The extremely public and increasingly unhinged breakup of Elon Musk and president Donald Trump has caused chaos in DC , forced Silicon Valley executives to pick a side, and wiped more than $150 billion off Tesla’s market cap .

But in the conspiracy theory-addicted corners of the internet, the feud between Musk and Trump is nothing more than a fake, planned distraction. After Musk posted on X about Trump’s alleged relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire charged with sex trafficking of minors—“@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote.“That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”— conspiracy theorists were convinced this was all a plan to trick Democrats into calling for the Epstein files to be published.

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