This is the first time I've heard you say that even if there's nothing there, the MAGA base won't believe it so he's got a problem. Perhpas I missed it.

Yeah, I've mentioned that's a big possibility:

They will be exceedingly angry if Trump were to tell them that there's nothing there. The most likely response will be disbelief and to start thinking Trump's part of the cover-up: if Trump isn't marching the Evil Sex Abusers off to jail, then he must be part of the Evil Sex Abuser Protection Establishment. They can't have been wrong about the Establishment Politicians engaging in terrible sex abuse. That would mean that all their anger, all their sense of horrible injustice, all of the time and energy they devoted to all of this was wasted. That can't be correct.

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...and elsewhere in that thread.

To MAGA (and QAnon before them, and PizzaGate as well) there has to be a "Client List." There has to be evidence, known to the federal government, of an evil and powerful group of pedophiles who use their connections and money to protect themselves. If Trump doesn't release it, it means he's trying to conceal it.

I suppose it's possible that some of them would look at an Epstein File release that didn't have a Client List and acknowledge they were wrong. But that's not typically how conspiracy theory believers react. Contrary evidence is just proof that the conspiracy goes deeper than even they thought. So again, the most likely outcome is that folks like Cernovich and Posobiec go out to the MAGA faithful and tell them that someone must have got to Trump. It can't possibly be the case that Cernovich and Posobiec were wrong - it has to be that even the Trump Administration is willing to keep the cover-up going.