'Big bomb': Trump’s Epstein ties thrust back into spotlight by Musk

>> IN HIS ONLINE FIGHT WITH DONALD TRUMP YESTERDAY, ELON MUSK'S IDEA OF DROPPING A REALLY BIG BOMB WAS TO REVEAL THAT TRUMP WAS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. BUT YOU KNEW THAT, RIGHT? I MEAN, ONE OF THE CRAZIEST THINGS ABOUT THE MAGA, RIGHT, AND THEIR LONGTIME OBSESSION WITH THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN STORY IS HOW THEY TOOK A STORY THAT IS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION AND SOMEHOW TWISTED IT TO BE A STORY ABOUT ALL OF THEIR POLITICAL ENEMIES. IT'S A CRAZY IDEOLOGICAL CONTORTION THAT GOT CREATED AROUND EPSTEIN, THIS MAN WHO WAS, AS YOU SEE THERE, VIDEOTAPED HANGING OUT AND LEERING AT WOMEN WITH DONALD TRUMP, A MAN WHO, ACCORDING TO TRUMP IN A 2002 INTERVIEW, LIKES BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AS MUCH AS I DO. MANY OF THEM ARE ON THE YOUNGER SIDE. A MAN WHO DIED BY SUICIDE IN A FEDERAL PRISON IN DONALD TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION, UNDER THE EGIS OF WILLIAM BARR'S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AND YET, EPSTEIN'S REPORTED SEX TRAFFICKING WAS SEIZED ON BY THE RIGHT WING, SPUN INTO A CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT THE PERFIDY OF LIBERAL POLITICIANS LIKE HILLARY CLINTON AND GLOBAL ELITES LIKE BILL GATES. NOW, IT TOOK OFF PARTLY BECAUSE EPSTEIN REALLY DID HAVE THIS INSANE RANGE OF CONTACTS WITH RICH AND INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE. BUT SPINNING EPSTEIN'S CRIMES INTO A VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY ALWAYS REQUIRED SELECTIVE MEMORIES AND CRAZY CONTORTIONS. SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN DONALD TRUMP'S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HYPED UP ITS DUMP OF DOCUMENTS ON THE EPSTEIN CASE IN FEBRUARY, REMEMBER THAT EVEN INVITING SOME FAR RIGHT INFLUENCERS TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO PICK UP THE FILES IN GREAT BIG BINDERS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GOT IT? THOSE INFLUENCERS WERE DISAPPOINTED AND ANGERED TO FIND NOTHING NEW, CERTAINLY NO EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THEIR OUTLANDISH THEORIES ABOUT EPSTEIN CONSORTED WITH AND HOW HE DIED. AND SUDDENLY, THE SAME TRUMP OFFICIALS WHO HAD ONCE TRAFFICKED IN EPSTEIN CONSPIRACY THEORIES WERE FLAILING TO CONVINCE THE MAGA FAITHFUL THAT THE CONSPIRACIES WERE WRONG. ALL ALONG. >> YOU SAID. JEFFREY EPSTEIN COMMITTED SUICIDE. PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IT. >> WELL. >> I MEAN. >> LISTEN. THEY HAVE. >> A RIGHT. >> TO THEIR OPINION. BUT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED AS A PUBLIC. >> DEFENDER, AS. >> A PROSECUTOR WHO'S BEEN IN THAT PRISON SYSTEM, WHO'S BEEN IN THE METROPOLITAN DETENTION CENTER, WHO'S BEEN IN. >> SEGREGATED HOUSING. >> YOU KNOW, A SUICIDE WHEN YOU SEE ONE. AND THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS.