The expression Efecto Streisand It serves to identify that moment when someone, normally someone powerful, tries to bury information that harms and achieves exactly the opposite: that the world speaks without stopping it. The origin owes the popular culture to singer Barbra Streisand, who on one occasion wanted to prevent a photo of her house from being published in front of the sea and only managed to multiply the scrutiny of public opinion.
The president of the United States has been trying by all the media that no one speaks on the Epstein list, But there is no way: to every new attempt to bury it emerges with more force.
Last weekend he asked for his own – to his “boys” and “girls” of the Maga Movement, as defined in a message in his social network, Truth – that they let the matter be and that give as valid the explanations of the Department of Justice, whose boss, the attorney general Pam Bondi, has been saying “nothing to see here”, like the police of this country before the scene of a crime that attracts the crime that attracts the crime that attracts the crime that attracts the crime.
The fact is that even one of the most faithful and influential “boys” of Trump, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, joined on Tuesday those who ask for the dissemination of the information that works in the hands of the authorities about Jeffrey Epstein, a millionaire pederagas who died hanged in 2019 in a New York prison while waiting for his trial for sexual trafficking of minors. “It is a very delicate issue, but we should share everything there and let people decide,” said Republican congressman in an interview with Benny Johnson, famous podcaster right.
A few hours later, the president of the United States showed on Wednesday his helplessness and anger in another post in Truth in which he asks his followers not to follow the game to the Democrats with his “new scam”, “The Bulo de Jeffrey Epstein.” “They have chopped with that asshole. They have not learned the lesson [sus simpatizantes]and they will never learn it, then eight years of deception of the lunatic left ”in matters such as Russian interference or the case of Hunter Biden laptop, two of his obsessions.
In his message, Trump also complains that his “former followers” do not celebrate the “success” of his first six months since he returned to the White House. “May these cowards continue and do the work of the Democrats!”, He writes, in reference, apparently, the followers who, from the magician depths have proven that they do not plan to give up the demand for explanations about one of their favorite conspiracy. “I don’t want your support anymore!”
Theories around both the circumstances of Epstein’s death and his archives – a sum of the flight records of his jet Private, summary materials and a black notebook with an alleged list of clients that would demonstrate the existence of a global elite dedicated to minors trafficking – they have been feeding the magic imagination for years. They were also one of the glue of the Qanon ideology, whose acolytes are perfectly able to believe that the coronavirus invented it to inoculate in the microchips population designed to control it and obtain a drug called adrenocrome with its promise of immortality.
The difference between the wild years of the opposition to the administration of Biden and these six months of the second It was Trump It is that those who encouraged these theories from the margins have moved to the center. Either they are in the government or belong to the same club as officials who now ask them to forget all that.
Two of the most prominent believers in the theories around Epstein are (or were) the director and deputy director of the FBI, Kash Patel and Dan Bognino. The FBI seal was one of the two who adorned the leaked document a pair of Sundays (the other corresponded to the Department of Justice) with two conclusions: the compromising list of powerful men from Washington, Hollywood and Wall Street of Epstein does not exist, and he committed suicide in jail, because nobody, as they want to try two videos of almost 11 hours made public last week, crossed the door last week. From his cell that night he died.
According to the magazine in these computer archives, three minutes are missing, and see how you explain that absence to the tribe of the extremely skeptics with the official versions.
Both Patel and Bognino have sworn in the past that they will not stop until all the secrets about Epstein, so having to swallow now the official version is not a dish of pleasure, especially for Bognino, which, before assuming their position, had a podcast in which he fed all kinds of conspiracies.
Since their environment, they raised the crisis – and their resignation threat – as a dilemma: either he or the attorney general Bondi, who has passed in a few days of star of the magic movement due splendor of this.
Defendiendo a Pam Bondi
The president has repeatedly defended the Attorney General. This Tuesday he did it again. He praised his “great work.” A journalist asked him if Bondi had specified him if his name appeared on the Epstein list, given its past in common that attest the photographs and videos of the time. “No, no. He made a very brief report. That list invented it [el antiguo director del FBI, James] Comey, y [los expresidentes Barack] Obama, [Joe] Biden …, ”Trump replied, confident, perhaps that no one would remember that Epstein was charged and died in 2019, when the Republican was president, and that the case dates back to 2005, when neither eats, nor obama, nor Biden were in a position to invent anything that had consequences such as those that Trump is now suffering. He does not leave, with everything, of being ironic that the defender of conspira. He said that Obama was not born in the United States or that other that argued that Ohio’s Haitians eat pets is testing these days from his own medicine.
Last week, Trump lost his nerves at a meeting of his cabinet when asked about the financial one of sex trafficking. “Why are you still talking about him?” He replied. This Tuesday, gave another version of that argument: “I do not understand what interest and fascination is [por la lista]. Reliable information has been given. Is [un tema] Sordid, but quite boring. ”Trump also drained the bulge in Bondi, which he invited to publish, if he considered it necessary,” anything that is credible “about Epstein.
The attorney general, meanwhile, had appeared before the press a couple of hours before, with a tense gesture and that half -petrified smile on the face. He came to talk about the achievements of his department in the fight against drug trafficking, but assaulted him with questions about Epstein. He refused several times to comment on the matter, and said he was confident that Trump was not going to withdraw his trust: “I will be in the position all the time that the president wants, and I think he has left it very clear. It’s four years. Well, three and a half now, don’t we?
If Trump thought that his weekend call to quiet the magician waters was going to solve the matter, it is perhaps because he was not thinking of Barbra Streisand. Since his administration published the two -page document that tried to settle the suspicions, his messages on social networks are answered by pissed off users, instead of the large tribe of his palm trees.
And those who, like Charlie Kirk, ultra proselytizing of the Maga Youth, said on Monday that they were ready to spend the page have had to eat their words by popular acclamation, while they do not seem willing to forget referents such as Steve Bannon, who has warned Trump of the danger of losing the medium -term elections for this matter Conspiranoica, or Laura Loomer.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the matter is to see these days how the critical news chains with Trump (CNN or MSNBC), which have been fighting the theories of the conspiracy on Epstein for years, they now take advantage of them to attack the president for an unexpected flank discovered from the inside of the Maga Movement. Meanwhile, the conservative press maintains a low profile.
The Wall Street Journal On Tuesday he published an article by Alan Dershowitz, lawyer of the financial, in which he writes: “Epstein never had a ‘client list’. The FBI interviewed alleged victims, and they appointed several of those ‘clients’. Their names have been censored. They should be disclosed, but the courts have ordered that they remain under secret. We do not know if the accusations are true. ”
Even the Democrats see themselves comfortable as strange bedmates of the Maga ideologues. Its leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, supported this week an initiative to force Trump’s administration to publish the documents related to the case that are now on the table of the Attorney General Bondi. In a typically Washingtonian pirouette, Mike Johnson, the same speaker Republican who asks for transparency in an extreme right podcast, opposed parliamentary headquarters, and together with the rest of his party, to the dissemination of those secrets that have caused the first serious crisis, not encouraged by his enemies, of the second Trump legislature.
