The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is not going away: Readers and streaming customers can’t get enough of the true crime story

Ah, Donald, you nearly did it. We almost forgot. The media swirl so very nearly moved away, onto the next hoopla prize your hat falls on. The Jeffrey Epstein case, underneath a mountain of tariffs, Iranian nukes, Israeli handshakes, and Tesla tantrums, was but a distant memory of the past.

But the bubble was already too big: Pam Bondi said the files were on her desk; mysterious doodles emerged with cryptic messages sent to Epstein; Maxwell was moved from one prison to another; and you yourself admitted that you “never had the privilege” of going to the island. With your campaign having run on a promise of releasing the files, the pressure was too much.

Then the bubble burst: the FBI said there were no Epstein files, and no client list of the sex offender ever existed. Go figure.

And this time, it’s not even the Woke Lefties© who are attacking you, it’s your buddies on the right who he managed to stir up, strike fear into, and sit like recoiled springs, ready to strike.

The Jeffrey Epstein case was the golden goose of the presidential run for a large section of right-wing voters—the ones who believe in the Deep State, faking the moon landing, CIA agents killing JFK, and that the government is just a ploy to keep us all quiet. You stood against all that, promising to be a regular man on the inside, unafraid to come into power, smash up the broken establishment, and tear it all down—revealing the secrets to the public once and for all.

Only this time, for — ahem — some reason, the punchline to the story you have been promising to tell for so long cannot be revealed.

As your approval ratings drop and Republicans begin to cry foul, public fascination with the Epstein case has skyrocketed. The people are not tired of the stories, the rumours, the crimes allegedly committed. They’re moving in large numbers to consume media based on the story that involves—may I add, in no proven criminal way—the President.

CNN reports that copies of investigative reporter Julie K. Brown’s 2021 book Perversion of Justice, about Epstein, “have been snapped up by buyers in recent weeks,” with “a dramatic spike in people searching for more information about the matter” occurring after the FBI’s findings.

U.S. viewership of the Netflix docuseries on the case rose 268 percent, with Google Trends also reporting a spike in searches. Your inability to silence the chatter only caused interest to increase—like throwing water on an electrical fire.

The more our government covers up for Epstein, the more fearful I become because I keep thinking, ‘Who is this guy? Who are the people that are in these files?’,“ Brown told CNN.

And with that, you have lost your weakening grip on the people who once voted for the anti-establishment, anti-cover-up, conspiracy theory–fuelled rhetoric—the same rhetoric that has been key to the populist politics used since you first stepped onto the scene. The people are wiser than you thought, and this broken promise might just be one step too far.

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