"The MAGA mediasphere has been convulsing with disingenuous skepticism since the release of the depraved birthday greeting heard 'round the world. When Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team leaked the brothers-in-predation message that Donald Trump shared with high-flying pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday, Trump and his movement had stoutly denied the existence of any such communiqué. In a standard move of media intimidation, Trump filed suit against The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, alleging in his complaint that the document was a fabrication."
"Yet plausibility is not the point of the counteroffensive here; rather, it is to kick up conspiratorial speculations so that no one discusses the damning nature of this latest twist in the Epstein saga. For this maneuver, the right has a template even more successful than Trump's birther crusade: the 2004 scandal involving a botched news report on President George W. Bush's military service."
"It's the same labored exercise in political demonology that Trump himself pioneered in his evidence-free campaign to suggest that Barack Obama was not a US citizen: In that reverie, cunning deep-state operatives forged Obama's US birth certificate in 1961, since it was plain as day that a mixed-race newborn was destined to ascend to the presidency 47 years later."
After Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team leaked a birthday message that Donald Trump sent to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and allies denied its existence and sued The Wall Street Journal claiming fabrication. The surfaced document, and redacted contents of Maxwell's 238-page birthday book, prompted the MAGA apparatus to allege the Trump entry is a forgery. The forgery claim implies a 2003 false-flag planting intended to yield damaging intelligence decades later. The strategy echoes prior conspiracy campaigns such as birtherism and the politicized response to the 2004 60 Minutes report, serving to generate conspiratorial noise and divert attention from disturbing revelations about Epstein.
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