Of Timothy L. O’Brien

Conspiracy theories, especially those involved rich and powerful, are difficult, perhaps impossible, to be limited. They are based on the assumption that elites are plotting to deceive the masses or cover illegalities. No revelation is sufficient to stop suspicions that feed conspiracy theories, because by their nature they assume that deception is designed to last forever. The truth may never be revealed. Something will always remain hidden. The “system” is against you.

This has come decades of rumors and theories about Kennedy’s murder and region 51. And now we have the theory of Conspiracy of Jeffrey Estain.

There are several unpleasant or vague aspects in these three examples to acquire conspiracy dynamics. It didn’t seem to be reasonable that Jack Ruby managed to get close to Lee Harvey Oswald or that Oswald shot Kennedy on his own. If there were no aliens or UFOs in the area 51, why the army carried out expensive investigations and what explains the strange incidents in Nevada? How can Estain be found hanging in his cell in Manhattan in 2019, and what about the “secret list” of powerful people who may have helped him to act undisturbed as a victim of abuse and trafficking for so long?

Donald Trump, experienced in changing opinions, has used conspiracy theories with so zeal and consistency that he could well replace the red Maga hat with a foil hat. However, the attempt to get politically distanced from his relationship with Estain and the consequences of federal investigations on the doomed broker proves to be a serious and intractable problem. He is now in the whirlwind of a conspiracy theory that he himself has reinforced and no obvious way out of the way seems to slow down his fall.

This was always the case when scandals intersect with Washington – but this period is peculiar, purely “trampic”, uncontrolled and … karmic.

Trump and his supporters have made the most of the right -wing conspiracy theories that showed the Democrats as members of pedophilia and trafficking. Hillary Clinton and the Pizzagate case led to Qanon, which was distributing the idea that the “deep state” of the Democrats supported child sexual exploitation. Trump encouraged his most ardent followers to believe that he had come to dismantle such networks. So, when Estain died while being persecuted for trafficking minors, Trump, his old acquaintance, passed the counterattack.

“I know the case is being investigated by Attorney General Bar and I am sure he will manage it properly,” he said after Estein’s death in 2019. “I want complete investigation and I demand.” (Bar finally agreed with the initial findings of suicide.)

When Tucker Carlson accused the bar of covering Estain’s death in an interview with Trump, the latter did not react. On the contrary, he took advantage of the moment to further accuse the bar because he did not support the other conspiracy theory that the 2020 elections had been stolen. During his election campaign for 2024, Trump said he would publicize Estain’s “Customer List”, if any. After his election, he placed Pam Bodi, Ms Patel and Dan Bodzino, fanatical theories around Estain, in top positions in the US law enforcement mechanism. Maybe he thought the truth would be revealed.

But dreams don’t always come true. When the FBI and the Ministry of Justice officially announced that Estain committed suicide and that there was no secret list of customers, the MAGA movement collapsed. Now, even Trump’s supporters themselves are calling on him to reveal what he knows about Estain, while the Democrats rub their hands. Paradoxical alliances, as my colleagues Nia-Malika Henderson and Matt Glesias have pointed out, but this is the situation.

Trump is now in a difficult position to try to put on the bottle of Estain’s “Gin” in the bottle, the same that has helped to be released. He described the pressure he receives “Democratic farce”. Is not. He said that the media are to blame for his difficulties. Is not the case. However, instead of stopping weak arguments, Trump escalates the confrontation.

Following a Wall Street Journal report that revealed a provocative birthday card with the signature of Trump, who was in a gift to Estain in 2003, Trump filed a lawsuit against the newspaper reporters and his owners, Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. In order to win the trial, he must prove that a careful and methodical medium has published something false in his knowledge or with recklessness. Also, if he insists, he will have to withstand the legal process during which a multitude of possibly annoying elements of his relationship with Estain will be revealed. (In 2011, Trump lost a defamation lawsuit he had filed against me for my biography Trumpnation.)

To make things more difficult, Trump promised to bring Rupert Murdoch, the most powerful of WSJ owners, to the dock to testify about the “pile of rubbish”, as he described the newspaper. Murdoch, of course, also controls Fox, the television network that has been the main platform for Trump for the dissemination of conspiracy theories. Everything is extremely complicated.

WSJ is not the only one to research. Trump still has a lot of pressure to face as the case of Estain remains in the spotlight. The New York Times reported Sunday that a woman who provided information to the FBI about Estain and Trump may be linked to material that remains confidential to federal files.

Trump asked his justice minister, Pam Bodi, to publicize deposits before the Federal Jurdish Corps on investigation against Estain before his death. It may take years for this to happen, and even if it is released, many parties will have been censored. Another investigative material, such as the one mentioned by the nights, may not be revealed a secret.

Censored deposits that will be revealed over time will not satisfy Trump’s most loyal followers. They call on right -wing emissions and podcasts, expressing their anger. The presenters know why.

“I’m talking on behalf of the base, and the base now identifies Estain’s envelopes with justice,” Conservative Podcaster Liz Willer in the Washington Post said. “People feel they are hiding something and are rightly reacting.”

Trump, the absolute conspiracy, knows something more: whatever he reveals, he will never be enough. “Nothing will satisfy the rioters and the radical left crazy who make these demands,” he wrote on Truth Social on Saturday. “They will always ask for another, and another, and another. Maga! “

The president walks on a politically dangerous route. And he has carved her himself.