The "Epstein files" and Melania's "deepfake" testimony are attempts to hide Trump's violent misogyny

[marmar]

The "Epstein files" and Melania's "deepfake" testimony are attempts to hide Trump's violent misogyny
After the release of accused rapist Andrew Tate, MAGA media desperately pretends Trump opposes sexual violence

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published March 5, 2025 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Pam Bondi is still pretending she's on the verge of a big reveal about the crimes of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Last week, Donald Trump's new attorney general and a clutch of grifty MAGA "influencers" pretended they had unearthed a trove of information about Epstein that they falsely claimed had been concealed by the previous administration. Within hours after the influencers stood outside the White House and waved binders specially made for the occasion labeled "Epstein Files," it was revealed that the stunt was as empty as the reality TV deitrius that inspired it. QAnon-drunk MAGA social media users believed they were going to get stories about prominent Democrats and major Hollywood stars engaging in child sacrifice. When all they received was confirmation of what was already known about Epstein's decades of abusing teenage girls — which is hardly considered a real crime in Trump's GOP — they couldn't hide their disappointment, whining that the "Epstein Files" must be "fake."

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Most of the mainstream media ignored this, having recognized that Bondi is putting on a dog and pony show for the QAnon crowd, which believes in an international conspiracy of Democrats and Hollywood celebrities to molest and kill children, before consuming them in Satanic cannibalism rituals. But the right-wing press is still hyping Bondi's breathless promises. The timing of Bondi's transparent stunt is especially telling. All this is happening while misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, accused of sex trafficking and rape, has suddenly been released by the Romanian government to the United States, where he can hide from charges in both Romania and Great Britain for his alleged sex crimes.

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It's not a surprise that Trump embraces a man who says "I love raping" and who bragged about how he controls women with "bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck." Trump himself is on tape crowing about how he likes to "grab them by" the genitals, and was found liable by a civil jury for sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll. As Michelle Goldberg wrote recently in the New York Times, Trump regards past accusations of sexual abuse as a resume-polisher for jobs in his administration, believing abuse highlights his values of "power, aggression, hierarchy and leader-worship." A staggering number of Trump's appointees and his shadow president, Elon Musk, have been accused of sexual abuse.

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That's why QAnon exists. Trump voters don't like it when people correctly point out that they backed a man who bragged about committing sexual assault and who was found by a civil jury to have acted on that boast. It's not fun, being the bad guy! So a lot of them construct this elaborate fantasy where Trump isn't a sexual predator, but a hero secretly fighting the "real" sexual predators. And the crimes they make up in their heads are so grotesque — child sexual abuse, cannibalism, murder — that it makes real accusations against Trump seem minor in comparison. Trump is redeemed through this myth that he's taking on imaginary villains far worse than he is, and therefore, supporters can believe they are redeemed for backing him. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/05/the-epstein-files-and-melanias-deepfake-testimony-are-attempts-to-hide-violent-misogyny/

[kacekwl]

1. Maga knows he is a pig and

rapist and they love it sooo ...

[FakeNoose]

2. Aren't MAGA "influencers" mostly bots controlled by Putin?

Just sayin'