BY JOE CONASON When Donald Trump retweeted a malicious fantasy about the apparent suicide of imprisoned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he wasn’t merely entertaining his deluded fans. Trump’s conspiratorial canard – with attendant promotion by Russian bots, American alt-rightists and far-right media – was plainly designed to deflect attention from his own embarrassing associations with Epstein. For him to insinuate the Clintons are responsible for Epstein’s demise was brazenly absurd. Were Bill and Hillary supposed to […]

Why Trump Tweeted A Conspiracy Smear
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