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Epstein’s Ghost and the Many Sides of Conspiracism [ThreeWayFight]

Epstein’s Ghost and the Many Sides of Conspiracism [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 1, 2025.] The Trump administration’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal put conspiracy theories back in the headlines. It has also highlighted that assessing conspiracy theories’ political meaning and significance can be complicated. Epstein, financier and convicted child sex offender, died in prison in 2019 five weeks after being arrested on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide, but suspicions that he was murdered to stop him from testifying against other powerful people have been integral to right-wing conspiracy theories about pedophile elites ever since. That populist anger...

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