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This @MattGertz piece really captures how the basic dilemma is seeping down into Fox News coverage. As Matt asks, why won't Fox personalities simply *agree with Dems* who are calling for the Epstein files' release? The question answers itself: mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse…
Victims testified under oath that Maxwell sexually abused them with Epstein. Victims testified under oath that she recruited them and schooled them on how to give sexualized massages to Epstein. Victims testified that she took their passports so that they became prisoners on the…
Newsmax has begun referring to Ghislaine Maxwell as “a victim.” You heard that correctly.
Flagrant podcast harshly criticizes the Trump administration's handling of Epstein files
The real victims of child sex trafficking are the child sex traffickers mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/new…
… no Alex Acosta? Really? They don’t want to hear from the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea deal, became Trump’s Labor Secretary, resigned when Epstein got back in the news, and is now on Newsmax’s board of directors? Fascinating.
NEWS: The Oversight Committee will subpoena the DOJ to release the Epstein files after today's subcmte vote. But subpoenas will also go to: Bill and Hillary Clinton, former AGs Alberto Gonzales, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions as well…
Bannon rails at the WSJ story on Epstein and Trump: "The Wall Street Journal is the enemy"
The right-wing media efforts to implicate Obama come as Trump tries to deflect from the Epstein files mediamatters.org/donald-trump/r…
An unhinged MAGA media is infested with calls for the arrest of Barack Obama — and one prominent right-wing commentator is even floating legal consequences for journalists who debunk their twisted rationale mediamatters.org/mollie-hemingw…
Where we're at: Right-wing infleuncer is calling the daughter of Cuban exiles who was born in Miami "not American" and that she should "go back to Cuba" ... all for the crime of dissenting on who should be the priority for deportation.
Yes, the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea deal and later became Trump's labor secretary recently joined the board of the pro-Trump outlet Newsmax. mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsma…
Gross stuff here -- Newsmax host Greg Kelly is attacking @jkbjournalist as a "fake news reporter" who "wanted to take down Trump" in defense of Alex Acosta, who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea agreement (as she detailed) and is now a Newsmax board member.
Gross stuff here -- Newsmax host Greg Kelly is attacking @jkbjournalist as a "fake news reporter" who "wanted to take down Trump" in defense of Alex Acosta, who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea agreement (as she detailed) and is now a Newsmax board member.
Trump’s latest attempt to defuse the Epstein revolt: Point supporters at common enemies mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…
QAnon world roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
This is ludicrously dumb, not least because the reporter left the trade publication *the year before* before its founder's husband founded FusionGPS, but a big chuck of the MAGAverse wants to help Trump by going knives-out for the Journal so it's spreading.
Impressively convoluted conspiracy theory here: one of the Journal reporters on the Trump-Epstein story apparently worked 15 years ago for a trade publication owned by the wife of the guy who founded FusionGPS, the intelligence firm that produced the Steele Dossier. Sure why not
Hosts of some streaming shows — some of which previously hosted the president or vice president — have attacked the Trump DOJ’s Epstein findings as “bullshit” and warned he is “potentially destroying his entire base” mediamatters.org/donald-trump/r…
On the right's desperate deflections in response to Democratic calls to release Epstein docs: mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse…
The left and right have modeled different versions of concern for Epstein’s “victims or the corruption or the cover-up.” One emphasizes justice, the other is bullshit all the way down.