“Public” broadcasting will always go after Trump, so their Week In Politics segment on Weekend Edition Saturday obsessed over Jeffrey Epstein.
At least anchor Scott Simon played a clip of Trump throwing shade on Bill Clinton (which NPR doesn’t want to address): “You know, you should focus on Clinton. You should focus on the president of Harvard, the former president of Harvard [Lawrence Summers, also Treasury Secretary under Clinton]. You should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I'll give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I sure as hell didn't.”
Those Democrats were then immediately forgotten. Simon asked NPR political analyst Ron Elving:
SIMON: Ron, where do you see this controversy headed?
ELVING: It could go any number of directions, but it's not going away. It seems to travel at Trump's speed wherever he goes. He got an Epstein question getting on the plane here, another when he landed in Scotland....
So he has to hope it all goes away before the fall. But right now, Epstein is the one name in the news as often as Trump, and the two are being endlessly linked in story after story, with all those chummy photos from back in the day.
This is one of those things that liberal journalists do that sounds like passive-aggressive bullying: “So we just happen to be endlessly linking you with a notorious sex-trafficker in story after story, with all those chummy photos. Gosh, how does this keep happening?” They wonder why people hate them.
Simon and Elving didn’t find the Russiagate hoax worth discussing. On Wednesday’s Morning Edition, they carried this tilted headline: “President Trump deflects questions about Epstein probe with accusations about Obama.” The online summary: “President Trump turned to a nearly 8-year-old controversy Tuesday when asked about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that's been plaguing him for weeks, pivoting to Russian meddling in the 2016 election.”
The media are never “deflecting” when they choose the Trump-punishing story over the Democrat-scrutinizing story.
But you have to laugh at the sound of this: Trump turned to an outdated "nearly 8-year-old controversy" when we’re trying to punish him with a birthday card he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein 22 years ago.
