Political and psychological motivations behind Epstein conspiracy theories

Lauren Stephen
5 min readAug 12, 2019
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Even before Jeffrey Epstein died from an apparent suicide, conspiracy theories were running wild about him. In an attempt to shield President Donald Trump, who had publicly praised Epstein and posed in photos with him, some Trump supporters started a conspiracy theory about pictures of Epstein and Bill Clinton being scrubbed from Google. Complete bunk of course…

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Lauren Stephen

Writer, editor, technical writer, part-time lecturer, and semi-professional stand-up comic based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.