MAGA Is Rewriting The Epstein Timeline
We are slowly entering a world in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden fabricated the whole Epstein story.
by Bob Cesca
WASHINGTON, DC – There are so many reasons why fascism can’t be allowed to succeed in America, it’s difficult to know where that list begins and ends. But one thing we know for sure is that winning factions tend to write history. In this case, we can’t allow Donald Trump and the MAGA movement to win the current political war, not just to preserve our democracy but to preserve our reality.
We’ve witnessed the beginning stages of fascist revisionism as the Trump regime scrubs museums and websites of anything that’s even vaguely related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This week, we learned that the National Park Service could be removing books about the Civil War as well as volumes about “slavery, Native Americans and George Washington” from its visitor centers. The Washington Post:
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March that instructed the Smithsonian and the national parks to remove “improper ideology,” which could include discussions of historic racism and sexism.
It’s likely that once the American story is purged of anything that elevates the contributions, enslavement, and persecution of non-whites, the newly emptied spaces will be filled with hagiographies about white nationalism, fascist movements, and Donald Trump.
Speaking of Donald himself, if you watch closely enough you’ll see Donald and his most vocal supporters trying to rewrite the history of his toxic partnership with Jeffrey Epstein.
You might’ve seen the clips on social media of longtime right-wing disinformer Bill O’Reilly desperately monkeying with the timeline surrounding the second prosecution of Epstein. He appeared shockingly befuddled and incapable of understanding who was president when Epstein was arrested and died in jail. (By the way, yes, even though he was fired from Fox News for being a serial sex pest, O’Reilly still appears on the NewsNation network – one of several Fox News copycat platforms.)
“Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration,” O’Reilly said.
“Hold on, Bill,” [NewsNation host Leland] Vittert interrupted. “You said Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration. Epstein committed suicide during the Trump administration.”
The segment went on and on like this. Vittert repeatedly tried to explain that Epstein was arrested and died in 2019, but O’Reilly refused to accept it. At one point, he insisted that Merrick Garland was the attorney general in 2019, even though Donald was president and Bill Barr was attorney general.
It’s very possible that more than a few viewers believed O’Reilly, which may have been the point. If just a fraction of the people watching believed O’Reilly, then the revised history, dropping Epstein’s death in the hands of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, gained a foothold.
This week, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) appeared on CNN and tried to say that Epstein received a “sweetheart plea deal” under Barack Obama. Jake Tapper corrected him, explaining that the plea deal occurred in 2008 under George W. Bush and U.S. attorney Alex Acosta, Donald’s eventual first term Labor Secretary. But Markwayne wouldn’t have it, insisting Obama was president in 2008.
See what’s happening here? Yet another MAGA operative injected revisionist history into the minds of viewers. After all, who’s more likely to be trusted: the good old boy from Oklahoma or one of the alleged “enemies of the people?”
And then there’s Donald himself. While returning aboard Air Force One from his $10 million taxpayer-funded grifter golf outing in Scotland, he told the press that Epstein “stole” (a word generally used in the context of property) 16- or 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-lago spa.
By Giuffre’s own account, she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell and hired by Epstein in 2000. Donald added that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-lago “shortly after” that. But two journalists from the Miami Herald reported that Epstein wasn’t banned from Donald’s resort until 2007. In other words, Donald didn’t cut ties with Epstein until after he was indicted the first time. (It’s also worth noting that Donald failed to report what he knew about Epstein to authorities. Why?)
But once again, more revisionist history. They’re trying to move events around to confuse casual observers, while establishing an alternative timeline to exonerate Trump. Toss into the mix the ever-shifting nonsense about the Epstein files being a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats who, by the way, decided to never actually release their falsified documents implicating Donald.
If things go the way they’ve gone in the past, Donald will wear down any MAGA dissenters by his sheer repetition of revisionist bullshit and, from there, should the Fascist Party win more elections, we’ll slowly find ourselves living in a world in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden fabricated the whole Epstein story, and Donald will be entirely exonerated. It’s what he did with COVID and January 6, so it’s a con-job that’s worked in the past. But no more. Not this time.
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