By now, nearly everyone who is paying attention and not trapped in the Trump/MAGA cult/tribe/demagoguery understands that they are routinely being lied to, slandered, insulted, emotionally manipulated and so forth. Years ago, the situation progressed far beyond the point of there being good rational arguments that Trump or MAGA elites could be trusted.
Nonetheless, tens of millions of adult Americans still trust Trump and MAGA demagoguery at least enough to continue to support them. That constitutes an ongoing, major threat to US democracy, rule of law and civil liberties.
Various news sources are reporting about the Epstein files that were released yesterday by the DOJ. Trump's personal law firm. What MAGA elites released is what reasonable people can now expect, nothingburgers that protect MAGA and Trump, with their deep corruption, moral sleaze and blatant authoritarianism. One report indicates that out of several thousand pages of documents that the MAGA DOJ released, at least 550 pages were completely redacted or blacked out.
One can be confident that anything bad or criminal in the documents related to Trump and his key allies was redacted to protect them. That just what a personal law firm does for its clients.
It is possible that at least some of the redactions were for legitimate purposes, e.g., to protect innocent victims' identity. But one can still be confident that redactions to protect Trump and his allies are also present and probably dominant.
That distrust is just a rational result after years and thousands of lies and betrayals by Trump and MAGA elites. What is remarkable is the tens of millions who actually still believe him and MAGA elites.
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