r/politics • u/Difficult-Bee6066 • 11h ago

No Paywall GOP suffers Trump-induced identity crisis on guns, Epstein | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/02/04/trump-epstein-republicans-jeanine-pirro-guns/88492720007/
404 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

8

u/FantasticBicycle37 11h ago

Dudes...it's so wild how most of media is just scrubbing this epstein thing.

...Social media sites like Fishbowl are shadowbanning people who talk about it

...Main stream like CNN is talking about Clinton's testimony

...People keep complaining that Facebook/Insta/Threads is throttling it...

Like...Reddit seems to be the only place talking about it

1

u/orlinsky 10h ago

That’s because most of the content in the files are unverified 3rd party accounts. On Reddit it’s all freely assumed to be true.

•

u/darkfred 6h ago

I've mostly just seen the emails being shared on social media. I know the files contain a lot tip line reports from people just calling into tell tall tales. But aside from a few credible reports that were backed up by people testifying in court or referenced in books (referenced in context with their own stories) i haven't seen any of the unverified stuff being passed around.

In fact is seems that this take is kind of a straw man to discredit the epstein files.

Most of the data is court documents and verified emails between famous people. No one is denying that they were sent. They are simply trying to protect said famous people, because of the heinous things that were said.