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- ‘Propaganda Slop’: Lightning Rod Journalist Calls Epstein Saga the ‘Worst ...
(Photo Credit: Piers Morgan Uncensored) Prominent Substack writer Michael Tracey argued that the Jeffrey Epstein saga stands out as the “worst covered story” in decades in a new feature story published by The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. THR dubbed Tracey the “Face of Epstein Skepticism” in its headline, and with good reason. Tracey has fought the widespread belief that Epstein was running a massive pedophile network for rich politicians and celebrities on both his Substack blog and on X, where users frequently rip him for questioning how sordid Epstein really was. “I am more convinced than ever,” Tracey told The Hollywood Reporer, “that this is by far the worst covered story of my lifetime.” Writer Seth Abramovitch noted Tracey does not believe Epstein was innocent, but that the coverage of his crimes has suffered from “narrative inflation.” Tracey also criticized streaming services like Netflix for pumping out Epstein-focused series, saying it’s nothing more than “propaganda slop.” “The documented crimes are horrific enough,” Tracey said. “You don’t need to turn it into a grand unifying conspiracy theory that explains the entire world.” Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges involving a minor in Florida in 2008; he was facing federal sex trafficking charges in 2019 when he died in prison. His accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for multiple sex crime convictions, including for trafficking a minor. The public fixation on Epstein spurred lawmakers to force the Justice Department to release millions of files tied to Epstein. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently said the DOJ has complied with federal law and released “all” Epstein documents, following the batch of 3.5 million documents published at the end of January. President Donald Trump’s critics have focused on his once-chummy relationship with Epstein, but the president has said the files “absolve” him of any wrongdoing. One released FBI document demonstrated that Trump thanked Florida cops for investigating Epstein and told them to “focus” on “evil” Maxwell back in 2006. Tracey — during a recent viral appearance on Piers Morgan’s show — argued the public, media, and congressional focus on Epstein has morphed into a “brainless hysteria.” He has been criticized for his coverage of other hot button topics in the past as well, like when he said journalists were falling for “the Ukraine government’s deliberately-crafted war propaganda” about the Bucha Massacre in 2022. Tracey said his comments on the Russian atrocities were taken out of context.… [TheTopNews] Read More.14 mins ago - The White House Is Acting Like It’s Losing the Iran War Narrative
Drew Angerer/Getty Images The United States is at war with Iran. Strikes are ongoing, killing dozens of Iran’s clerics and military leaders. Retaliation has already taken the lives of six U.S. soldiers. By any conventional measure of Republican politics, the White House should be feeling good about where it stands: 77% of Republicans approve of the operation, and self-identified MAGA voters are, according to a new CNN poll, nearly 50 points more likely than non-MAGA Republicans to trust Trump on the use of force in Iran. So why is the White House acting like it’s losing? Because the polling isn’t the problem. The narrative is. Across the 24 hours following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Capitol remarks on Monday, a clear pattern emerged: speed, volume, and frame-correction. The White House, the president, and top surrogates weren’t simply explaining the operation — they were repeatedly pivoting to repair a specific interpretation of it. And the interpretation they were most desperate to kill wasn’t coming from Democrats or the mainstream press. It was coming from inside the house. Rubio handed them the problem, inadvertently. Asked why the strike happened now, he walked through a sequencing that made strategic sense in full but was combustible in isolation: Israel was going to act, Iran would retaliate against American forces, so the U.S. struck first to reduce casualties. Paired with his argument about Iran’s missile production outpacing American interceptor capacity — roughly 100 ballistic missiles produced per month against six or seven interceptors — the full answer was defensible. But the viral fragment told a different story: Israel moved, and America followed. For an “America First” coalition already primed for skepticism about Middle East entanglements, that sequence read less like sovereign strategy than like getting dragged in by an ally. The White House recognized the hazard almost immediately. What followed wasn’t routine communications. It was damage control with a specific target. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t route her response through a friendly TV hit or a podium statement. When Daily Wire host Matt Walsh wrote that the administration’s messaging was, “to put it mildly, confused,” she replied to him directly on social media — not with a talking point but with an enumerated list of objectives and maximalist language about enemy deaths and outcomes. That’s not how you respond to a manageable complaint. That’s how you respond when you think a frame is about to… [TheTopNews] Read More.25 mins ago - Trump Gets His Own Father’s Birthplace Wrong in Rambling White House Exchange
President Donald Trump got his own father’s birthplace wrong during a rambling exchange at a photo op with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House on Tuesday. The president and Chancellor Merz gave remarks and answered questions from reporters in the Oval Office, during which Trump was peppered with questions about the war with Iran, which is being carried out without congressional approval. At one point, Trump delivered a tirade about Spain that prompted a follow-up question to Chancellor Merz, who spent about 30 seconds answering it. As reporters began shouting more questions, Trump launched into a falsehood-riddled rant that included the false claim that his own father was born in Germany: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They’ve been very– Spain has been very very uncooperative and so has U.K. Now the second one is shocking, but this is not the age of Churchill. I will say the U.K. has been, very very, uncooperative. With that stupid island that they have that they gave away and took a hundred-year lease, having to do with perhaps indigenous people claiming the island, that never even saw the island before. What’s that all about? And they ruin relationships. It’s a shame. And that country, U.K., and I love that country. I love it. My mother was born there. I love. My mother, was born there. My father was born–. (GESTURES TO GERMAN CHANCELLOR He knows all about my father. My father was born there. So, you know, there are places that you sort of automatically very, very feel warmly about. But the U.K., what they’re doing with energy and what they are doing with immigration is horrible. President Trump’s father Fred Trump was born in the Bronx in New York City, a fact that seems to come and go from Trump’s knowledge base. He made the Germany claim during the same 2019 photo op where he repeatedly referenced the “oranges” of the Mueller investigation. Trump also made the claim in a CBS News interview in 2018 and in a 2020 Fox News interview. But other times, he has made the more accurate claim that his father’s parents were from Germany, as he did just a few months ago. Watch above via CNN.The post Trump Gets His Own Father’s Birthplace Wrong in Rambling White House Exchange first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.42 mins ago - Six US Soldiers Killed in ‘Triple-Wide Trailer’ in Kuwait — Hegseth Claims...CNN anchor Pamela Brown brought on International Security Correspondent Zach Cohen on Tuesday to discuss the latest details about the six service members who were killed over the weekend by an Iranian drone strike, including new details about the facility they were in. “Sunday’s Iranian strike that killed six U.S. service members in Kuwait—they were in a makeshift operations center that one source describes as a triple-wide trailer. So I want to bring in CNN International Security Reporter Zach Cohen to learn more about this. Now we’re learning six service members killed,” Brown began. “Yeah, the U.S. military is acknowledging the death toll for U.S. service members has increased steadily to six after the remains of two additional service members who were previously unaccounted for were found,” replied Cohen, adding: And look, we’re also learning that U.S. service members in Kuwait really had no opportunity to take cover before the makeshift operations center that they were in took a direct hit, according to a source, resulting in these U.S. KIAs. And so it’s interesting because Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, did describe a little bit about the location of these troops when they were hit. But take a listen to what he said yesterday. CNN then played a clip of Hegseth’s Monday comments: “We have incredible air defenders. Every once in a while, you might have one—unfortunately, we call it a squirter—that makes its way through. And in that particular case, it happened to hit a tactical operations center that was fortified. But these are powerful weapons.” “So we’re told that this was a suspected Iranian drone strike that was part of that initial wave of retaliatory strikes launched in the early hours of this conflict. But Hegseth also described this facility as fortified,” noted Cohen, concluding: We’re told the damage inflicted upon it, though, was pretty significant. The source saying that the facility remained on fire for hours after this strike happened. Also told that the walls were completely blown out and the inside totally blackened. So Donald Trump is warning of more U.S. casualties. Potentially, these Iranian drone strikes are expected to continue going forward. “All right, Zach Cohen, thank you. All right, coming up here in the Situation Room: President Trump now says he doesn’t know how long the war could last. And this morning, there are growing concerns about the strain this conflict… [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago
- GOP Senator Absolutely Excoriates Kristi Noem in Wild Exchange: DHS Is a ‘Disa...
Screenshot via C-SPAN. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) took a metaphorical flamethrower to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday, eviscerating her leadership as a “disaster,” furiously criticizing the handling of the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and even bringing up an anecdote from book memoir about shooting her dog. Tillis has been increasingly outspoken during President Donald Trump’s second term, especially after announcing he would not run for re-election to the Senate seat he has held since 2014. DHS has not escaped his scrutiny, as he previously called for Noem’s ouster in late January after Good and Pretti were shot in Minneapolis by an ICE agent and two Border Patrol agents, respectively. In 2024, chatter about Noem possibly becoming Trump’s vice presidential pick exploded after the release of her memoir included her admission that she had shot and killed a puppy named Cricket after deeming her “untrainable” and “less than worthless” — and then a goat shortly thereafter. Nonetheless, after Trump won the election, he tapped her to head DHS instead. South Park viciously satirized Noem over the incident in an episode last summer showing her as a serial killer of puppies leading a squadron of unqualified and inexperienced ICE agents to tackle and detain anyone who appeared Hispanic. During Tuesday’s agency oversight hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tillis unleashed years of criticism upon Noem, frequently raising his voice in fury and frustration as he explained that he had opposed a lot of the Biden administration’s immigration policies, but what was happening under Noem also represented a failure. Tillis said he was “disappointed” in Noem because ICE was wasting “limited resources” by not going after the serious criminals. “ICE can’t be everywhere at once,” he said, but the agents were still prioritizing “running numbers that [White House senior adviser] Stephen Miller wants out of the White House.” “We just want numbers!” Tillis shouted as he waved his hands angrily. “A thousand a day! Six thousand a day! Nine thousand a day! Because numbers matter, right? No, they don’t matter! Quality matters! Not quantity, quality! And what we’ve seen is a disaster under your leadership, Ms. Noem! A disaster!” “What we’ve seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American citizens,” he continued, lambasting “the culture that’s being created here, with Stephen Miller aiding and abetting.” Tillis sharply criticized how Trump administration officials,… [TheTopNews] Read More.51 mins ago - ‘How Dare You!’ Elisabeth Hasselbeck Torches Megyn Kelly for Saying US Soldi...Elisabeth Hasselbeck ripped Megyn Kelly on Tuesday for saying she believed American troops died “for Iran or for Israel” rather than the United States during her critique of Operation Epic Fury a day earlier. Hasselbeck went off on Kelly during an appearance on The View, the ABC show she co-hosted from 2003 to 2013. “How dare you, Megyn Kelly. How dare you tell a military person who has sacrificed their lives for our nation in our uniform,” Hasselbeck said. “When they are sacrificing their lives in our uniform, how dare you tell them or their families or our nation what they died for.” Joy Behar jumped in and joked Hasselbeck better “be careful” because Kelly will likely fire back at her. “I’m not afraid of her,” Hasselbeck said, drawing a few chuckles from the crowd. Her comments come a day after Kelly questioned the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that eliminated Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei last weekend. Four American soldiers died in the operation by the time Kelly shared her take on Monday — and that figure had risen to six service members by Tuesday afternoon. “No one should have to die for a foreign country. I don’t think those service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel,” Kelly said on her program. “No one is crying that the ayatollah is dead, but our government’s job is not to look out for Iran or Israel. It’s to look out for us.” .@megynkelly: "No one should have to die for a foreign country. I don't think those service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel… No one is crying that the Ayatollah is dead, but our government's job is not to look out for Iran or Israel.… pic.twitter.com/oj50QBYjfh — The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) March 3, 2026 Other prominent pundits like Tucker Carlson made similar arguments on Monday. Carlson said the war against Iran was being “waged” strictly on behalf of Israel and called the strikes “absolutely disgusting and evil.” President Donald Trump ripped Carlson and Megyn Kelly a few hours later, saying Carlson’s comments had “no impact” on what he does while also suggesting Kelly should “study her history book a little bit.” Trump on Tuesday denied Israel “forced” the United States into attacking Iran when asked about it by ABC’s Rachel Scott. “If… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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