The theory that Reagan's campaign delayed the hostage release illustrates how anxieties about election interference, combined with later revelations like Iran-Contra, can create powerful and lasting conspiracy narratives, regardless of official inquiries finding no evidence.

Public figures' careers follow a predictable arc of rise, excitement, and eventual controversy. Their survival depends on a simple equation: if the drama of their downfall is more interesting or valuable to the public than their actual contributions, their career is effectively over.

When scandals implicate leaders across the political spectrum, public trust in institutions collapses. This creates a vacuum that can only be filled by a new, trusted group of leaders and investigators, akin to "The Untouchables," who are perceived as incorruptible.

The documents suggest that for the elite circles surrounding Epstein, blackmail was not a rare, sinister act but a commonplace, almost casual, mechanism for gaining leverage and maintaining influence over powerful individuals.

Green's motivations extended beyond pure profit. During a credit crisis, she provided essential liquidity to railroad executives on the express condition that they derail the political career of a judge who had wronged her years prior. This shows how she leveraged financial power as a tool for personal revenge.

The landmark 1933 banking regulation wasn't just a principled reform. Parts of the bill were influenced, and even written, by a member of the Rockefeller family (owners of Chase) to strategically harm their primary competitor, J.P. Morgan.

Figures like Mao and Stalin had higher death tolls than Hitler, yet Hitler's atrocities are better known in the West. This is because he ran an effective propaganda machine and, upon defeat, Allied forces captured extensive documentation, making his crimes more visible and studied than those of others.

According to Kiriakou, a former CIA director coined the term 'conspiracy theory' as a deliberate strategy to marginalize and dismiss individuals who were accurately exposing secret and unethical agency operations like MKUltra, making them sound irrational.

Contrary to popular belief, Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory in 1932 was not primarily due to the economy. Polling from the era reveals the key issue for voters was repealing Prohibition, suggesting the public had not yet fully blamed the Hoover administration for the crash's delayed fallout.