Why this disillusioned Trump voter spends hours searching Epstein files

After Cayden McBride finishes class in Rome, Georgia, the 19-year-old goes home, opens his laptop, and starts searching. For the past few months, he has been spending hours at a time combing through the Jeffrey Epstein files on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website, and following others online who are doing the same.Flight logs. Transcripts. Images. Videos. The material released by the DOJ has given new insight into the crimes of Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, and into his high-profile connections.McBride believes the Epstein files still matter, even if the headlines have moved on to the Iran war recently."As a Christian, I don't believe anybody should endure what these women have been through," he says. "There is so much bad stuff in these files."McBride was a self-described "Trump guy" and "very anti-establishment". He said he would always defend the president in the belief that Trump's "Make America Great Again" (Maga) movement stood for exposing corruption. But the DOJ's delay in releasing all the files, and the perceived lack of accountability afterwards, has left him and many others disheartened with the movement, the president and especially with Pam Bondi, Trump's former attorney general.Bondi was removed from her post just last week, to be replaced, in the interim, by her deputy Todd Blanche. Trump has lauded Bondi for doing a "tremendous job", and Blanche denied reports that his predecessor's handling of the Epstein files had been a factor in her departure.But McBride hailed the changing of the guard, expressing hope that there could now be renewed focus on the Epstein issue.