I don’t know why this stuff is coming out now.
However, there have long been whispered rumors that pedophilia is rampant among the elite. From time to time people have come forward with accusations that they had been kept to be sexually used by all sorts of powerful people including Hillary Clinton, Bush 41, and other very prominent politicians.
The net is full of those stories. Are they true? Some seem crazy outlandish, but I don’t know. Is it possible some young people have been stolen and kept for months or even years and made to have sex with the rich and powerful? What percentage of Washington is either gay or a pedophile? Is this why the conservatives get to Washington and become feckless? Is that why people like Justice Roberts seem to so easily cave on their principals.
I have a family friend who worked on the Hill for a senator in the 80’s and 90’s who has told stories along these lines. She said people are too scared to come forward and accuse the most powerful people in America because no one would believe them. Plus those who do come forward with accusations are attacked, investigated, painted as loons, or otherwise marginalized.
Bottom line: I don’t know what to believe.
If psychopathology is a prerequisite for a politician's success, and I believe it is, I suggest that you believe the worst.