Last week the folks at Fox News pretended the ‘Epstein files’ didn’t exist while everyone at the network got extremely worked up over an American Eagle commercial that featured the actress, Sydney Sweeney. The advertisement was yet another culture war fixation meant to distract from Trump’s possible involvement with the sex trafficking of underage girls.

The political furor surrounding the Epstein files has reached the rare distinction of being a bipartisan crusade. Americans across the political spectrum have become obsessed with the mysterious circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death, his once close relationship with the president of the United States and the secrecy surrounding documents related to his alleged sex trafficking operation.

Trump and his intelligence officials promised they would declassify everything related to Jeffrey Epstein once they had the power to do so. After months of excuses Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel along with Deputy Director Dan Bongino told the American public that there was nothing to reveal.

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