Posted on 07/29/2025 6:10:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Shortly after President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason – an epithet that has been thrown at Trump practically every day – Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said: “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
Distraction from what?
Rodenbush didn’t have to say, because the media have been busy filling in that blank.
“Trump tries to distract from Epstein by casually accusing Obama of treason,” is how MSNBC put it.
CNN’s headline blared that “Trump’s longtime rage at Obama roars back amid Epstein furor.”
“Critics say Trump is trying to distract from Epstein by talking about everything but that,” is how ABC News put it.
Let’s see if we understand this.
We’ve just learned that hundreds of pages of declassified documents appear to show that Barack Obama orchestrated a phony Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) report, issued just before Trump first took office in 2017, that accused Vladimir Putin of ordering an “influence campaign” to “denigrate” Clinton and “help” Trump win the 2016 election, in a apparent attempt to sabotage Trump’s presidency.
As RealClearPolitics’ Paul Sperry reported last week:
‘Obama ordered the ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started,’ said the senior official, who asked to remain anonymous. ‘This was an influence operation far more consequential than anything [Russian President Vladimir] Putin cooked up. Obama and Hillary [Clinton] schemed the op, and the CIA and FBI ran it.’
But to Trump haters in the press, this is just a “distraction” from the really important issue: Namely, unverified rumors and wild speculation about Trump’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison six years ago.
Isn’t that it more likely that the media’s Epstein fixation is meant to distract the public from the startling Obama news? Or Trump’s many successes in his first six months? And isn’t this just another attempt to sabotage his presidency as his term is getting started? This Washington Post headline says it all: “Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda.”
Well, that got us wondering what constitutes a “distraction” in the eyes of the media.
Back when Joe Biden was in the White House and Republicans were launching an impeachment investigation, the press called that “a political distraction from other priorities.”
What priorities? The press was happy to parrot Biden’s line that “I’ve got a job to do. I’ve got to deal with issues that affect the American people every single solitary day.”
We saw the same thing during the Obama and Clinton administrations, where any whiff of a scandal was dismissed by the press as a “distraction” from the important work of running the country. And whenever Ronald Reagan, or a Bush, or Trump wanted to talk about real issues, the press treated that as an attempt to divert attention to whatever scandal they were playing up.
The Daily Beast provides yet another example of how this works, with its headline over the weekend that “Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic.”
So, we decided to write down the official media definition of “distraction.”
Distraction (n.):
1. Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat
2. Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative
We hope this clears things up.
The media does not even seem embarrassed.
Why would the propaganda arm of the socialists be embarrassed about spewing propaganda/lies against their enemy?
The media does not even seem embarrassed.
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Nor are hysterical freepers
;-)
Trump has the world view of a patriot.
It is simple but not simplistic.
Folks who hold office in gubmint either put AMERICA FIRST or they don’t.
And he has a big problem with those that don’t.
BKmk
“Isn’t that it more likely that the media’s Epstein fixation is meant to distract the public from the startling Obama news?”
CLEARLY that’s the case, and many here are falling for it.
Where was the media’s interest in all things Epstein hiding during the entire Biden administration? Trump has only been in office six months yet the media thinks he should suddenly come clean about an issue that Biden NEVER addressed and is somehow not being held accountable for.
My thought is that there is something implicating someone close to Trump, not much (and maybe even false), but enough to make Trump hesitate. The other 98% is likely Democrats, which is why Biden’s Girls were not about to release it.
If it were closer to 50/50, then Biden’s Girls would have released it, since people who believe in cutting the dicks off of little boys likely don’t care much about their elected officials being forced into sex by a pervert...but the damage on the Republican side would have been massive.
The Democrats are gambling on Trump holding his ground and Conservatives taking the bait that Trump is hiding something massive...when, again, Biden’s Girls had access to all of that info and chose to keep it hidden.
Nice turn of phrase, spot on.
BFLR
Democrats had complete control of the Epstein files for years, so I suspect that dirt on all, or almost all, Democrats has already been scrubbed clean, leaving only the dirt on Republicans.
Yes. The Epstein story is the distraction. Trumps many successes are the news.
They have ZERO shame.
BTTT
Folks who hold office in gubmint either put AMERICA FIRST or they don’t.
And he has a big problem with those that don’t.
Short of firing every single one and starting over, he’ll never get rid of them all; he and his loyalists need to be hypervigilent to find and get rid of as many as possible.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. A crutch for people who can't handle reality.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. A crutch for people who can't handle reality.
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