Here is Trump making you strongly suspect that Musk spoke the truth (whether knowingly, from hearsay or accidentally out of spite) that Trump's name is in the Epstein/Maxwell client book(s) and/or on the flight logs of people who visited the Lolita Island: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1942624463629213895 - I doubt there's any other singular minute in his political career that could potentially do him more lasting damage than this.

Why both parties are burying the truth (assuming the truth to be what most on the American right have been sure it is) is the fear of all anarchy breaking loose, were Americans to find out that at least one President from both parties (Clinton, Trump?), at least one leading American billionaire and philanthropist (Gates), one of America's most decorated legal experts (Dershowitz) were to be found in those client books. And dozens more of close to similar stature. Even if some of them were innocent, flew to the Island to discuss research funding or just lie in the sun, an official detailed publication of the list of names linked to the Island (not just to flying on the Lolita Express, which could be from New York to Los Angeles) would erode faith/trust in the whole American societal fabric, it could easily become an irrepressible force with unstoppable momentum tearing apart everything in its sight, like Ireland turned practically overnight from a Catholic country to probably the most anti-Christian nation in Europe following the Church's inundation in the pedophile(pederast) scandal, made worse by amorally self-serving attempts to hide and bury it for decades. And the blow to America's global standing and reputation would be immense, the stench could follow America/ns for generations.

The hypothesis is: It is following arguments like these that 'honest men' like Dan Bongino tell you there is no there there. You stare in that Abyss and start having nightmares how everything will be engulfed by what follows if you remove the curtain.