Analyst says interest in Epstein files plummeted after war on Iran launched

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/analyst-says-interest-in-epstein-files-plummeted-after-war-on-iran-launched

Republican US Congressman Thomas Massie has said the war ‘won’t make the Epstein files go away’.

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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 232 pts · 190d (35 replies)

In case you had any doubt what this whole Iran affair is really about...

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 66 pts · 190d (27 replies)

When the United States fakes an attack on US soil by Iran, Trump will be able to declare martial law without pushback. Once he has that kind of control he will destroy the Epstein files permanently. He will also never give up martial law and will become a dictator that will pass on to other dictators for the next hundred years. This is the future of the United States of America unless the man is taken care of.

SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 190d (3 replies)

The worst of it is already gone if I had to guess. When the FBI got hacked it lost 100TB of data relating to the investigation. 100TB ain't gonna be emails, that's media.

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 26 pts · 190d

People don’t lose data from being hacked. The FBI has backups of backups. Even I can’t “lose a file” if I tried because everything I do has very basic consumer level backups. If they “lost” something, it was destroyed internally… and even still there’s probably a copy.

zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 188d

With that many terrabytes there has to be video.

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 187d

Ahhh, yep. Win some, lose some. That’s just another day at the office.

takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 190d (2 replies)

That's why it is important to make everyone you know expect it. If enough people don't get fooled, then this won't work.

I'm actually worried about 4th of July. Fascists love dates and numbers and it is 250 anniversary of US.

Snowclone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d

He might rename it "Fourth of Trumply"

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 190d

I dunno. Trump doesn’t give a shit about historic dates. My bet is October. If you’re not out of the country by then, you’re never getting out.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d (6 replies)

Ten bucks says he declares Marshal Law instead.

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 7 pts · 190d (2 replies)

I’m not taking that bet. I don’t like to lose money hahahah.

My guess is he does it in October before the midterms so he can hassle voters or cancel elections.

With the USPS timestamps, SAVE act, etc there’s just no way the election is going to be fair.

The USA is dead. The fall of the USSR is going to look like utopia.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d (1 reply)

The fall of the USSR

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 190d

Party for one!

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d

Oh geez, yes I lost the tread. As you were.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Martial law

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d

That is the joke.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d (1 reply)

If that happens palantir will have ice come and collect dissidents and we will be enslaved and killed in core civic concentration camps

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 188d

Gonna happen like that if we don’t.

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 187d

False flag shit. Like the angry young fellas from Bucks county? That wasn’t Isis. That was some angry young dudes that identified with Isis. Isis would have sent (Cough, ahem) more qualified individuals to do this sort of bidding. I do hope that the one right wing C word, unfluencer that shows up repeatedly to things like this, falls and hits his head rather quickly. I am tiring of his ugliness. I am a straight Cis male so you know if a MF’er is so ugly and it triggers me this much, there is one takeaway. That Sumbitch reeeeaaaalllllyyyy ugly. I hope the Isis wannabes can fuck him up severely one day. Then, they’ll probably just “grow out of that type of behavior”. They are just young and somewhat misguided.

IcePee@lemmy.beru.co · 1 pts · 190d (8 replies)

Not saying he wouldn't, but isn't Marshal Law part of the insurrection act? In any case, a foreign attack on a nation shouldn't be justification enough for an action of internal oppression. Again, I'm talking about a rational administration, here, not an autocratic dictatorship.

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 190d (7 replies)

The United States government knew about Pearl Harbor, and they let it happen to get Into World War II. This led to Japanese internment camps inside the United States, which I would argue Is internal oppression. There is good evidence, that you can go find yourself, that The United States let 9/11 happen. This led to the patriot act, and an entire war.

Martial law is not part of the insurrection act. That is a different thing, with similar talking points.

Declaring martial law or using anything in the insurrection act to take over the local governments would not be marketed as oppression. And if no one says oppression, then it can’t be oppression (According to the government).

I think that if Donald Trump is willing to bypass Congress to go to war, he’s willing to break any rule in the book. The rules no longer apply and the only reason he hasn’t tried to take over local governments is because no one is standing up to him yet. He gets away with everything. He may be a few cards short of a full deck, but he’s not dumb. He knows if you don’t have a problem, don’t make one. The United States citizens are not a problem for him.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 190d (6 replies)

Had me until

but he’s not dumb.

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 190d (5 replies)

If he’s dumb, then he’s just really really Lucky.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d (4 replies)

It’s called being born into wealth.

You just get good at using your wealth to avoid accountability. It doesn’t take intelligence to not pay contractors cause you keep getting away with it your whole life.

There is strong evidence that he basically got saved by Russian money.

So yes, being so lucky to be born into wealth and also sociopathic enough to do whatever it takes like betraying your own country.

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 190d

What I find extremely obscene is that he doesn’t have talent, skill, knowledge, training, or experience.

It’s just money. Dirty old money.

All you need to break EVERY rule in the book is...MONEY.

outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 190d

Being intelligent and being not dumb are not the same thing.

He knows he doesn’t need to roll tanks down Main Street USA, because people in the USA refuse to stand up to the government in any meaningful way.

zbyte64@awful.systems · 0 pts · 188d

Nah, he'll just run as VP and have Baron Trump run for president and have the special forces do any rigging needed. Fascism in America is disappointing on so many levels.

takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 190d

I don't think this is even true. It is more that media (owned by the same elites) can temporarily escape to Iran so they report it.

Meanwhile the records about victim's interview that they were hiding were released and they look quite bad.

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Yes. Operation Epstein Fury.

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 190d

Also Operation Energy Fluffer, the saviour of Russia's war budget.

IcePee@lemmy.beru.co · 7 pts · 190d

It could just be an added benefit...

crusa187@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 190d

It’s about Israel, one way or another.

aaa999@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d

nooooo thats anti semitism nooooooo im the adl take me seriously nooooooo

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 190d

It's about Netty-bo yanking on Trump's leash.

this isn't our war. it's Netanyahu's. (and maybe the Saudis, too.)

4am@lemmy.zip · 110 pts · 190d (13 replies)

My interest hasn’t plummeted, I just haven’t been reading as many news articles about it because there hasn’t been as many.

Please tell me this report isn’t that fucking stupid

naught101@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 190d

Interest from mainstream journalists, obviously, duh

agingelderly@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 190d (9 replies)
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d (8 replies)

lol reddit already censored that link

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 190d (5 replies)

It was posted to /r/pics - which has rules against posting political content

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 190d (4 replies)

what kind of twisted fuckwit thinks child rape is a political position?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 190d (3 replies)

Has Trump in the title. It was auto modded

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d (2 replies)

so?

it's not political content when the person actually was friends with a child rapist.

there's nothing political about the fact that he hung around with pedos and traffickers. in fact I'd assert it's political censorship of the worst kind to hide stories talking about this connection.

It's children being raped, not the heritage foundation view on taxation. That's politics.

Also, simping for reddit much?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 190d

I'm just telling you why it was removed. No mod besides a filter bot was involved

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Why did they censor it?

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 189d

to me it looks like protecting the pedos, not really off brand for the jail-bait side of reddit.

NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 190d

In shocking news: people read fewer articles about a subject when the articles aren’t available!

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 189d

It is, in fact, exactly that!

brownsugga@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 190d (10 replies)

No the fuck it has not

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 190d (1 reply)

The Iran War, [what would famously be known as the Epstein War,] began at the most convenient time possible for the PedophileOTUS. The name fits, arguably better than Microslop.

brownsugga@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d

it "began" lol they fuckin started it right when we were hearing all about the darkest shit

ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 190d (1 reply)

The coverage has dropped off from anyone but Indy sources.

FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 190d

Among the first things I saw on local news this morning was the story about the released files. It sat right above the post about the US preparing for a "surge" in Iran and I can't help but think that some editor knew what they were doing.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 190d (5 replies)

Yes the fuck it has, and really it was the inevitable result. This is not just a spontaneous development, this is the result of decades of moral and financial corruption. We would like to absolve ourselves of complicity but the reality is that each American, in their own small way, has contributed to the systemic corruption we all suffer from. It’s a difficult thing. Many of us, most of us suffer disproportionately to the aristocracy, yet we carry on, and we let them continue with their schemes. We could easily topple them, wrestle the levers of power from their wretched, traitorous hands, but we don’t.

ILoveUnions@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d

There are people who have been fighting against all this for decades. Don't lump them together.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

It's honestly kinda gross to see people blink past the bombing of schools, hospitals, and water treatment plants - the outright massacre of thousands of people - as though it's a distraction from your domestic pedo politics.

Americans can't even prosecute Woody Allen for this shit. It's an absolute joke to think "Release The Epstein Files" is going to come to anything. Much less that it would preclude anyone from talking about the carpet bombing of Tehran.

brownsugga@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 188d

Prosecute Woody Allen? He's gross by he hasn't broken any laws. You're deluded if you think everyone is "blinking past" the atrocities being committed in Gaza and Iran

brownsugga@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 188d (1 reply)

It's that kind of defeatist attitude that's part of the problem

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 188d

It’s just the normal course of empire. Rise and fall, Solve et coagula. Parasites and infections take over their host if not treated. Superficially changing political parties every few years does nothing, because it’s treating the symptoms and not the disease.

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 60 pts · 190d

mission accomplished

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 189d (1 reply)

Not amongst quality people it didn't.

Trump raped kids.

foggy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 189d

There are almost definitely greater than 0 human skeletons buried at his golf courses.

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 190d

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 190d (1 reply)

That is what main stream media (owned by the billionaires licking between Shitler's toes) WANTS you to think. They WANT you to stop talking about it.

Don't fall for their bullshit.

KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT AND DON'T LET UP!

Where are the TRUMPSTEIN FILES! Release the TRUMPSTEIN FILES! Prove you didn't rape children, didn't EAT CHILDREN and have them killed! If you didn't do it, you should be happy to show that you didn't fucking do it.

Gathorall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d

You know, if they're not going to impeach and prosecute, which they are not, the Epstein files are irrelevant. The American populace has the exact same toolset to topple Trump as they would have if he was revealed a cannibal pedophile. He's just apparently a good enough guy that Americans aren't willing to use them.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 31 pts · 190d

I mean nope. just because a mountain range overshadows a single mountain in it does not mean it disapears.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 189d

Binturong@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 190d

Forgive me for not believing one unaccountable analyst. I still see and hear people talking about the files all around me constantly.

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 190d

No it didn't. The media has an excuse to ignore it more.

Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 189d
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rogsson@piefed.social · 16 pts · 189d

So where are those files?

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 189d

That Anal list is wrong

Etterra@discuss.online · 13 pts · 189d (2 replies)

Operation Epic Fury Epstein Files will not distract us from the fact that the Orange Jackass is covering up the Epstein Files.

moakley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

God dammit. That has to be on purpose. It's so fucking stupid.

Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 189d

Maybe somebody thought they were being clever, but I think they're just that stupid.

bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 190d

I will always be interested in and never forget what started the Epstein War in Iran.

Snapz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 188d

Well if, "analyst says" I guess we just pack it up, boys...

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 190d

If this is true his distraction really worked. But thanks to Kimmel and Colbert, they keep on reminding the public that watch them. Every night. 😁

defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Operation Epstein Fury

b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 189d

Operations Epstein Fury, where the Epstein Axis assassinates leaders during peace talks, they double tap a school full of girls, and attack unarmed ships and leave the sailors to drown. And the genocidal pedo freaks are still losing.

kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 190d (1 reply)

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 190d

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 10 pts · 190d (5 replies)

There are a lot of people committed to making sure it won't go away. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1fXqBioUq-OtShq6IRzeU_k2ZDjir-agb

moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 190d (4 replies)

What are you linking to here? Curious, but not enough to click a tracking packed google link

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 2 pts · 190d (3 replies)

I'm linking to a file called epstein_victim_reports.pdf. Produced by someone I follow on Pixelfed. They and others, posting mostly on reddit, have been using search tools to go thru what has been released, and documenting their findings.

You make a good point. How do I link a .pdf? Seems I can't just drop it on the comment above. I should be able to UL it to my server, and give a link to that, I suppose. I've ul'd the file, but the share link is not anonymous, and I don't wish to draw undue attention to the server, as it is run by an associate. How to do I share that file anonymously? I'm happy to do this better, but don't know how.

editted.

moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 190d (1 reply)

catbox.moe is a popular host around here, mega.io has been my go to for a while. https://epsteinexposed.com/ isn't hosting, but a resource you might appreciate. Thanks for sharing whatever you can however you can, don't mean to be critical

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 190d

I was just sharing something that another fediverse user has shared from their own research. And hey, I can take criticism; it was quite reasonable to be suspect of a google link. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Sometimes I get unreasonably over enthusiastic. :-D

Gork@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 190d

https://litterbox.catbox.moe/

Not sure how long it'll stay there though.

fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 189d

RELEASE THE PEDO-TRUMP FILES!

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 188d (3 replies)

Here is what you get for lying like this.

jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 188d (2 replies)
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6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 188d (1 reply)

I should rebrand/phrase. I meant the ones trying on a new reason every five minutes for why we’re at war. They are lying to us on the daily to take the focus from the Epstein files. Deceiving & fibbing to divert interest in the files. That’s a paddlin.

jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 188d
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Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc · 9 pts · 189d

Only cattle will forget.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 190d (2 replies)
leagman1@feddit.org · 3 pts · 190d

Thank you. I'm saving your comment for reference.

turdburglar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 190d

how the fuck did this just go away?

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 188d (1 reply)

It isn’t about the files FFS. Nobody is prosecuting him. Nobody. Just another distraction focusing everyone’s attention away from trump doing his best to seize permanent power.

Oh, an they might lift oil sanctions on Russia. Way to go, rewarding the country helping Iran send bombs to US bases.

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 188d

Lifting sanctions on Russian oil is about offsetting the impacts of the strait of Hormuz closing. As far as anyone helping Iran bomb US bases: fucking good!

tonytins@pawb.social · 8 pts · 190d

Sounds like a mighty big cover up, 10-4.

Randelung@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 189d

Whose interest?

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d

We need to overload them!

— Steve Bannon

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d (2 replies)

I still see posts all over the internet every day about the files. I think it's also that there hasn't been any new files or revelations since the Iran war started except for that dump yesterday. It's not that there's less interest, it's that those that are intensely interested are either still going through them or waiting for the next big thing like when (former) prince Andrew was arrested. I'm sure as soon as the next big thing comes up it'll jump right back up. And I'm sure in that same week the war will escalate. It's just a big tug o' war on our attention spans.

drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d

Well, yeah, Iran is a new thing happening. The epstein files have been a thing for years. Its not people callously forgetting about them, they got released and nothing came of it and now we are at war with Iran. Trump might as well just come out with it his fan base will still support him.

Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d

I vote we change the name to the Sasha Riley files

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 189d

Trump and his minions knew that even before the "analysts".

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 190d

Why, it's almost like it was intentionally timed to do just that!

Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 188d

Interest went down sure, but it's not going away. Trump will dream the files are done but no fucking way they are

RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 188d (1 reply)

This is why they are declaring Mission Accomplished

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 188d

We should troll them back and ask if the Epstein Files were found in Tehran.

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d

Doesn't change the fact that Donald John Trump is a pedophile and rapist.

trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 190d

Nice try, Diddy

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 190d

Mission accomplished!

ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 190d (1 reply)

I think the point is to not make us care about anything at all, including the Iran war. The sad part is that they are successful for the most part with everyday people.

j2k4@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 189d

Source?

exaybachae@startrek.website · 1 pts · 190d (1 reply)

I was just reading through a couple thousands of the financial statements and reports and scans from 10. Kinda interesting stuff seeing how millionaires manage their finances, private jets, and properties.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 188d

Link? You got my attention.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 190d

Americans never did have much of an attention span