Why this disillusioned Trump voter spends hours searching Epstein files

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx237vmr2lyo

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 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 US president in the belief that Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (Maga) movement stood for exposing corruption.