House Panel May Need DOJ to Compel Epstein Interviews

Massie, Khanna bringing Epstein survivors to Capitol (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  Leave no tear unjerked.

Comer: Bill Clinton ‘prime suspect’ in Epstein investigation (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A visual timeline (CNN)

Newsbusters.

Talking heads on CNN and MSNBC are convinced President Trump has some shadowy ulterior motive for assuming federal control of policing in Washington, D.C. In addition to citing cooked crime statistics to slam President Trump’s federalization of policing in D.C., panelists on the liberal cable networks have begun offering up wild theories for what Trump’s “real” goal was.

One popular theory pushed by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, among others, was that the President hoped to “distract” Americans and the media from Jeffrey Epstein.

EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! The one-note orchestra.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Wokerati.

Lauren Southern is not a ‘TradWife’, any more than Ashley St. Clair. She is a promiscuous grifter who has been riding the ‘TradWife’ meme for profit ever since she hit puberty. She is a ‘right-wing influencer’ only in the eyes of people like Michelle Goldberg, who wouldn’t know ‘right-wing’ if it bit her on the foot. Which I hope it does.

Brett Cooper is legitimately a TradWife. Look her up on YouTube.

Amy Dangerfield will legitimately be a TradWife, once she settles down, which I hope she does soon. Look her up on YouTube as well.

San Francisco Chronicle, a Voice of the Crust.

Find a ‘city’ that isn’t ‘black led’. Go on; I’ll wait.

The distinction to be made here is that Trump is ‘targeting’ Democrat-‘led’ cities, because Democrat politicians (an amazing number of which just happen to be black-‘led’) aren’t doing their jobs.

The first job of elected officials is to ensure that their constituents are safe. The first job of ‘black-led cities’ appears to be ignoring crime and wasting taxpayer money (when it isn’t just stolen).

I read somewhere recently (can’t remember where) that there are no Blue States, merely Blue Cities. That sounds about right.

Vance Tries to Convince Americans That Trump Wants ‘Full Transparency’ in Epstein Case (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Rep. Comer: Clintons Must Testify on Epstein Saga After Subpoena

GOP Lawmakers Left Washington to Escape the Epstein Issue. It Followed Them Home. (Riley Rogerson/NOTUS)

Newsbusters.

Audie Cornish must have the keenest hearing in the liberal media.

Sure, many liberals claim to hear supposedly racist Republican dog whistles. But Cornish can detect a dog whistle before it’s even pronounced! Call it a double-secret dog whistle on probation!

Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Half of GOP Would Still Vote for Trump If Implicated in Epstein Crimes (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s Vile Take on Teenager’s Rape Goes Viral as Epstein Woes Deepen (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Who Is the Heir to the MAGA Movement? Trump Keeps His Options Open (Wall Street Journal)

Trump suggests “MAGA” stock listing for mortgage giants Fannie, Freddie (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

The New York Times, paper of record of the Wokerati.

Guess they’ll have to raise their wages to attract people other than illegal aliens. Like, say, Americans.

You know, what they ought to have been doing from the beginning, rather than ‘outsourcing in place’.

“It’s a wipeout,” said Gary Rohwer, the owner. “We’re building back up from ground zero.”

These are the very people that the Woke usually delight in trash-talking for ‘exploiting the poor workers.’ But because the Woke are Democrats, and Democrats need illegals to keep their numbers up, nary a word will be said in the Narrative Media.

The Times (UK).

Small boats and fateful decisions on asylum have shifted polite opinion firmly to the right. It risks moving further if the tap isn’t turned off.

Note how ‘shifting right’ is automatically characterized as being a ‘risk’. (Oh, no, we don’t want to shift right!)

On Tuesday morning, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, went on the BBC’s Today programme to be interrogated about the government’s new “one in, one out” plan to deport illegal migrants back to France. It is the “right principle”, she said, that people who arrive on small boats should be returned.

Amol Rajan, the host, pressed Cooper. “The trouble is, a year on from being in power, the numbers are going up, not down,” he said. “Don’t you think, if you said … ‘we hope to return 5,000 a year through this scheme’ it would help win the public over?”

You could hardly hope for a better encapsulation of just how far the liberal consensus on migration has shifted in this country. Neither the Labour home secretary nor the Today show host interrogated the assumption that illegal migrants should be deported; it was merely a question of how many and how fast.

Reality is what hangs around even if you don’t believe in it.

Media Freakout Over ‘Horror’ of Dictator Trump and His MAGA Supporters

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

The watchdog group Democracy Defenders Fund, led by a former Obama administration ethics official, has formally requested a federal investigation into the Pentagon’s acceptance of a Qatari luxury jet on behalf of President Trump.

According to a memo obtained by CBS News, the group asked the Department of Defense’s inspector general and the Government Accountability Office to probe whether the Pentagon broke laws and engaged in impropriety by accepting the gift on Mr. Trump’s behalf from the Qatari royal family. The memo was sent to the inspector general and GAO on Friday.

The Democracy Defenders Fund is a nonpartisan advocacy group founded by Obama ethics czar Norm Eisen. Its memo said the agencies should investigate whether the Defense Department had improperly invoked its authorities to accept the jet aircraft and to reportedly transfer $934 million in funding from a nuclear missile program to help retrofit the aircraft.

As is obvious, this group is not a ‘watchdog group’ but rather a bunch of Democrat activists looking for some way to cause trouble for Trump. CBS calling it a ‘watchdog group’ is a transparent attempt to paint it with a level of credibility to which it is obviously not entitled. This is a constant theme with the Narrative Media: Any clump of Democrat activists is a ‘watchdog group’; any Republican group, of whatever nature, is a bunch of ‘conspiracy theorists’. (Instead of calling them ‘conspiracy theories’ we ought to call them ‘spoiler alerts’.)

White House Did Have Secret Talks on Epstein Crisis (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)

Trump administration faces first lawsuit to force release of Epstein files (April Rubin/Axios)

Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Epstein files are failing (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

MAGA world swallows a difficult truth: Arresting Trump’s opponents is easier said than done (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump, Vance: Epstein Meeting Reports ‘Hoax,’ ‘Fake News’

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: Committee Is Serious About Epstein Case

VP Vance meeting to discuss Epstein fallout canceled, source says (Nandita Bose/Reuters)

Congress doesn’t want to talk to Alex Acosta, Epstein’s ‘sweetheart deal’ maker (NBC News)

Drinks, Apps, and an Epstein Coverup to Go (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Why don’t Republicans want to talk to the prosecutor who made Epstein’s ‘sweetheart deal’? (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

The House Moves on Epstein

Top Trump officials discussed Epstein at White House meeting Wednesday night (Kristen Holmes/CNN)

JD Vance Denies Meeting To Discuss Epstein Files

MAGA Antitrust Agenda Under Siege by Lobbyists Close to Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Trump pushed major change to Medicare after $5 million donation to MAGA, Inc: report (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)

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Well, this is going to become a little awkward…

While some on The Fed believe that tariffs will unleash the worst parts of stagflationary hell on the average American (and therefore they should not cut rates), it appears the ‘Americans’ themselves are far less concerned.

This morning we heard Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic reiterate that there are reasons to be skeptical that the inflationary effects from tariffs will be temporary.

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press’s Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb published an article that highlighted the survivors of Israel’s explosive pager attack on the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah. Though the highly advanced strike was designed to reduce unintentional casualties to a minimum, there were a few civilian injuries and casualties. While it is important to show sympathy for the unintended victims of the attack, the AP seemed to forget there was a difference between that and sympathizing with a terrorist group.

 

MAGA expectations soar after DOJ orders Russia grand jury probe (Axios)

Trump Suggests Vance is MAGA Movement’s Heir Apparent (Enjoli Liston/New York Times)

MAGA Hopes Soar After Russia Grand Jury Probe Ordered

Prosecutor who negotiated Epstein’s sweetheart deal left off subpoena list (Axios)

How Trump blunted the far-right furor over Jeffrey Epstein (Washington Post)

Ghislaine Maxwell told Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning with Epstein, report says (Kelly Rissman/The Independent)

Vance expected to host Epstein strategy dinner with Bondi, Blanche, Patel (Katherine Faulders/ABC News)

Vance, Bondi, Patel to huddle at VP residence for Epstein strategy meeting (Fox News)

Trumpworld Knows Epstein Is a Problem. But They Can’t Solve It (Jake Lahut/Wired)

Alan Dershowitz: ‘No Credible Evidence’ From Epstein Accusers

The Foundry.

There’s something funny in scandal politics when people accuse each other of pushing a “distraction.” So if President Donald Trump tries to change the subject to Russia collusion-hoaxing, it’s a “distraction” from the media’s energetic Jeffrey Epstein obsession.

All this really proves is that the liberal media elites get unhappy whenever anyone tries to offer a different topic than the one they demand we all be magnetically focused on. The networks don’t want any contrary new information added to their narrative on how Trump won in 2016 with Russian assistance—if you’re not going to accept their original accusations of collusion.

Their framing is presented as the only acceptable framing, the one based in “reality.” The public is always supposed to be focused on Republican scandals. They’re the only ones that matter. Democrat scandals are reflexively dismissed as “no evidence” nothing-burgers, a smelly wastebasket of “unsubstantiated” junk.

It’s transparently partisan “news judgment.”

Epstein victims blast Justice Department over lack of transparency (NBC News)

Epstein Was Still a Member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Long After He Was Indicted (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast and the Rolling Stone are going ot beat that dead horse until it’s fertilizer.

Comer subpoenas the Clintons, Trump’s DOJ in House Oversight’s Epstein probe (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published (Anna Betts/The Guardian)

Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyers Oppose Unsealing of Epstein Transcripts  I’ll just bet they do.

Never-Before-Seen Photos Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Creepy Mansion

Comer issues subpoenas for DOJ’s Epstein files, depositions with former officials (Politico)

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Jim Acosta, the former CNN hack who President Trump notoriously said “YOU are fake news” to at the White House is now LITERALLY living up to the description after he put out an ‘interview’ with an AI generated avatar of a deceased Parkland shooting victim as a way of pushing gun control.

You can’t make this stuff up.

UPDATE: Acosta Ghoulishly Chats with A.I. Zombie of Dead Parkland Student

Poll Shows Widespread Disapproval and Suspicion of Trump’s Handling of Epstein Files (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Charlamagne Tha God: Trump Should Focus on Economy, Epstein And what’s-his-name should focus on whatever it is that he does and leave politics alone.

Epstein Victims Express Disgust, Fear at Handling of Files (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

Victim in Epstein case decries ‘political warfare’ in effort to release grand jury transcripts (Casey Gannon/CNN)

The simple way Democrats should talk about Trump and Epstein (Peter Rothpletz/The Guardian)

Trump Rages About Claim He Killed Epstein: Author (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

New York Magazine Grumbles that Media Epstein Overkill is Ineffective

Prince Andrew and Donald Trump’s Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed (Tom Sykes/The Daily Beast)  Apparently the Duke of York, like Trump, is one of the New Hitlers that Narrative journalist devote their time to tracking down.

Trump Lashes Out at Charlamagne Tha God Over Epstein Comments (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)

You know who loves the Epstein scandal? President-in-waiting JD Vance. (Rex Huppke/USA Today)

Trump Is Very Mad at Charlamagne Tha God for Talking About Epstein (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

The New York Times, paper of record for the Deep State.

Of course, “the attack on higher education” is Narrative-speak for “telling the truth about the schooling of the Crust”. The author, Vimal Patel, is an imported Person of Color (because, as we all know, we don’t have enough domestic Persons of Color who can actually read and write English) who is serving his apprenticeship in the Halls of Narrative in order to virtue-signal his way into the Crust.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Deep State.

Especially the ones who give welfare recipients instant cash back (at a significant discount, of course) for fake purchases in a common money-laundering scheme. It’s free! Just swipe yo’ EBT!

Mysterious Orange Figure Spotted Outside Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell Night Before His Death: Report  Possibly the Ghost of the Deep State Yet to Come.

2028 Republicans pick sides on Epstein Files (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos (Allison Gill/The Breakdown)  And I am so important that they will snap right to it.

NPR, the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Nothing useful. Not one goddamned thing.

Same as every other day.

At YOUR expense.

Newsbusters.

The PBS News Hour’s bizarre post-October 7 enmity toward Israel has blared bright the last few days, eager to portray Israel, fighting for existence against a soulless enemy, Hamas, as a cruel invader purposely starving Gaza’s infants. This is the “public television” that claims to be a public service.

PBS’s coverage of late has been guilty of bias by omission, spewing phony figures and hunger anecdotes from the Hamas-controlled “Health Ministry” entity — while usually leaving out the Hamas affiliation. References to the hostages still cruelly held by Hamas were sparse.

One would think the New York Times publishing mortifying misinformation (a front-page photo on Friday of a “starving” child in Gaza who was actually suffering an unrelated medical condition) would inject a little humility into the legacy press’s assumptions of starving children in Gaza.

Guest host Lisa Desjardins opened Saturday’s News Weekend by leaving off the fact that the terrorist group controls the Gaza Health Ministry while skipping mention of the twenty or so hostages assumed to still be alive, being held by Hamas.

TDS TikToker Asks For Tips On How To Be Unattractive To “MAGA Men”, Gets A Simple Answer…

How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump’s Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl (Michael Daly/The Daily Beast)

Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre wanted files released before her death, family says (NBC News)

Trump’s Options for Dousing the Epstein Fire (Ankush Khardori/Politico)  More accurately, the Epstein smudgepot.

Why Epstein has Trump crashing out (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files (Jason Leopold/Bloomberg)

The rich and powerful go unpunished: Julie K. Brown on the scale of the Epstein scandal (The Contrarian)

Ghislaine Maxwell is quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell all on Epstein, his associates (Ben Kochman/New York Post)

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is transferred to a prison camp in Texas (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)

Antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are proliferating — and going mainstream

A MAGA Attorney Hired Epstein’s Lawyer for His ‘Valuable’ Experience (Shane Harris/The Atlantic)

Please, Mr. President, Keep Talking Epstein (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Senate Democrats try to force DOJ’s hand on Epstein files (Jordain Carney/Politico)

How Does the Epstein Scandal End? (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Trump’s explosive new claim about Epstein at odds with past statements (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  As twisted by the Narrative Media, of course.

Democrats invoke rare Senate rule to force release of Epstein documents (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Worsens as Dems Suddenly Find Big New Weapon (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Mysterious ‘Orange Shape’ Raises More Questions About Epstein Footage (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

LIVE: Epstein files news conference held by Senator Chuck Schumer

LIVE: Democrats Announce Update on Epstein Files

Corporate Media: DNI’s Russiagate Doc Dump ‘Baseless,’ ‘Distraction from Epstein’

The antitrust war inside MAGA Powerful lobbyists are battling populist reformers (Sohrab Ahmari/UnHerd)

MAGA Champion Who Said Trump Would Fight Child Predators Is Arrested on Charges of Being a Child Predator (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)

Gaza starvation widens MAGA’s rupture with Israel (Axios)

MAGA is turning on Israel over Gaza, but Trump is unmoved (Politico)

The Only MAGA That Counts Is Trump’s (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Chicago Tribune.

Fembot ‘journalism’–start with an endearing anecdote, then try to stretch it into ‘data’ that supports the agenda you started with.

Skip the first eight paragraphs to get to the actual news.

Less than a fourth of Illinois farmland is owned by the farmer who works the land, according to data from the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management, a nonprofit association that helps farmers make management decisions. The rest is leased to farmers by individuals, family trusts and, increasingly, businesses.

The Tribune is launching a series of special reports analyzing the hurdles many farmers face in trying to be good stewards of the land as climate change intensifies. Among the challenges are fewer opportunities for farmers — and would-be farmers — to own their land.

And there you have it: CLIMATE CHANGE! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Newsbusters.

Years after the Black Lives Matter protests and attendant vandalism, looting and burning, the PBS News division is suddenly worried that masks….help people get away with crimes! Why the sudden interest? Well, it’s a way to indirectly fault ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for criminals impersonating agents. Sunday’s NewsHour Weekend segment carried the online headline “Rise of ICE agents wearing masks creates opportunity for imposters to conduct crimes.”

For years conservatives have pointed out that Antifa and other left-wing mobs took advantage of masking (supported by the liberal media’s bizarre mask fetish) to hide their criminal behavior under the guise of preserving their health or hiding their identity for safety reasons. Those rules apparently don’t apply to ICE agents, who must apparently go maskless and risk doxxing from the vengeful online left.

Read it.

The Times almost certainly knew the provenance of the photos it published and didn’t care. The paper has its agenda.

Newsbusters.

n the latest installment of what is shaping up to be an ongoing series, the CBS Evening News Plus ran an item on Texas redistricting. And we continue to struggle to remember when such items ran relative to gerrymandered redistricting in Democrat states.

Newsbusters.

Another explosive Russia Hoax revelation was revealed to the public today. And, as predictable as the Sun rising in the East, the legacy media completely avoided the story.

The report goes on to note that some of those documents reveal that the intelligence community discovered, through foreign intelligence sources, that the FBI was going to play a role in spreading the collusion narrative, which we refer to as the Russia Hoax. Furthermore, the report notes that these document-laden burn bags were found in a Secure Compartmentalized Intelligence Facility (SCIF) that was known only to seniormost FBI personnel and hidden within the Hoover Building.

No time was accorded to this issue on any of the legacy newscasts airing the day of the report (July 30th), to wit: ABC, CBS, NBC. We even took a look at Univision and Telemundo. No dice. Not a single second was given to the discovery of a potentially explosive and heretofore hidden trove of documents.

ABC was so devoted to suppressing the story that they didn’t even run the customary White House roundup! No Mary Bruce or Rachel Scott! Nothing out of DC whatsoever!

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In an act many supporters of Israel were calling a “blood libel,” The New York Times first slapped an image of an emaciated Palestinian child on the front page of their Sunday edition paper and blamed Israel for his condition, accusing the Jewish state of using starvation as a weapon against children. But on Tuesday, the purported paper of record was forced to walk back their smears because it was exposed that the child had a pre-existing medical condition that was largely responsible for his physical appearance, and the image cropped out the child’s brother who appeared nourished.

In an earlier edition of the report available via the Wayback Machine, The Times introduced the child, saying: “Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, about 18 months old, lives with his mother and brother in a tent on a Gaza beach.” Adding: “Mohammed, she said, was born a healthy child. ‘I look at him and I can’t help but cry,’ she said.”

But following The Times’ emphasis on the child, it was discovered that he was born with a condition that effected his muscle development, likely contributing to the emaciated look of his body.

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CNN’s primetime viewership plunged to 497,000 in July—a 42 percent drop from the same time last year—leaving the network far behind its cable news rivals, according to multiple reports Tuesday.

The network “averaged only 497,000 total viewers in prime time for the month of July, despite unrelenting waves of major news,” journalist Oliver Darcy reported on his Substack. “MSNBC, by comparison, averaged 865,000 total viewers. Meanwhile, Fox News averaged 2.41 million viewers.”

While Darcy’s Substack is only available to paid subscribers, former CNN host Chris Cillizza quoted from the report in an X post, describing the numbers as “disastrously bad.”

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump: Epstein “stole” young woman from Mar-a-Lago spa (Ben Johansen/Politico)

Some Democrats warn that Epstein is a ‘distraction’ from Trump’s unpopular big bill (NBC News)  Guess it’s not getting as much traction as expected, so they’re trying to ‘pivot’.

Trump says Jeffrey Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from him when she worked at Mar-a-Lago spa (Minyvonne Burke/NBC News)

Rep. Burchett Injured by Horse, Keeps Up Epstein Push

Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago? (emptywheel)

Trump jolts Epstein scandal with new comments about Virginia Giuffre and Mar-a-Lago spa (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre, a heartless and revealing admission (Rex Huppke/USA Today)

White House officials say storm over Epstein has calmed (Natalie Allison/Washington Post)

GOP House committee chair yet to issue a subpoena for Epstein files (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)

Senate Democrats Try to Force Release of Epstein Files With Little-Known Law (Michael Gold/New York Times)

White House Officials Fear Epstein Fallout Will Slash Trump’s Crowd Sizes (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)  Or at least the Daily Beaet hopes it will.

Newsbusters.

This week, major news outlets like ABC and MSNBC have been up in arms over a recent instance of a model doing her job, which was of course, modeling. Calls of “white supremacist dog whistles” and “Nazi propaganda” were the topics of legacy media over a recent American Eagle ad involving actress Sydney Sweeney and her “great jeans genes” play on words.

MSNBC producer/opinion writer Hannah Holland wrote an opinion piece on the “issue” on Monday. Holland, who found herself seemingly suffering from some severe apophenia, had written articles such as “The world of ‘The Hunger Games’ feels disturbingly familiar in Trump’s America,” and “The message behind Melania Trump’s hat.”

The latter claimed that because Melania wore a dark blue hat compared to a light blue hat at Trump’s first inauguration, she was showing undertones that “the next four years are going to be as dire as they seem.”

Holland viewed the American Eagle shift from woke, obese models as an offensive attack of non-inclusivity that promoted “Nazi propaganda.” She even went as far as to say Sweeney’s willingness to participate in the ad was “obviously damaging — and, depending on who you ask, even dangerous.”

Hot Air.

It is tempting to believe that the worst people in America are the AWFLS–affluent white liberal females–but perhaps there is an even more dangerous cohort we need to worry about.

The Lumpencommentariate is a larger and growing class of political actors who provide the ground troops and the numbers for the woke mob.

It’s actually AWFULs–Affluent White Female Urban Libeals.

Obama Official Files Bombshell Demand for Epstein Files and Secret Trump Messages (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

Trump Says He Declined Epstein’s Invitation to Visit His Island: ‘I Never Had the Privilege of Going’ (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

We texted nearly 1,100 Americans about Trump and the Epstein files. Here’s what they said. (Washington Post)

Trump Explains Why He Kicked Epstein Out Of Mar-a-Lago; Turned Down Invite To Pedo Island

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A leaked email has further shown how UK state broadcaster the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has misled audiences on events in Gaza since the October 7th pogrom.

Writing in The Spectator on July 28th, broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti details how an internal memo entitled “Covering the food crisis in Gaza,” acts as “a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality.” Sent to BBC staff on Friday, July 25th, it opens with the assertion that “the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant.” Instead, “we [staff] should say” that the current distribution system “doesn’t work.”

Such criticism is directed at the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), not the United Nations’ Hamas-riddled UNWRA NGO. The BBC is instructing journalists to blame the GHF for the failure of aid to get through, rather than, say, the involvement of Hamas terrorists in attacking and looting aid shipments. As Sacerdoti argues,

The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children.

This now includes a memorandum designed to control the narrative by instructing journalists to ignore any evidence to the contrary. The email even declares that it is ‘indisputable’ that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza, despite disengaging from there in 2005. Israel presents its current action as a temporary one to defeat Hamas and its allies, and not an attempt to acquire territory.

Should they wish to watch live television, British citizens are forced to fund the BBC, on pain of a criminal record. As ‘Auntie’ lurches from one antisemitism row to another, the national broadcaster’s credibility is slumping lower and lower.

The Other McCain.

Today is a glorious day of celebration, and if you want to know why I call Glenn Kessler a “dishonest partisan propaganda merchant,” this Breitbart thread on X is a good place to begin, although of course it could never contain every bullshit “fact check” in Kessler’s long and odious career of bullshit fact-checking. When future historians examine how the mainstream media lost all credibility, Glenn Kessler’s career at the Washington Post will certainly deserve its own chapter. The man is to media credibility what Gavrilo Princip was to the empires of Europe.

Of course, the Usual Suspects in the Narrative Media are all wringing their hands and Telling Tales of Woe at this loss of one of the leading champions of Wokery in D.C.

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus, co-hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz brought on Doctors Without Borders U.S. CEO Avril Benoit to promulgate some absurd theories on the war in Gaza.. Discussing the situation of humanitarian aid in the area, all the blame was on Israel as they ignored Hamas’s role in confiscating the aid for themselves, and the correction the Doctors Without Borders head suggested? Countries without borders.

…

While there was truth to the claim that resources in Gaza were limited, and that there was indeed need for humanitarian aid, to place the blame solely on Israel’s restrictions in the war-torn region was a gross misrepresentation of the facts.

Of course, the segment did not so much as mention Hamas even once while discussing the humanitarian crisis, such as their confiscation of aid shipments at gun point.

Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda (Washington Post)

Exclusive: Private Probe of Alleged Epstein–Mossad Links (Jeff Stein/SpyTalk)

NPR Plays Up Bias! Trump ‘Endlessly Linked In Story After Story’ to Epstein

Johnson Blasts Massie and Khanna’s ‘Reckless’ Epstein File Discharge Petition

On Epstein, Democrats have Mike Johnson running scared (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Washington Post Admits: ‘No Evidence’ Trump Tied to Epstein Scandal

Trump in Rage Mode as Epstein Storm Refuses to Die Down (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)

What to know about the metastasizing Jeffrey Epstein controversy (Amber Phillips/Washington Post)

The Epstein Scandal Is a Democrat One: Here’s the Big Names

Trump Said He Threw Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago

You Must Read ‘Epstein Scandal Is a Democrat One: We Name the Big Names’

Trump Seeks Swift Deposition of Murdoch in Epstein Defamation Case

Trump asks for swift deposition of Murdoch in Epstein defamation case (Luc Cohen/Reuters)

PROPAGANDA: NBC Implies EU Deal Was Done as a Distraction from Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell files Supreme Court brief appealing Epstein conviction (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Targeting Epstein’s ‘sweetheart’ deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008 (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump says he turned down visit to Epstein’s island (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump: Name May Have Been Planted in Epstein Files by Dems

Trump seeks quick deposition of Rupert Murdoch in Jeffrey Epstein letter defamation case (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Trump Reveals Why He Fell Out With Jeffrey Epstein

‘We’re not shielding anything,’ Vance says of Epstein files (Hannah Demissie/ABC News)

Trump Gives Totally Different Answer Than White House For Epstein Split (Ryan Grenoble/HuffPost)

Trump Takes Break From $10 Million Golf Vacation To Put Forward New Jeffrey Epstein Explanation (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Is The Epstein Affair A Watershed Moment?

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Maxwell’s ‘Whole Truth’ on Epstein Will Disappoint

GOP Sen. Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein’s Plea Deal (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Speaker Johnson says all ‘credible’ Epstein files should be released: Full interview (NBC News)

Mullin: Epstein Prosecuted by Bush, Trump; Silence Under Obama, Biden

Some Republicans aren’t backing down from Epstein transparency push (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Johnson says Ghislaine Maxwell deserves life sentence over Epstein crimes, rejects potential pardon (Danielle Wallace/Fox News)