Releasing the Epstein files may have been a huge mistake. Instead of exposing the truth, this massive flood of information, riddled with unsubstantiated nonsense, has muddied the waters beyond belief. Now I understand why Trump tried to stop this.

The masses have a greater lust for theatrics than facts, and while they often exhibit good instincts, their thinking is incredibly simplistic. Average people lack the intelligence and mental fortitude to parse documents of this nature, in terms of scale and content. When confronted by potential horrific scenarios, such as child rape and murder, they react like hysterical, superstitious medieval peasants; their already limited capacity for reason is reduced to nil.

The "truth" is filtered through viral social media posts written by illiterate imbeciles, leftists, schizophrenics, and grifter sensationalists, no more reliable than Snopes. People see decontextualized snippets of the most absurd accusations reported to the FBI by mentally ill lunatics — discredited within the files themselves — and assume that they must be true: "Why else would those things be in the files?"

Most people aren't going to read the DOJ press releases with disclaimers that state "The Epstein files contain fake, falsely submitted documents, videos, and photos, alongside completely unfounded and false claims with zero credibility"; they're going to read tweets by Red Pill Patriot Truth Factory [location, Pakistan] that claim:

"Trump has dead sex slaves buried under his golf course!"

"Bush Sr. ate feces from dismembered babies' intestines!"

"Epstein cut off a male sex slave's feet with a scimitar during a ritualistic sacrifice, then reattached them without leaving a scar (and the slave lived to tell the tale)!"

Are we closer to the truth now than before this release? I'm not so sure. I fear these ludicrous, baseless claims will become entrenched in popular consciousness, rather than the empirically proven facts.