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Not sure why you want to push this MAGA narrative, but go for it.
I think you misunderstand the "MAGA narrative."
The belief that the government is covering up pedophilia rings for the rich and powerful was a pretty significant part of the alt-right movement - it gave rise to "PizzaGate" and was a core belief of all the QAnon folks. That was QAnon in a nutshell - the believe that Donald Trump was waging a secret war against a satanist pedophile ring being protected by the Deep State. They were awaiting the Storm - a day of reckoning when all these horrible people would be brought to account and executed.
When Epstein was busted, that became an integral part of the QAnon/Trump mythos for these folks. When the Storm never happened and Trump left office, the belief morphed into the idea that Biden and the Democrats were now protecting all these folks, and that after Trump was re-elected then finally that day of reckoning would happen. That Trump would finally strip the elitist pedophile cabal of their government protection.
Which, of course, didn't happen - because of course there isn't a secret band of satanist pedophiles being protected by the Federal Government. But a non-trivial slice of the MAGA base believed that, and were very very upset when Trump (and Bondi and especially Bongino who promoted that theory on his podcast) didn't act on it. That's why the Epstein file bill was able to be forced out of the House on a discharge petition - there's just too many MAGA Republicans that believed there was something hidden in the files.
Now that the files have been released (as much as they will be), it will be interesting to see if this slice of the GOP base moves on, or if they continue to insist that there are a whole bunch of people who are actually known to the government to be actual satanic pedophiles that are being protected.
