Marginalizes Phelan through association with discredited figures
[appeal_to_emotion] The inclusion of Phelan’s name on the Epstein flight manifest, while factually reported, serves no clear operational or investigative relevance and functions to socially exclude him through guilt by association.
“CNN previously reported that Phelan's name appeared on a flight manifest showing that he flew in 2006 on the plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
