Jorge Bonilla’s raging about “Epstein slop” isn’t the only way the Media Research Center is trying to distract from Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with Donald Trump. Intern Isaac White complained in a Nov. 15 post:
On her Thursday night program, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki accused the Trump administration of wrongfully using the name of well-known Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre as a means to discredit the recent unveiling of Epstein e-mails.
Many Democrats have held that pushing for a full-disclosure of information relating to the late sex offender could expose potential co-perpetrators and would bring justice to his many victims. But Psaki didn’t seem to care about what the late Giuffre had to say. She shamed the White House for naming her.
The Briefing host claimed: “… Trump and the White House are already trying to discredit everything in this trove of documents. They’re working overtime to do this. And they are trying to use the name of Epstein survivor to get away with it.”
Here’s the background: the Epstein scandal was reignited on Wednesday when House Oversight Committee Democrats, in an attempt to shift attention away from the ending government shutdown, released three emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that referenced Trump, in which victims’ names were redacted. In response, the Republican majority released over 20,000 documents and chastised the minority for deceptively redacting Giuffre’s name.
[…]Republicans weren’t “outing” Giuffre since she was already publicly known to be a victim and spoke publicly about Trump. The deceased Giuffre had already recalled Trump not participating in any illicit activity relating to Epstein.
Apparently, it’s OK to out Guiffre because she’s dead and was “already publicly known to be a victim.” Funny how that works. White didn’t explain why this is an exception.
Steve Malzberg used a Nov. 17 post to peddle a conspiracy theory:
A strange thing happened on the Saturday edition of CNN’s Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield. Her guest California Democrat Congressman Brad Sherman suddenly could no longer hear the host, when she turned the questioning to the Epstein files. Sherman had no problem hearing and answering questions on the impending floods and mudslides in his home state, and the DOJ’s challenge of California’s Congressional redistricting bill, Proposition 50, passed on election day.
[…]First, let me say that until proven otherwise, and it won’t be, even if there is proof held by CNN, I will believe that the Congressman couldn’t hear Whitfield. Having said that, there are some questions that need to be asked.
First, did Sherman panic and fear that after Epstein comes Sherman and his plane pics? Second, would he be correct in his assumption? Would Whitfield act as a true journalist, at least for this interview, and ask the obvious of the Congressman, or would she never bring it up, you know since he’s a liberal and all. We may never know.
Just as we may never know why Malzberg chose to use “Democrat” instead of “Democratic” to describe Sherman’s political party.
The same day, P.J. Gladnick insisted there was no link between Trump and Epstein:
Epstein slop has now apparently reached the outermost limits of absurdity with Monday’s New Yorker entirely incapable finding anything actually incriminating about President Donald Trump in the latest release of the Jeffrey Epstein documents. So what to do? What to do? Well, New Yorker editor Jessica Winter seems to have drawn the short stick to “earn” this assignment and completely embarrassed herself with a theory about “negative space” in “The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails.”
The subtitle reflects the fact that Winter found absolutely no there there since the worst allegation tossed Trump’s way is something called “negative space”: Donald Trump occupies a kind of negative space in the available files, which run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved.
Spoiler alert: Nothing really negative about Trump was found so Winters dreamed up something called “negative space” to gloss over that sad fact. In fact, her “negative space” is reminiscent of “dark energy” which is defined as a mysterious force in the universe whose exact nature is unknown and whose very existence can only be inferred.
[…]It could be, that the New Yorker, once known for quality writing, has fallen so low that ingestion of magic mushrooms could be the answer. Or at least that answer could lay in some sort of “negative space” somewhere in the Phantom Zone.
Oh, and a nomination for the Epstein Slop story of the year.
Ah, yes, “Epstein slop.” Seems like Gladnick has been reading too much Jorge Bonilla — and ignores the likelihood that Trump officials have been redacting Trump’s name in the Epstein messages.
Tim Graham ginned up a conspiracy theory for his Nov. 18 podcast:
Once the Schumer Shutdown collapsed by the defection of more compromising Democrats, we’re back in a conveniently timed outbreak of Jeffrey Epstein mania, appearing to change the subject away to whatever Democrats wanted to discuss now. Hundreds of network minutes have been spent making hyper-negative noises on how President Trump’s interactions with Epstein are the latest exhibit of his evil ways.
MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider and MRCTV host Justine Brooke Murray join the show. The House Oversight Committee, which spent the summer investigating how Biden’s White House staff hid his mental decline, was aerobically ignored until it took up the Epstein documents.
This didn’t just attract hundreds of minutes of network news coverage this year. It’s been a hot topic for late-night comedy in its anti-Trump crusade. NBC’s Saturday Night Live was obsessed in its latest episode. It started with a dreadfully done awful satire of the White House briefing. There were three pre-recorded “McGruber” parodies with an Epstein theme. Then their “Weekend Update” fake news was truly fake: “In one of the emails, Epstein’s brother asked if Vladimir Putin has a picture of Donald Trump giving oral sex to someone named Bubba. Which was an old nickname for Bill Clinton. So I guess that’s one job Trump has created.”
Weird that Graham gets so offended by clearly identified fake news.