“Slop” is a word that is most closely associated these days with AI-generated content, but Media Research Center writer Jorge Bonilla has used the word to rage against those who bring up Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which is very much not AI-generated. Bonilla groused in a Nov. 13 post that Epstein’s relationship with Trump was discussed in recently released emails:
The purpose of the email drop was to attempt to implicate President Donald Trump in some manner of improper behavior. A key element to this strategy was that the victim’s name was redacted. But the whole thing was debunked fairly quickly when it became known that the redacted name was that of the late Virginia Giuffre, who asserted that she never witnessed Trump do any wrongdoing.
With the Mystery victim gone, what purpose was there to running this slop? And not just running slop but in the case of ABC and NBC, leading the newscast with it. With no more shutdown to pitch panic from, the Elitist Media gleefully jumped on to the next bandwagon.
With the discharge petition now having obtained 218 signatures, there will be a renewed battle for the release of the Epstein Files. We’ll be monitoring the Elitist Media very closely.
Why? Is Bonilla afraid that the Trump-Epstein relationship will gain prominence? Apparently so, given how much he use “slop” in relation to Epstein in the following days. Indeed, “Epstein slop” appeared again in the headline of a Nov. 16 post:
The Elitist Media’s Sunday shows all ran with a significant chunk of Jeffrey Epstein slop as this week’s top story, a pivot we saw happen in real time in the aftermath of the end of the Democrat-instigated-and-prolonged government shutdown. And in the midst of all that coverage was a significant and predictable omission.
[…]Epstein coaching a Member of Congress as to what questions to ask of a committee witness isn’t notable? Does this not warrant prominence on the Sunday shows? For an Elitist Media intent on mining the “Epstein Files” for revelations, this is a huge omission. But not surprising, because this does not directly implicate President Donald Trump in any crime.
Instead, we get process slop across the dial. Most representative of this is the full package prepared by ABC’s Mary Bruce for This Week. Needless to say, it was quite Mary Brucey.
[…]As is the case with “news” in the Trump Era, the durability of a story is directly proportional to its ability to (a) cast aspersions on Donald Trump, and/or (b) cover up some other, more nefarious scandal. A post-shutdown pivot to Epstein is time not spent on Operation Arctic Frost, the non-domiciled commercial driver’s license scandal, or any one of a long list of issues that merit scrutiny. Instead, Sunday viewers continue to get fed anti-news slop.
Bonilla did not explain why aspersions should not be cast on Trump regarding Epstein, or why those other stories are supposedly more newsworthy and not the “anti-news slop” he claims the Epstein story is.
The same day, Bonilla pushed his “Epstein slop” narrative again:
As the Elitist Media Sunday Shows continue to shove Epstein Slop down viewers’ throats, there emerges an alternative to answering the same dopey questions over and over again. As Senator John Barrasso demonstrates, the line of questioning changes when the host is faced with an actual scandal that they don’t want to cover.
Watch as Barrasso confronts Welker with an uncomfortable scandal that the Elitist Media are yet to cover: Operation Arctic Frost.
[…]This exchange is quite reminiscent of the last scandal suppressed by the Elitist Media’s Sunday Shows and only discussed when a Republican brought it up: the horrifically violent text messages sent to a colleague by the now-Attorney General Elect of Virginia, Jay Jones:
Bonilla seems to have forgotten that Jones was still elected despite all the right-wing caterwauling over his texts. He went on to describe Arctic Frost as a “rogue operation by Special Counsel Jack Smith they yielded countless subpoenas against conservatives and conservative organizations.” That omits certain crucial facts, such as the operation’s focus on searching phone records to look for suspected 2020 election subversion.
Bonilla dropped “Epstein slop” once more in a Nov. 19 post:
A dramatic vote on the House floor brought an ending to this chapter in the long-running Epstein Files Saga. But the Elitist Media continued to cover for Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett getting coached by Epstein in the middle of a congressional hearing.
Most emblematic of the coverage, David Muir’s lengthy and overwrought opening which could have well served as a brief:
[…]As the documents go public, how much longer will the media insist on covering for Plaskett? Time will tell.
Bonilla didn’t explain why he considers Plaskett more newsworthy than Trump. It’s almost as if he’s following a specific narrative to distract from Trump’s relationship with Epstein.