When 66-year-old accused sex-trafficker billionaire Jeffrey Epsten was found dead in his New York City Metropolitan Correctional Center jail cell Aug. 10, the right wing conspiracy nuts went wild—including 73-year-old President Donald Trump. Trump tweeted Saturday night, “#JeffreyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead. We know who did this.” If you listen to U.S. Depart of Justice bureau of prisons, you’d have to accept Epstein’s death at face value: He was found dead of a self-inflicted wound, namely, hanging. Trump knows that much of his base despises the Clinton’s believing, there have been occasions where a Clinton associate was found dead. Clinton White House aide Vince Foster was found dead July 20, 1993 of a single gunshot to the head in Washington, D.C.’s Ford Macy Park. D.C. police ruled Foster’s death a suicide, despite conspiracy theories.
Under the gun for the Aug. 2 El Paso and Aug. 4 Dayton, Ohio mass shootings, Trump’s critics blamed the spate of white supremacist mass killings on Trump’s campaign rhetoric. Trump, of course, never encouraged anyone to commit acts of violence but Democrats and their media friends have blamed Trump for inciting right wing violence at campaign rallies. No one accused former President Barack Obama of inciting violence when 29-year-old security guard Omar Mateen massacred July 12, 2016 50 patrons at Orlando’s gay Pulse nightclub. Mass shootings are nothing new in a Second Amendment-friendly society with over 350 million guns in circulation. After the media blamed Trump for the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, Trump fired back with his conspiracy tweet bringing up the Clintons. Trump’s tweet panders to his conspiracy-nuts, who still believe that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S.
Reports of former President Bill Clinton hobnobbing with Epstein, taking trips to his Caribbean Island, AKA Pedophile Island are common. Investigating Epstein’s sex-trafficking case uncovered several politicians and celebrities who attended Epstein’s parties or visited his Caribbean Island. Now that Epstein’s dead, some fear that the government will stop investigating, potentially exposing such notables as Britain’s Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton. Trump found his new conspiracy about Epstein on “Conspiracyland,” a new podcast associating Epstein’s death with the suicide of fomer Clinton aide Vince Foster. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” implicating Epstein 17 years ago.
Documents unsealed in a civil case involving Epstein and a teenage victims of child sexual abuse reveal names of Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton. Epstein reportedly flew Bill Clinton and other politicians and celebrities on his private jet to Pedophile Island in the Caribbean. Clinton press secretary called the allegations “ridiculous,” despite the numerous reports of Bill and Jeff fraternizing with each other. Responding to Democrat attacks on Trump’s Epstein conspiracy tweet, 52-year-old Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway said Trump wanted all aspects of Epstein’s death investigated, not just the Clinton connection. Yet it’s pretty clear that Trump ignored the Metropolitan Detention Center’s initial conclusion that Epstein hung himself in his jail cell. Sen Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a presidential candidate, scoffed at Trump’s tweet, calling it equivalent to PizzaGate.
PizzaGate referred to a fake story that circulated in the 2016 presidential campaign that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ran a pedophilia ring out of New York Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor. When 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch shot up the place Dec. 4, 2016 with his AR-15 assault rifle, it showed the effect of fake news on violent acts. “Remember, this is a nation where we have just seen horrific acts, whether it is someone walking into a pizza shop, base on these kinds of conspiracy theories, to take violent action,” said Booker, blaming Trump for the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings. “This is another example of our president using his position of public trust to attack his political enemies with unfounded conspiracy theories,” said former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tx.), also a Democrat candidate. O’Rourke blames Trump for inciting violence at his campaign rallies.
Trump’s conspiracy tweet about Epstein’s death being linked to the Clintons raises more questions than it answers. Trump knows that federal law enforcement believes that Epstein offed himself Aug. 10 to avoid a possible life sentence for sex-trafficking charges. Trump doesn’t think twice about promoting conspiracy theories about the Clintons. Trump promised in the 2016 campaign to “lock her up,” referring to Hillary Rodham Clinton for her illegal emails with her private server. “The president of the United States just retweeted this conspiratorial s***,” said former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Il.), rejecting Trump’s Epstein tweet. “The is another example of our president using his position of public trust to attack his political enemies with unfounded conspiracy theories,” said O’Rourke. O’Rouke has led the charge in the campaign blaming Trump for inciting mass murder.
