Hanne Nabintu Herland devotes her July 31 WorldNetDaily column to buying into the “hoax” conspiracy theory about the Epstein files:
Certainly, if there was anything incriminating about President Donald Trump in the so-called Epstein files, the Biden regime would have smeared it across mainstream media long ago. This to discourage anyone from supporting Trump and ravage his conservative MAGA movement. The now sudden Democrat media attempt to divide the MAGA movement and Trump’s support base by creating the impression that the president was involved in Epstein’s pedophilia, is a cunning move to divide and conquer.
[…]The Democrats’ sudden interest in the files is definitively puzzling. The Biden administration sat on the files for years without publishing its content, and could easily have tampered with the content and added or removed vital information on, for example Bill Clinton, who allegedly visited the Epstein Island around 30 times, or Bill Gates, who reportedly was there many times. President Trump now called the Epstein Files “a hoax that has been built up way beyond proportion,” and repeated that if there were any inculpatory information in the files about him, it would have been made public a long time ago, as reported by American Greatness.
If the Epstein files are a “hoax,” then there’s no reason for Herland to believe those claims about Clinton and Gates. And if they are the “hoax” Trump and Herland insist they are, why not release everything regarding it? Herland doesn’t answer that question. Instead, she was more interested in sucking up to Trump:
This week, President Trump was in Scotland reaching immensely important trade agreements with the European Union, averting a trade war with the United States’ primary trading partner. Trump is currently achieving all-time high success. The massively profitable deal with a weakened Europe signifies the most important agreement to date in an ongoing effort to reform the global trading system by imposing higher tariffs on U.S. trading partners. The radical tariff plan spells the end of the socialist tariff system in which U.S. goods have been charged much higher tariffs than when other nations export their goods into America. The deal was made in Turnberry, Trump’s golf resort in western Scotland, and was described as the biggest of all the international deals done so far.
[…]Trump argued that the American people see through the hoax. It is a cunning attempt to divide the MAGA movement and destroy it from within, if the tampered files were presented to the public, rewritten and changed to fit the Democrat narrative. It may easily have been designated to create a new “Russiagate hoax,” now an Epstein Files hoax, that would have run for years in the press with lies and slander, carefully designed by Trump’s enemies as another bullet in the chamber designated to kill the MAGA movement and the president’s legacy.
Herland has to believe that in order to justify her support for the amoral Trump.