Proper distraction
A recent survey indicates that a notable portion of Americans think that the controversy surrounding the Epstein files and President Donald Trump might have played a role in escalating the conflict between the U.S. and Iran.
Trump promised to release the Epstein files while campaigningA recent survey indicates that a notable portion of Americans think that the controversy surrounding the Epstein files and President Donald Trump might have played a role in escalating the conflict between the U.S. and Iran.
Trump promised while on the campaign trail that if he were reelected to the presidency, his new administration would release the federal government's files from its years-long investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his many alleged crimes.
The issue helped Trump regain the presidency in 2024. However, after retaking power, Trump failed to deliver on his promise, and Congress stepped in to force the President to release the Epstein files through the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Despite being legally required by Congress to release the federal government’s files on Epstein and his crimes, Trump and his administration bungled the release, and the whole situation has mired Trump in a scandal that threatened to bring down his presidency.
Trump has been accused of creating political crisis after crisis to distract the American people from the Epstein files scandal, including by Representative Thomas Massie, a leading figure in the drive to get the Epstein files released.
“PSA: bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will,” Massie said on X on March 1st.
While accusations similar to Massie’s X attack against President Trump have been growing, some polls are now showing that many Americans believe Trump started the war against Iran as a distraction from the dangerous scandal.
On March 17th, The Telegraph reported that recent findings from the left-leaning, new media organization Zeteo found that over half of people in the United States believed that Trump started the war with Iran to distract the country from the Epstein files scandal.
Newsweek reported Zeteo surveyed 1,272 likely voters between March 6th and March 8th, and found that 52% of respondents believed Trump was “at least partly motivated to take military action against Iran in order to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.”
Another 40% of those polled reported that the Epstein files had no motivation for President Trump’s decision to use military force against Iran, whereas 8% said they were unsure.
The new media organization reported that Democrats were the most likely to think that Trump was using the Iran war as a distraction from the Epstein files scandal, with 81% of Democrats saying so. However, they were not alone.
A majority of independents (52%), and even 26% of Republicans, believe that Trump is using the war in Iran to distract from the Epstein files. Interestingly, 64% of Republicans said they did not believe the Epstein files were a factor in Trump’s decision.
However, Zeteo isn’t the only media outlet that has made this shocking discovery about why Trump went to war with Iran. Others have picked up the question, and more information on this critical viewpoint is becoming increasingly available.
On March 18th, Navigator Research released its latest polling data on what Americans think about the war with Iran. It found that 40% of Americans think Trump “wants to use the conflict to distract away from other issues like the Epstein files.”
Another 40% believe Trump started the war to get access to oil or other resources from the region, whereas 38% think President Trump started the conflict because he “actually felt Iran’s nuclear and missile programs posed an imminent threat.”
Slightly fewer respondents (31%) said Trump started the conflict to liberate the Iranian people from an oppressive regime. A near majority of respondents (46%) said that they think the war had made the world less safe, compared to 28% who said the opposite.
The polling firm also noted that 40% of the 1,000 American adults it surveyed between March 12th and March 16th said that they supported the war, while 49% said that they did not support the conflict, and 11% reported they were “not sure”.
On March 18th, the latest findings from YouGov and The Economist showed that just 39% approved of Trump’s handling of Iran, and 52% disapproved. This was far lower than his handling of the Epstein files, which had 24% approval and 59% disapproval, the worst of the eight major issues the polling surveyed.
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