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Prose & Contradiction – THE NEW YORKER
Don't let the lack of evidence prevent you from leveling accusations!
Jessica Winter displays all of the desperation seen from the press over the past couple of weeks concerning the Epstein emails. Two things have been obvious this month: The press desperately wants to hang President Trump over Jeffrey Epstein, and they cannot come up with anything concrete in order to do so.
Winter displays this in her desired hit piece. Just start with the title and sub-header:
“The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails”
Donald Trump occupies a kind of negative space in the available files, which run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved.
There is a reason she resorts to this nebulous reference to "negative space" in the emails. This is because, despite the bulk of her 1,400-plus words being dedicated to implicating Trump in some manner, there is a fully disqualifying thread in this tangle of supposition, 17 words that cancel out the whole piece. In reference to Virginia Giuffre, the Epstein victim most closely associated with Trump, Winter admits: "But Giuffre, who died in April, always maintained that she had never witnessed inappropriate conduct by Trump."
Uh-huh, well, by all means, don't let that testimony, and the abject lack of evidence, dissuade you from your yellow journalism.
The Epstein e-mails run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved, Jessica Winter writes. Their darkest thread is the obsequious reverence for the reviled sex offender. https://t.co/mZs14Kgfds
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 17, 2025
Prose & Contradiction – POLITICO
This entire piece can be summed thusly: "Okay, sure – but…"
In an identical fashion to Winter, Dasha Burns was covering the vote in Congress to release the Epstein files, and with the news of the release, she tries to cling to some manner of culpability involving President Trump. While the bulk of her report is pure implication, she, too, is discredited by a lone sentence in her piece:
Trump has denied wrongdoing in relation to the Epstein allegations, and no evidence has suggested that Trump took part in Epstein’s crimes.
Still, Burns did her best to spin this as a negative for Trump and the Republicans, going so far as to say, "The realization that he'd be on the wrong side of the vote left Trump no choice but to give his blessing."
With this passage Dasha Burns strains to still paint this as negatively as possible for Trump, despite one glaring detail -- she admits there is no proof to hang him with in the emails.
— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) November 19, 2025
"No evidence has suggested that Trump took part in Epstein’s crimes."https://t.co/FWBRWmYwTH pic.twitter.com/2Y9DztviP9
Democratic Custodial Services – CNN
Ms. Plaskett thanks you for your efforts.
The Epstein files are beginning to be more than an unexploded dud – they are beginning to blow up in the faces of Democrats. Larry Summers has already been taken out by his culpability with Epstein, and now Rep. Stacey Plaskett has been implicated. She was in regular contact with the pedophile predator, and even had been receiving text messages where he was coaching her DURING a House hearing.
She went on CNN to perform a cleanup segment, and there was Wolf Blitzer obliging her, allowing Plaskett to dismiss her contacts as being just with a constituent. (Just try texting your representative, any time of day, and see how responsive they are.) What has to go unexplored is that he was only a constituent due to Epstein Island existing within the U.S.V.I. territory that Plaskett represents. Sure, let's dredge up that connection, Stacey.
Wolf & Co. also allowed Plaskett this dodge about donations, in her excuse-making appearance:
After the last investigation came out, which was after this texting, I gave many donations I previously received from him to women’s organizations, and did not have any contact with him.
The dodge here is her use of "the last investigation." They allowed this spin to stand, despite the fact that at the time of the texting during her congressional hearing, in 2019, it had been more than a decade since Epstein was charged with solicitation and sex with minors. For them not to challenge her over this is remarkably unacceptable.
Stacey Plaskett — who orchestrated a tax dodge for Epstein’s Sex Slave Island & received a job in return — tells CNN he was just another constituent.
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 19, 2025
BLITZER: “What was your relationship with Epstein?”
Plaskett: “So Jeffrey Epstein was a constituent. He was a resident of the… pic.twitter.com/7KBzTvmcnR
Both Kinds of Standards – CNN
Yes, Andy, where do they learn this stuff?!
After President Trump held a contentious presser in the Oval Office, where he berated some members of the press, many journalists have risen up today to express outrage at the intemperate attitude seen from the president.
“I just don’t understand how somebody acts like this.” Anderson Cooper torches Donald Trump, is flabbergasted by how casually Trump insults reporters. pic.twitter.com/BX2cjQGFd2
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) November 19, 2025
These would be many of the same journos who do not hesitate to call Trump "Hitler," a Nazi, fascist, etc.
But it is especially amusing to see this response from Anderson Cooper. Watching him act bemused at how someone can be this crass in knee-jerk fashion, we just had to laugh.
Just to be clear, @JoeConchaTV, it was THIS Anderson who is dismayed at that type of language...? https://t.co/cifRPXHxSe pic.twitter.com/y2pBTQSQid
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) November 19, 2025
Reporting on the Mirror – TEEN VOGUE
In a speech to save their jobs, she managed to explain why they were let go.
This is just some oblivious comedy.
Following the dissolution of Teen Vogue, some of the workers staged a protest outside the Condé Nast offices, as if that would change anyone's mind. She rattles off many of the attributes of the former magazine, which explains the dismal readership. She also listed off a number of those let go who were people from a variety of identity politics categories, and then declared that many of those laid off were people from those demographic groups. She is apparently unable to put together that when you populate a staff with people from marginalized groups, when that staff is let go, it will greatly impact people from those marginalized groups.
And they wonder why they had been let go…
Woke leftist complains about being laid off from Teen Vogue, but her speech inadvertently ends up explaining everything that was wrong with Teen Vogue. pic.twitter.com/OD2IqxuRIQ
— Amala Ekpunobi (@amalaekpunobi) November 19, 2025
