Short of some type of editorial interference coming from the powers that be, one media expert expects the reporting side of the Wall Street Journal to keep breaking stories on Donald Trump and his Jeffrey Epstein entanglement.
In a report on the split personality exhibited by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, with the Journal dropping bombshells on the Trump White House over the Epstein files, and Fox News hosts avoiding the hot topic as best they can, there are questions about how it will all come out the end.
According to the Guardian’s Ben Makuch, while the Epstein firestorm has consumed the major news networks, Fox News has focused it’s attention on accusations from DNI Tulsi Gabbard that former President Barack Obama has been guilty of treason.
His report notes that on Fox, “In one of the days following the fallout from Epstein, mentions of Obama’s name reportedly drowned out that of the convicted pedophile and suspected spy, by a score of 117 to two.”
Despite Trump’s threat to sue Murdoch and the Journal for $10 billion over accusations that have proven to be true, one media watcher claimed there are no indications that someone is calling off the dogs at the WSJ.
Edward Ongweso Jr, a senior researcher at Security in Context, told the Guardian, “Clearly, Trump wants to distract from the fact that he had a close and intimate friendship with Epstein, a billionaire pedophile that seemed to have set up a global trafficking ring. And he wants to distract from the obvious implication of his about-face here (going from insisting the Epstein files will be released to insisting they never did and were invented by Democrats to take him down): that he’s in them.”
He conceded, “It is hard to imagine how any of his tactics will work, but then again he has gotten out of almost every single situation that would’ve doomed anyone else, hasn’t he?”
Having said that, he stated that he believes the Journal will be relentless.
“WSJ reporters might smell blood in the water for the president and report on him accordingly,” Makuch wrote with Ongweso, explaining, “There has been a trickle of additional Epstein-Trump material, most recently the resurfacing of photos showing Epstein at Trump’s 1993 wedding to Martha Maples. There is certainly more that WSJ reporters will uncover and unless there’s editorial interference, I can’t see how Murdoch’s empire can stop itself from uttering his name again.”
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