
Systematic child abuse and exploitation is real. But it's the established facts of his crimes that make him a useful character in an extended universe of fringe bogeymen. Those relationships are potent examples for conspiracists to cast all nearly all political events as driven by hidden, sex-fueled abuses and coverups.Įpstein's death by suicide in jail under Bureau of Prisons custody also fueled a popular wave of theories and memes. Britain's Prince Andrew lost his royal privileges over sexual assault allegations involving Epstein. He hobnobbed with Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Donald Trump. One clear reason for the staying power of conspiracy theories involving Epstein is his frequent socializing with the world's rich and famous. This is just the latest spike of Epstein-related yarn-spinning, but Epstein is likely to remain a narrative for some on the right for years to come. Within days, the false claim took off in far-right circles, drawing the attention of Fox News, which later had to issue a clarification for airing an edited picture that falsely showed Reinhart next to Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted as an accomplice to many of Epstein's crimes. Reinhart just happened to be available that night. In the case of the Mar-a-Lago search, the Miami Herald reported any magistrate judge would have signed off on the warrant when presented with probable cause from the FBI. While in private practice, federal magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart had previously represented some of Epstein's employees who had also been accused of facilitating sex trafficking. The claim, repeated across fringe threads and deceiving "headlines," is misleading. Don't question it!" Posobiec posted to his 185,000 Telegram followers. "We now know the judge who signed off on the Mar-a-Lago raid was Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer. When the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in early August, it took less than a day for far-right internet personality Jack Posobiec to summon Epstein's ghost. In death, speculation about his suicide in jail formed an additional layer of conspiratorial fog around his legacy.
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In life, Epstein was a secretive financier, arrested for a series of sexual crimes with underaged girls. Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for three years, but his ghost still wanders the dark halls of the internet.
