QAnon influencers baselessly suggest newly released Epstein emails show Trump was an “informant” against Epstein

Podcast host Zak Paine, who The New York Times reported “pushes the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory,” claimed the emails suggested “it’s likely” that “Donald Trump was the whistleblower that was responsible for Jeffrey Epstein getting wrapped up in the case in the first place.” Paine also claimed, without evidence, that the emails referred to how Trump supposedly “went to the police and the FBI about this entire thing,” and pointed to Johnson’s “informant” remarks in September as additional evidence. [The New York Times, 4/27/21; RedPill78, 11/12/25]

Podcaster Brian Lupo wrote that the new email release “supports that theory” that “Trump has been an informant against Epstein.” Lupo, also known online as “CannCon,” has posted about “Q,” QAnon’s central figure, as well as the QAnon slogan. [Media Matters, 6/14/23; Twitter/X, accessed 6/14/23, 2/23/23, 11/12/25]

Podcaster “Burning Bright,” who’s written that “I am and have been a Q follower,” said “I totally agree” with Lupo that “in the context of the emails themselves,” Trump looks like “an informant.” Bright also invoked Q posts (called “drops”) as part of his claim. [Twitter/X, accessed 11/13/25, 5/16/25; Badlands Media, Devolution Power Hour, 11/12/25]

Podcaster Jon Herold claimed that one of the emails “makes Trump definitely sound like an asset, an FBI informant.” Herold, who is also known online as “Patel Patriot,” has written that the Q posts “are legit.” [Media Matters, 7/22/25; Twitter/X, 11/26/24; Badlands Media, Devolution Power Hour, 11/12/25]

Jordan Sather, who The Daily Beast reported is a “prominent QAnon promoter,” claimed that the emails showed “Epstein & his friends … catching wind that Trump was likely an informant gathering dirt on them.” [The Daily Beast, 1/28/20; Telegram, 11/12/25]

Pepe Lives Matter, who a BBC reporter has reported is a “major QAnon influencer,” wrote that the “emails may indicate what weve been saying that trump was an informant against epstein.” [Twitter/X, 1/7/21; Telegram, 11/12/25]

Jacob Creech, a figure known online as “Clandestine” who has “repeatedly posted in support of QAnon,” wrote that the emails show “Trump was Epstein’s #1 enemy.” Creech wrote, “Observe the timeline: Epstein in 2017: ‘Trump is dangerous.’ 2019: Trump’s DOJ indicts/arrests Epstein and seizes his island. Epstein was right to fear Trump, because Epstein knew Trump helped the victims seek justice in FL in 2006. Trump was Epstein’s #1 enemy.” [Vice, 4/12/22; Twitter/X, 11/13/25]

“The SCIF,” a social media account which has written that “if it wasn’t for Q, most people would still have no clue how bad the child trafficking problem really is,” claimed Trump “exposed and took down Epstein.” The SCIF wrote that the released emails were “another attempt to slander Trump instead of going after the real monsters of child trafficking and abuse” by “cherry picking emails.” The account also claimed this was done “because Trump went after all of them, exposed and took down Epstein, all of their money laundering operations using YOUR taxpayer dollars, and the elites child trafficking blackmail rings.” [Twitter/X, 10/25/24, 11/12/25]