Maga movement can “go back” outrageous statements, and the press is unlikely to ask in the following actions.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, talked to Media members in the US Capitol in Washington, Colombia County on July 3, 2025.
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For all justified accents on the authoritarian Trump administration program and the set address Driving protocols It went with him, the main apparatus for the messaging behind him, attracted scanty attention. As it happens, last weekend put a couple of illustrations of textbooks showing how Elite Maga Power Elite throttle in the media to serve their goals.
The exhibit was the speaker of the home of Mike Johnson, the bizarre declaration of the Capitolian hill, which was operated by President Donald Trump As the FBI informant During his decade and a half friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “He was an FBI informant to try to shoot these things,” Johnson said confidently without presenting any evidence.
In all likelihood, the Johnson-Maga Maga Wind Sock, which is known to seek the constitutional justification of the unsuccessful coup on January 6-enter your basic instincts, will mislead it in the fanfic style. But, as is often the case in such episodes, misleading a key board that fantasizes the GOP base that fantasize about Trump-epshte’s relationship; For the believers of the canon, the opinion that Trump was an informant, rationalizing his long brother from Epstein.
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Although Trump himself dismissed any past civilian relationship with the FBI though he did some Information about work To promote his interests, the casino is, which is much more on brands than in the depths of the cover, focused on the notorious sexual predator of minors. It doesn’t matter that when Trump took this hidden role, it did not prevent him from helping Epstein’s allies; In 2017, Trump’s first White House signed up for Alexander Akosta, former prosecutor Florida, who oversee there an APSHTINA prison agreement there, As its work secretary. And despite the fact that only two months ago Trump sharply fired The federal prosecutor who did Give Epstein to justice, without a plausible justification. But the inhabitants of the worlds who overlap with canons and mashes are never delayed by the muddy opinions of evidence.
However, Johnson’s dispute caused instant rollback that most significantly From the White House itselfBecause informants in most legal cases are compatriots. In his Purbrad areas, like Trump Sicafant, Johnson has twisted the most attention to Trump’s position in the Epstein Circle that the administration is desperately striving for a short circuit. Thus, Johnson was forced to issue an explanatory statement, which, as characteristic of the genre, did not specify anything. “The speaker repeats what the prosecutor of the victims said is that Donald Trump, who expelled Epstein from Mar-a-lago, was the only one more than a decade ago, ready to help the prosecutor’s office expose Epstein for a disgusting child,” the statement was partly read.
Johnson clumsily referred to Brad Edwards’ remark, a lawyer for several Epstein victims, believing that Trump collaborated with his efforts to document Epstein’s abuse; But the full comments of Edwards at a press conference last week, which took place by the victims of the Epstein, indicates that after Trump discussed the victims with him in 2009, Trump made “approximately”, holding Epstein; Edwards also never thought that Trump worked with federal law enforcement officers. In other words: Johnson tried to divert attention from his own wholesale EPStein’s case with another wholesale product about the Epstein case.
However it was not a conclusion from the coverage of the original gap and its consequences – even Washington Post‘s Own story with reference to Edwards’ comments Rakhman writes that Johnson “refused”, saying the informant, not citing a wider movement suffering from conspiracy, the case that first excited him to swim. Newsweek was satisfied to report that Johnson “Clarified” your commentator comment– Something that happened in an unknown universe where words make sense.
Similarly, no news that covers the dispute has interfered with any context for Johnson’s quick quote about Epstein’s eviction due to the Mar-A-Lago rolls, which gets a speaker’s statement when another blow was hit on Epstein’s victims. It is true that in some explanations Trump about the gap between two men, the terrible attention of Epstein to the daughter of a member of Mar-a-lago plays his role. But Trump’s latest last account suggests that the violation was because Epstein “stream“Former Mar-A-Lago employee Virginia Jufre from his-up as much language, which may be accepted by a heroic secret figure that exposes Epstein’s career as sexual trade.
Instead, the whole news cycle of Johnson followed the Beltway standard for political leaders who briefly summoned their own public statements: a formalistic exercise, through which the moment the potential scandal was passively “went back” and all the appropriate players feel relief to move on.
The same context discourse that contains context is dominated by Maga-Walkback: Go to war with the city of Chicago Under the table of the paper fight against a violent crime there. In this case, to explain Trump even less space than Johnson; Trump said Chicago was going to find out why Trump renamed the Defense Department as the Ministry of War, and the meme has the image of Trump, which was registered as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Duval Bill Kilgora from Apocalypse now. (Which Trump threw as “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.”) To somehow somehow landed with a muted blow, the meme appeared under the headline “Chipacalipse” with the image of the city.
However, the same selected and the media brace “go back” went on schedule. “Border King” White House Tom Homan came to Cnn’s The state of the union It is boldly stated that Trump’s meme was “withdrawn from context” and “criminal cartels” are the object of militarized anger of the country. You might think that the next question may appear, asking why, if it was actually, the meme did not have the legend “Cartel-Pocalypse now” (which is much more euphonic than the windy city it used) or stipulated that cartels, not the city, was going to collapse because of the Pentagon.
Instead, the press necessarily pushed the magician, which was lying about the lying brand. The Homon’s spread law made it through the Sunday news cycle in the same way as Johnson and the interested viewers and readers essentially said that there was nothing to see here. Meanwhile, usually offensive and false Trump exchange with NBC Yamiche Alcindor reporter approximately the same post that gave up This title is Milquetoast in The New York Times: “Trump drops after Chicago’s threat, says he wants to” clean “the city.
Of course, the functional political press may notice that Napalm is a substance that has fascinated the sniffing work of Bill Kilgora in Francis Ford Copol’s deadly stupid war in the US against the Northern Vietnam – it was also accepted in this conflict for purification: to expose Vietny’s position. (The inventor of the incendiary gel also never provided this used against people But as a means of destroying buildings.) A critically-minded press building can even go further to note that the nature of the kilgor in the film is a very blind Jingoist Huris, which the Trump administration begins that it launches its war in US cities-and that the war in Vietnam, especially, is. But what do I say? After all, everything went back.
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