America is eradicating an enemy that has dominated headlines in the Middle East for nearly fifty years. Naturally, some in the press are targeting President Donald Trump with ridiculous new allegations buried in the depths of the Epstein files.
Why? Because journalists still believe they can drag Trump through the mud, even in the middle of a war, and win elections for the D-team.
If this sounds familiar, it certainly should. This has been the media strategy since Trump first decided to campaign as a Republican and ruin the left’s plans for global domination. The press has run with every false claim it can find: accusations of Russian collusion, “mostly peaceful” riots, and claims that the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% fake.
Remember this Politico headline from October 19, 2020, just in time to influence the presidential election? “Hunter Biden’s story is Russian disinformation, dozens of former intelligence officials say.”
Now we know the laptop was real and full of scandalous information about President Biden and his family. That’s why the truth was buried under a pile of lies from Trump haters and the journalists who love them. They protected their man – ‘the Big Guy’ – from laptop fame.
So much so that he ultimately pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, before leaving office. The 51 intelligence officials all lost their security clearances, but they did the damage they wanted. And the press – along with social media companies – hid the truth.
Even NPR’s notoriously left-wing CEO, Katherine Maher, admitted during congressional testimony that the outlet made a mistake in 2020.
“I do want to say that NPR recognizes that we made a mistake by not covering the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner,” she said.
Of course, Biden still got the White House, NPR was handily funded, and the Republican Party was defeated. NPR won the trifecta.
That’s the context for yet another Trump scandal claim. Everywhere the media went this week, the goal was to put two names together in the headlines: Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. It doesn’t matter if it’s an accusation – an old and unproven one at that. Why bother holding back? All that matters is trying to hurt Trump.
And the press was there for every bit of it. There are the bitter people at NPR, now much poorer thanks to Trump, who offer this headline: “The Justice Department releases some missing Epstein files related to Trump.” Or Radar Online with the tabloid-style headline: “’Missing’ Epstein Files Containing Explosive Trump Attack Claim Released by Pam Bondi Hours After She Was Subpoenaed by Congress.”
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Some of them just can’t hide who they are. The left-wing Daily Beast published several pieces on the story, including this classic: “Creepy Nicknames Trump Allegedly Used on Epstein Revealed by Prosecutor.” It contained a subheading worthy of a gender studies major: “EWWWW.”
The author of that story, Daily Beast reporter Catherine Bouris, studied American studies, according to her website, and it shows. Consider this quote: “I understand feeling powerless when faced with the looming specter of patriarchy.”
Or her pro-trans complaint in another of her articles: “Babes In TERFland.” In any case, Bouris does not pretend to be neutral. From that piece: “I don’t pretend to be an impartial witness, just as I am not impartial when it comes to other forms of bigotry. I don’t think journalism (or whatever it is I do here) has to be neutral in the face of oppression and injustice to be effective.”
That’s an important perspective as journalists grab their pitchforks and torches for the billionth time, convinced that this time they’ll take down Orange Man Bad.
An interesting point is that some in the press are now terrified of Trump – or, more likely, of his lawyers. Trump has won two huge litigation victories against both ABC and CBS since returning to the Oval Office. The two networks agreed to pay many millions in legal settlements. As the media reports on Trump, they have become more cautious. Several chose to use the word “unconfirmed” in their articles, which no doubt made their lawyers and accountants happy. The Los Angeles Times, CBS News and The Associated Press all fell into that category.
Other news organizations went with some form of “impeachment,” another safe word favored by lawyers. These included our friends at CNN, The Guardian and The Hill. MS NOW really covered its bases with “unsubstantiated Trump accusations.” That’s a double word score in Scrabble – The Legal Edition.
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That kind of institutional CYA (cover your accusations) shows that this latest batch of stories aren’t worth the paper they’re mostly not even printed on.
In the heyday of the press actively censoring the Biden laptop story, The Washington Post published an op-ed arguing that we couldn’t trust claims anyway. It was what that same outlet in the Watergate years would have called a non-denial denial. Here’s the headline: “Insisting that the Hunter Biden laptop is fake is a trap. So is insisting that it’s real.” Schrödinger’s propaganda, for the nerds among us.
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It was the subtitle from that op-ed that really applies almost ten years later: “The lesson of 2016 is to be even more careful with possible disinformation in 2020.” That’s what we’re dealing with here, in the middle of a war where our enemies have turned the Internet into a battlefield, trying to endanger our troops and bombard us with lies.
Where thousands of American lives are at stake every second, where the men and women who protect us risk everything to do so. Because President Donald Trump and America are at war with Iran. And the press is at war with Trump.
The late, great President Ronald Reagan always advised us to “trust, but verify.” We should update that warning for the traditional media: “Distrust – they deserve it.”
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