It might seem odd that out of everything that has happened in the first six months of Donald Trump's second term, it's a years-old investigation of a dead sex offender that has sparked such turmoil in the Maga universe.
But for some of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters, this case is about much more than terrible crimes carried out by a powerful man.
They see the continued questions swirling around Epstein as prime evidence of their belief in a "deep state" that is plotting against ordinary Americans.
This conspiratorial world view is a major strain of Maga thought. And the very real Epstein case has been subsumed into broader and less factual narratives – such as Pizzagate, the false claim that a child sex abuse ring was being run out of a Washington restaurant, and QAnon, the sprawling interactive conspiracy theory that posits that the world is being run by an elite Satanic cabal.
Maga influencer Jack Posobiec, who himself initially gained fame spreading Pizzagate rumours, recently explained the views of his audience on a podcast.
"It's not that they care about Epstein personally," he said. "It's that they care that there's this optic that Epstein was somehow involved with a shadowy system that actually has control over our government, control over our institutions, control of our lives, and really is a ruling power over us."
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