Rep. Thomas Massie is gaining more Republican friends and allies as he pushes for releasing the Epstein files after having a falling with Donald Trump.

Epstein was a convicted sex offender and accused pedophilic sex trafficker whose efforts at pretending to be intellectual were embarrassing. John G. Trump, however, was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did genuinely good work fighting Nazis.

The 2019 suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein launched numerous conspiracy theories, chief among them that the financier had actually been murdered to cover up his connections to powerful people in the highest echelons of American society — and that the United States government has been hiding information about what truly happened.