghislaine Maxwell. Total horseshit. The Daily Mail paid her money, they admitted it, witht he statement that it took money to coax out the truth. Yes she was on my plane, and yees she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have.”
“I have never misled you, this girl is a total liar.”
Epstein claimed Trump ‘spent hours in his home while Virginia Giuffre was there.
This one can be disregarded almost immediately, not least of all by using Giuffre’s own past statements, in which she repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”
Let’s now go back to that quote from Carolyn Andriano’s mother: “I lay awake at night thinking about my daughter” she told me, “and thinking about all the sh*t that has happened, and the people who were wrongly accused, and [how] the people who should be accused and f*cking suffering are living in paradise.”
How did we get to this point, whereby genuine child traffickers are being all-but canonized, innocent men and women are seeing their lives and reputations devoured by a MeToo and media-driven witch hunt, the truth is being intentionally suppressed by the press, and the scales of justice have been weighted in favour of the unjust?
I’ll be answering all of that and more in my book, and partly on here over the coming weeks and months. But, for now, let’s return to how some within the MAGA movement unwittingly seemed to allow myths surrounding this scandal fester, and then accept it was a mistake, so that we can fully understand what needs to be done to rectify the problem.
Much time and energy have been devoted by Trump’s critics to plant him into the picture, evidently seeking to exploit the scandal to pressure for the downfall of a president - not with facts, but with confirmation bias and a deep-rooted, toxic type of hate.
Whilst supportive of some of his policies, I myself have been fiercely critical of some of his statements about Ukraine as it bravely defends itself against Russia’s ongoing barbaric and unprovoked invasion. But was he, as some suggest, guilty of being involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes?
I can honestly say this, following a decade of digging, of countless travels to interview witnesses, and having examined every piece of evidence available:
I have not found a single shred of evidence to suggest that President Trump was guilty of, or in any way involved in, the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.
To vent some of his own frustrations over being falsely accused and publicly shamed, despite his innocence, Professor Dershowitz wrote the book, ‘Guilt by Association’. The title is self-explanatory, and the premise can equally be applied to Donald Trump.
Should Trump, who cut ties with Epstein long before the billionaire’s conviction, be automatically smeared as having partaken in his past pal’s crimes, devoid of any evidence, just because some folk don’t like him? Of course not.
To some extent, by not shooting down QAnon or the Epstein client list myth (because, at the time, it benefited his campaign, with the myth mainly targeting Democrats), it can be said that Trump shot himself in the foot. The president is now not only plagued by his enemies trying to connect dots by inventing dots, but also haunted by a “release the Epstein files!”’- grunting golem that he partly created through his administration’s promise, and subsequent failure, to have them unsealed.
But this torment is synthetic, a Disney World-style Haunted House experience of smoke and mirrors being perpetuated by bad-faith actors and agenda-driven activists parading as journalists.
They do not care much for inconvenient evidence. They couldn’t give a fig about facts. And they certainly don’t give a damn about reporting the truth:
That some of the victims weren’t actually victims.
That Ghislaine Maxwell did not receive a fair trial.
That Virginia Giuffre was a serial false accuser and trafficker of children.
And that none of Epstein’s accusers - not even Virginia Giuffre herself - accused him of any inappropriate behaviour or criminality.
CONSPIRACY-PEDDLING
MAGA still has a problem with Qanon and Pizzagate, which has even brainwashed Senators and Congresswomen like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. Even though ‘Q’s’ claims and predictions (used by some within the MAGA movement to falsely accuse Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, and her senior supporters) were long ago debunked, it didn’t stop the movement from not only growing, but growing stronger and more fanatical. Millions of online pseudo sleuths and conspiracy loons had broadened the witch hunt. The Podesta brothers were bizarrely accused of being the kidnappers of British child Madelaine McCann. Any celebrity who had voiced so much as a slightly negative opinion of Donald Trump was instantly branded a paedophile, their name beginning to appear on fake versions of Epstein’s flight logs and photoshopped versions of his black book.
Epstein quickly became the movement’s primary focus.
Conspiracy theorists continue to use the Epstein case as ‘proof’ to support their already debunked claims, and has drawn further online interest in QAnon, subsequently significantly contributing to the vast and viral streams of disinformation that became ‘official Epstein lore’.
“I definitely see it [Epstein’s arrest] as a moment of vindication,” David Seaman, a chief proponent of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, told me. “I think this is a turning point.”
“This is just the beginning,” said Liz Crokin, a prominent QAnon devotee. “The storm is officially here.”
“I think I’ve been unnecessarily maligned,” said Mike Cernovich, a right-wing social-media personality who has claimed that almost every A-list actor in Hollywood is a paedophile.
But journalist McKay Coppins stated, “The notion that the Epstein case somehow validates every outlandish assertion uttered by the tinfoil-hat brigade is absurd. But squint at the recent headlines and you’ll see a story—about abuse of power, and elite impunity, and moral rot in the ruling class—that helps explain why a certain breed of conspiracy theorist has gained so much traction in this political moment.”
Mimicking previous conspiracy stories, QAnon supporters began spreading a series of baseless claims, hoax-riddled memes, and – directly copying the debunked allegation in Pizzagate – the belief that a secret subterranean chamber exists beneath a ‘temple’ on Epstein’s private island that Hillary Clinton and other world elites used to secretly traffic and sacrifice children to Satan and to drink abducted children’s blood.
This narrative has become perhaps their most popular conspiracy theory to date, and the long-known fact that Epstein had entertained the Clintons and other celebrities, and the release of his ‘black book’, further fuelled the conspiracy.
Following the suspicious death of Epstein, some influencers within the MAGA movement had been boosting the conspiracy theory that the convicted sex offender was somehow killed by Bill Clinton.
This was far from the only theory to spread about the Epstein case. Opponents of Trump, for example, used the hashtag #TrumpBodyCount to imply that the President was involved in Epstein’s death to cover up his own alleged involvement.
Meanwhile, fake flight logs and ‘Epstein client lists’ began to go viral on social media, including the names of senior Democrats, their influential supporters, and any famous actor or TV host who had publicly criticised Trump.
Epstein’s ‘black book’, essentially nothing more than a phonebook containing names of famous and not famous individuals (some of whom Epstein had never even met) was also thrown into the mix, further muddying the waters of the legend of the Client List.
The world - mostly due to the spread of these nonsense claims and theories, but also due to media manipulation of the whole affair and the sensational headlines that flooded in, and still flood in - now truly believes that Epstein had been convicted of running a global child trafficking operation for some of the most powerful men on the planet, and that Ghislaine Maxwell had been his ‘chief recruiter’.
But none of it is true, and the evidence, which will be included in my upcoming book, NAKED LIES: The Epstein Scandal That Rocked The Royals, proves that.
And one inconvenient fact bizarrely remains overlooked: Not a single Epstein accuser has ever claimed to have been trafficked to anyone famous or influential. In fact, they have never claimed they’d been trafficked to anyone other than Jeffrey Epstein. Nor did a single witness during the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell claim that they had been trafficked to anyone other than Jeffrey Epstein.
Except, that is, for serial false accuser Virginia Giuffre.
In the early days of this scandal, seeing an opportunity to draw attention to their own claims of abuse, Virginia began tweeting out QAnon slogans such as ‘WWG1WGA’ (‘Where we go one, we go all’), ‘The Great Awakening’, and attempting to attract the online conspiracy theory community, regaling them with baseless tales of elite pedophile rings. Virginia continued to do this just a few years before her death.
Her plan worked. Not only did her tweets go viral, but she became a firm favourite of Qanon followers, and her salacious sex scandal stories, splashing famous faces on front pages across the world, were swiftly assimilated into Qanon lore as vindication that the entire conspiracy theory was based on fact.
More importantly, it seemed to validate the belief that an ‘Epstein client list’ exists, and many are now, through a lust for confirmation bias, desperately hoping that the mythical list will be revealed - Democrats hoping it will expose Republicans, Republicans hoping it will expose Democrats.
You can read how Virginia’s allegations evolved, including evidence proving those allegations to be false, by clicking here.
Now the whole scandal has snowballed out of control. But there’s still time to fix this, and to prevent it from being used to topple Trump, as it did Prince Andrew - providing the following steps are immediately taken.
DON’T RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES (YET).
A controversial take, of course - and not one you may expect to come from a journalist who has been investigating this case for so long and who endeavours to leave no stoned unturned.
But the public remain misled and unwittingly confused about the entire scandal. They falsely believe (because the media has led them to believe) that this entire case can be summed up in sensational headlines, that it is a story of a pedophile who ran a ‘global child trafficking operation’ serving the rich and powerful.
It isn’t, and the evidence proves that it isn’t. But the average Joe has neither the time nor motivation to wade through literally tens of thousands of documents (many already in the public domain) to find that evidence.
Instead, understandably, the public rely upon the press and media to do that work for them, and to present the truth - despite their track record rendering them completely unreliable to do so, and in fact (due to political agendas held by most journalists) the end result usually being the intentional manipulation of the truth and a weaponising of lies to attack political parties and their leaders whom they dislike.
Releasing the Epstein files now will create a tsunami of jumbled, out-of-context information into a pool already filled with confusing data and fabrication. Release them now, while the public are ill-informed, and again they will rely upon the unreliable media to give them the highlights. And those highlights will, of course, merely take the form of more out-of-context statements and emails with the intention of further misleading readers and piling more political pressure onto Donald Trump.
Releasing the files now will not give us the truth, it will ironically result in the continued dissemination of disinformation.
Only once the public are up to speed with the truth will they be ready for the full files to be released.
STOP ALLOWING POLITICAL AGENDAS TO MANIPULATE THIS SCANDAL.
It’s time to disavow Pizzagate and Qanon, to stop weaponising an exaggerated criminal case to smear opponents. It worked against Hillary Clinton - her husband was, at least, formerly associated with Epstein (though evidence shows he, like Trump, had no knowledge of nor involvement in, Epstein’s crimes.
Continue to allow people within the MAGA movement to promote these bizarre conspiracy theories will only heighten calls for the release of the mythical ‘Epstein Client List’, will only motivate Democrats to also jump onboard the ‘guilt by association’ bandwagon and deflect onto Trump… and, now that Clinton is out of the picture, Trump will remain the main focus of the media.
Stop calling for the release of a client list. There isn’t one.
It’s time to grow up. For the truth, call a truce.
EXPOSE THE TRUTH & EDUCATE THE PUBLIC.
Unlike with other scandals, the Epstein affair is not something that one can simply declare a hoax and expect it to go away. It won’t. It will snowball. It has snowballed.
Sure, Trump can call it a hoax, because it is. But to mitigate further attacks against him, his team need to show WHY it’s a hoax. And to this end, they have the truth on their side.
Trump’s inner circle, and MAGA-supporting journalists and social media influencers, should finally start backing those who have been trying to get that truth out to the public.
I have all the receipts, exclusive interviews with witnesses, and all the evidence needed to very quickly expose how the media have orchestrated a campaign of disinformation - ‘fake news’, as Trump would call it, that has led to him now coming under increasing pressure, even from within his own supporter base.
Right now, the public are viewing the constant flurry of scandalous stories from a position of ignorance (again, not their fault) - and the media want to keep it that way in order to keep the gravy train rolling. The only way to take off that train’s wheels and stop the false accusations is to counter media fiction with facts.
REIGN-IN ROGUE REPUBLICANS.
Some ‘Qanon veterans’ like Marjorie Taylor Green must be brought to heel. They continue to believe the media, continue to call for a client list that does not exist. This rift is growing, gives power to false accusers and the Trump-hating media, and will engulf the Republican Party in bitter infighting if it is not quickly nipped in the bud.
For much of this scandal is a mixture of disingenuous outrage with political agendas, genuine misguided anger over a scandal that the public still don’t fully understand, and ‘journalists’ with axes to grind and articles to sell.
A viral myth that won’t go away.
A conspiracy theory influenced by unchallenged disinformation.
A series of smears.
A red herring.
And, as Trump now rightly calls it, ‘a hoax’.