The Art of Misdirection: Trump Invades Cities to Quash Epstein Fever

By Nick Licata
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There is a clear link between media coverage of the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s files and Trump’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops and Marines into the Democratic-leaning cities of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Trump has also promised to send troops into other cities that heavily voted for Democrats. These actions will divert public and media attention away from ongoing calls to release the files that the government holds.

Trump is more afraid that an embarrassing connection to Epstein might be exposed than he is about Democrats filing lawsuits or the fact that 47% of adults nationwide disapprove of him sending Marines into L.A. Public opinion doesn’t weigh as heavily as maintaining support from the MAGA base. These supporters are mostly rural and small-town residents, not people from big cities. They aren’t worried about troops in large cities, but they do want to uncover the hidden, nefarious details in the Epstein files.

Trump knows that his supporters care more about providing safety and moral stability for their families than about constitutional limits on his power. By attacking Democrats as immoral, anti-family, corrupt, and weak on crime—especially by accusing them of tolerating pedophilia—he promises to remove these terrible people from government.

Trump joined the conspiracy movement to help him become president

Trump promoted the extreme Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which surfaced in late 2016 after WikiLeaks published the unsecured Gmail account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, just six weeks before the election. The alt-right conspiracy collective QAnon weaponized Pizzagate as part of its overarching campaign to attract support for President Donald Trump, according to research done by sociologist Paul Bleakley of Middlesex University, UK.

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