With the blizzard of declassified documents coming out of Washington, if you weren’t paying attention, you might be tempted to conclude that financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was killed because he had information on the hoax attempting to tie Donald Trump and the 2016 presidential campaign to Russia, which had ordered the 1963 death of President John F. Kennedy, who had given the order that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. be killed five years hence because he had damning information on the Clintons.
Got it?
What’s worse, with the rise of artificial intelligence, people are liable to see from unreliable sources conflated scenarios like the one above — and believe all or most of it. And once such opinions are formed, it’s hard to dissuade someone of what they’ve heard or read.
But let’s review:
› Government files on the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein long have been rumored to contain names of prominent people involved in his world of scandal, including former President Bill Clinton, British Prince Andrew and current President Donald Trump. Not long after he was inaugurated in January, Trump, by extension of Attorney General Pam Bondi, teased the release of the files. Trump backers enthusiastically endorsed the release, expected it would clear Trump (why else would he have tacitly endorsed the release?) and tarnish people like Clinton.