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QAnon Faithful See Validation in the Epstein Files

NYT > Business > Media · Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson · last updated

The nearly decade-old conspiracy theory does not align neatly with the facts emerging from the documents. That does not seem to matter.

The theory at the heart of the QAnon conspiracy theory was simple, even if the details were not: A global cabal of elites was running a child sex-trafficking ring.

The latest release of files about Jeffrey Epstein has the QAnon faithful crowing that they were right. The documents revealed that a global group of prominent business and political figures had close personal relationships with a convicted sex offender, and raised questions about how much those people knew about, or participated in, Mr. Epstein’s crimes.

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