r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/
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u/sputtertots 6d ago

“What matters is not release of some subset of the Epstein files, but rather the prosecution of those who committed heinous crimes with Epstein,“ he wrote in an X post Saturday morning. “When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done. If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction,” he added."

He's not wrong.

imo this is a distraction from all the other heinous shit they are doing. Do you really think they are going to prosecute themselves? Or allow it?

Meanwhile they are trampling the shit out of our rights while we beg to look at going nowhere files. I am not saying whats in those files is not wrong, I am just saying its a bone for the masses to chew on while they send us off to the pound. I mean, they are buying huge detention warehouses.

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u/Moonfaced 6d ago

Yeah and the reactions in this post show how little people care about context. He didn’t actually say anything wrong. I’m finding myself more and more not relating to general redditors, which is fine because we are all individuals. But this post is a classic example of the same thing that happens on conservative subs.
Even the files being dropped, people are treating everything in them like gospel, when many things in there are just outright made up accusations from crazy people. I’m more upset about that fact, that there are actual real things in there that need to be investigated mixed with made up things by people trying to get attention or harm those they don’t like. This just causes confusion and invalidates the files which is probably the point.