A journalist or newsperson knows better than to make absolute, broad, sweeping statements about something they didn’t know about or that was easily disprovable; they would hedge on the existence of an edge case that could embarrass them. But that wasn’t the case with Whoopi Goldberg of “The View,” the moderator for what ABC has claimed to the FCC is a “bona fide news program.” According to Goldberg this week, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “never had algae before” President Trump’s renovations, and “nobody” wants voter ID laws.
Amid the liberal media’s obsession with the Reflecting Pool earlier in the week, “The View” took a big gulp from that watering hole. Goldberg’s hyperbole even got support from a gullible audience member:
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GOLDBERG: Look this. [Points to screen showing workers in the reflecting pool] I mean, they look like they are fishing in the reflecting pool. They&#8217;re trying to get – they&#8217;re trying to get the algae out. This thing never had algae before!
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Obviously, that was patently false. Even the anti-Trump journalists at <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-reflecting-pool-is-about-to-be-drained-again-heres-what-to-know">PBS were able to admit</a> that algae are naturally occurring and Trump’s renovations didn’t play a role. We also know the National Park Service has used hydrogen peroxide to kill algae blooms since 2021, when they switched away from chlorine.
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ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump was the one who vandalized the reflecting pool and that he&#8217;s going to go to prison for 10 years. 
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Goldberg beclowned herself later in the week when proclaiming that no one wanted voter ID laws:
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It doesn&#8217;t have the votes. So, he&#8217;s trying to push to, and do all kinds of stuff. It just — It&#8217;s ridiculous. It&#8217;s — The bill that would force people to have I.D. when they come to vote, and nobody wants it.
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It’s impossible to make the claim “nobody” wants voter ID when poll after poll has shown over 80% bipartisan support for the measure. That’s more than what’s needed for a supermajority vote.
Despite supposedly being a “bona fide news program” under the ABC News umbrella, Goldberg was ignorant of the fact that even her own network gave credence to the fact that it was a popular policy.  “An August 2025 Pew Research Center study found that 83% of the more than 3,500 people surveyed are in favor of requiring voters to show government-issued photo ID at the polls,” <a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/fact-check-trump-save-america-act-amid-push/story?id=130505183">ABC wrote about the Pew Research Center poll</a>.
That’s not to mention that a majority of states (36) already require voters to present ID.
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Nothing about “The View” is a “bona fide news program.” <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1896964078590984451">Goldberg has been very vocal</a> about how their role is to push Democratic Party messaging and anti-Trump fearmongering to the daytime TV audience. She’s even gotten into arguments about it in defense of their work.
A “bona fide news program” is supposed to share facts and tell its audience the truth. As shown here, “The View” does neither. That’s why the <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/06/23/mrc-leads-charge-strip-view-bona-fide-news-status">Media Research Center is leading the charge</a> to strip “The View” of that status.
“While The View may once have qualified for an exemption, the evidence shows that it has for years operated for political purposes and is therefore not entitled to an exemption from the law. The MRC has the documentation to demonstrate that “The View” is a partisan political operation that advocates for Democrats and their party, against President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, and for the political priorities of the left,” MRC President David Bozell wrote in <a href="https://cdn.newsbusters.org/blog_attachment/THE%20VIEW%20Ex%20Parte.pdf-1781899751546.pdf">a public comment filing to the FCC</a>.
The MRC also provided the FCC with “2,473 separate pieces of evidence documenting The View’s pervasive bias and, at times, willful electioneering as exhibits to this comment.”
ABC couldn’t even get the facts right when trying to muster supporters to submit public comments. On June 22, they told viewers they had until July 6 to submit a comment. In actuality, public comment ended that day at the close of business. Only reply comments were allowed to be submitted by July 6.
Despite their own incompetence, ABC and “The View” will likely cry foul if the FCC ignores the comments filed after the deadline.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.

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Hany Farid has declared that artificial intelligence image generation has reached a point where it can fool even the world’s greatest experts, including himself.
Farid is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the senior faculty adviser for the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. He is widely considered to be the world’s leader in digital forensics and image analysis. But according to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-deepfake-hany-farid.html">report</a> from The New York Times, Farid is struggling to pick up on some AI-generated content.  
Farid has noticed that AI has improved dramatically at mimicking real shadows, projectile trajectories, plant life, human faces, and sound, removing many of the clues that digital forensics experts relied on to detect deepfakes.
“I don’t trust anything. Every image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in my head, trying to figure out what I’m looking at. It’s over,” Farid said. “Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.”
Farid has collaborated with Microsoft to <a href="https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2020/hany-farid-leads-microsoft-project-detect-child-sex-predators">create</a> PhotoDNA, software used by many major tech firms to detect child sexual abuse material. Additionally, Farid worked with the U.S. military to create scanning software to detect deepfake videos before the 2020 election, according to an article originally published in The Los Angeles Times.
Farid told The New York Times that he is frustrated with how Big Tech is rapidly developing AI with no concern for the repercussions and hopes to retire from the scene and move to a farm in Vermont. 

“I can’t stand this place anymore,” Farid said. “These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.”
According to cybersecurity firm DeepStrike, deepfake files have <a href="https://deepstrike.io/blog/deepfake-statistics-2025">increased</a> dramatically from 500,000 in 2023 to 8 million in 2025, coinciding with a 3,000% increase in fraud attempts worldwide. 

Now that human detection systems are failing, experts are fighting fire with fire by using AI to combat AI deepfakes, such as the AI-powered <a href="https://zinc.cse.buffalo.edu/ubmdfl/deep-o-meter/">Deepfake-O-Meter</a> and Farid’s own company, <a href="https://www.getrealsecurity.com/teams/labs/pr-hany-farid">GetReal Security</a>.
Additionally, experts are advocating for new standards for digital photography to make it easier to determine a photo’s authenticity. 
For example, the Content Credentials movement is <a href="https://contentcredentials.org/">advocating</a> for a pin to accompany digital photos that will allow viewers to “determine the method of creation” for a photo “and see a record of editing history.”
Copyleaks, an AI content-detection platform, has <a href="https://copyleaks.com/blog/5-most-common-types-of-video-deepfake-scams">detailed</a> five major emerging deepfake scams potentially jeopardizing Americans&#8217; well-being.
Celebrity scams utilize deepfakes of famous people to promote products, while catfishing scams involve deepfaking a beautiful person to manipulate lovers into giving money or personal information. 
Fake security footage is being used to prosecute innocent people, and scammers are using AI voice changers to make people believe a loved one has an emergency and is asking for help. 
In the political realm, scammers are making fake videos of political candidates making controversial claims they never actually made.

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When I saw the news that Vice President JD Vance would be appearing on “The View,” my concern as someone who works every day with right-of-center political voices was not about how he would perform. It was genuine confusion over why conservatives continue handing ratings, relevance, and credibility to the very institutions that have spent years demonizing them.
Nobody seriously doubts that JD Vance can handle “The View.” There may not be a Republican politician in America today better equipped for exactly that environment. Vance is quick, disciplined, and uniquely skilled at walking into hostile interviews without allowing himself to be defined by the hostility.
That ability is a large part of why many conservatives came to understand what Donald Trump saw in Vance. Plenty of Republicans questioned whether it was the right choice. The issue was not that Vance lacked intelligence or talent. The concern was that Trump had chosen someone who immediately found himself at the center of a damaging political controversy: the “childless cat lady” comments.
These comments became exactly the kind of media storm campaigns dread. Democrats saw an opening, critics argued they would alienate women voters, and many wondered whether Trump had created an unnecessary vulnerability for himself.
It was not until Vance sat across from Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” in August 2024 that Trump’s confidence in Vance started to make sense. Vance did not dodge questions about his “cat lady” comments, nor did he retreat into meaningless consultant language. He pushed back where he disagreed and explained his broader argument, shifting the conversation toward families, affordability, and the pressures Americans face in building their lives.
Whether you support him or not, it has become impossible to ignore: JD Vance is an exceptionally gifted communicator. He can debate, think on his feet, and challenge people without appearing rattled. He has the rare political skill of walking directly into difficult conversations and coming out stronger.
That is why my concern with his appearance on “The View” has nothing to do with whether he will succeed. He almost certainly will. The issue is what happens when he does.
A strong performance from Vance means viral clips, massive attention, and renewed relevance for the very platform conservatives argue has spent years treating them with contempt.
This is not a random Republican commentator looking for exposure. This is the vice president of the United States and one of the most important figures in the future of the Republican Party. Whether or not he eventually runs for president, Vance is clearly positioned as one of the leading figures who could carry Trump’s political movement into its next chapter.
Access to someone like that has value, and “The View” is about to receive all the benefits that come with it.
The ratings will come. Clips will spread across every social media platform. Conservatives will celebrate Vance pushing back. Liberals will celebrate the hosts challenging him. Everyone will argue for days, and “The View” will have gotten exactly what it wanted: attention and relevance.
The question is why conservatives keep handing it to them.
For years, Republicans have argued that the problem with much of legacy media is not simply disagreement. Debate is necessary. Conservatives should sit down with people who see the world differently.
The problem is the contempt.
Shows like “The View” do not merely criticize Republican policies. They routinely portray Trump and his supporters as something darker than political opponents. Conservatives are labeled hateful, racist, dangerous, and morally defective. The disagreement is no longer simply about competing visions for the country. It has become a judgment about the character of the people who hold those views.
That rhetoric has consequences. America is living through an era of extraordinary political hostility. There have been multiple attempts on President Trump’s life. Political violence and dehumanization are no longer abstract concerns; they are realities.
Yet the institutions that contribute to this culture rarely have any incentive to change. They get to continue the same behavior and still receive access to the most important figures in the movement they spend their days attacking.
Joy Behar reinforced this disconnect last year when she suggested Republicans were not appearing on “The View” because they were afraid to face tough questions. The response from conservatives was immediate. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, Riley Gaines, Matt Walsh, Jennifer Sey, and others pushed back with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservatives-come-receipts-after-the-view-claims-theyre-afraid-come-show">receipts</a> showing a very different reality: they were not avoiding the show. They had been trying to get on it.
As a publicist who works primarily with right-of-center personalities, I can attest to the falsehood of Behar’s excuses firsthand. Conservatives are not afraid of “The View.” In fact, many actively seek opportunities to sit across from people who disagree with them and make their case to audiences outside the conservative bubble.
Conservatives are eager to enter those hostile rooms. But they are continually blocked from entering them at all.
But now, “The View” gets JD Vance. Not because the show has changed. Not because the conversation has improved. And not because there has been some meaningful effort to understand the voters the hosts have spent years mocking.
They get him because everyone knows it will make great television.
But what happens after the cameras turn off?
The hosts of “The View” are unlikely to walk away reconsidering how they talk about conservatives. The next day, the same conversations will continue. The same voters will be reduced to the same stereotypes. The same political divide everyone claims to worry about will remain exactly where it was.
And “The View” will have gotten everything it wanted.
It will have received the ratings, attention, and cultural relevance that come with hosting one of the most important figures in the Republican Party. And it will have received all of that without changing anything about how it covers conservatives.
That is the broken incentive structure.
If institutions can spend years demonizing conservatives and still receive access to the movement’s most influential voices whenever they want a viral moment, why would they ever change?
JD Vance has already proven he can walk into hostile rooms and win. The question now is whether conservatives should keep rewarding those rooms simply because they know how to win inside them.
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Vanessa Santos is a political communications specialist and the president and CEO of Renegade DC.

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Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who many leftists see as the future of the Democratic party, on Wednesday made a scathing statement on the floor of the House naming members of the GOP who had received money from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly: Mitt Romney. The NRCC. Lee Zeldin. George Bush. McCain-Palin. &#8230; Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear: If this is the standard that we gonna make just know we gonna expose it all and just know that the FEC filings they are available for everybody to review,” she hyperventilated.
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Crockett: Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly, Mitt Romney. The NRCC. Lee Zeldin. George Bush. McCain-Palin. <a href="https://t.co/CdwuSacQpb">pic.twitter.com/CdwuSacQpb</a>
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Oops. Wrong Jeffrey Epstein.
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Yes Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine.
NO 👏 FREAKIN 👏 RELATION 👏 YOU 👏 GENIUS!!! <a href="https://t.co/gYQlcUd2we">https://t.co/gYQlcUd2we</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeeMZeldin/status/1990993148244312175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Jeffrey Epstein died on August, 10 2019. The donations from a DIFFERENT Jeffrey Epstein were made over the next year: 🤨 <a href="https://t.co/w8vDKhS4on">pic.twitter.com/w8vDKhS4on</a>
&mdash; Marla Hohner (@marlahohner) <a href="https://twitter.com/marlahohner/status/1991158361786581499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Oof. <a href="https://twitter.com/JasmineForUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JasmineForUS</a> is disastrously wrong here. None of these donors are *the* Jeffrey Epstein. Several are from the same Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the donations to Lee Zeldin are from after *the* Epstein killed himself. <a href="https://t.co/RES7GyTQMy">https://t.co/RES7GyTQMy</a> <a href="https://t.co/OSuTywr3D7">pic.twitter.com/OSuTywr3D7</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1990996259721588838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“From 1989 up until 2003, Epstein donated more than $139,000 to Democratic federal candidates and committees and over $18,000 to Republican candidates and groups, according to data from OpenSecrets,” Open Secrets <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/billionaire-sex-offender-epstein-gave-heavily/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reported</a> in 2018.
Crockett’s attacks on the GOP have included moments such as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-agrees-during-town-hall-republicans-want-poor-people-die">this one</a> from last June, when former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone said at a town hall, “Republicans want poor people to die as quickly as humanly possible,” prompting Crockett to reply, “I agree. I don&#8217;t think that is a glitch, but that&#8217;s actually part of the design.”
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Last March, Crockett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crockett-slammed-over-bogus-statement-explaining-her-mockery-of-governors-physical-disability?utm_source=chatgpt.com">infamously called</a> Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott — who has been confined to a wheelchair since he was permanently disabled in his 20s when a tree fell on him — “Governor Hot Wheels.”
Speaking at a Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-jasmine-crockett-faces-censure-push-for-governor-hot-wheels-taunt">event</a> in Los Angeles, Crockett mocked Abbott: “Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, C’mon now.”
“And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-a** mess, honey,” she continued.
People online quickly pointed out that her later claim that she was not talking about Abbott’s disability was likely false, given that she had recently engaged with content from a critic of Abbott that specifically mentioned his wheelchair.
The post in question showed Abbott at the White House in his wheelchair, attending an event where the president signed an executive order starting the dismantlement of the Department of Education.
“Rolling up to the White House to cheer on the president destroying the agency that makes sure kids in wheelchairs have equal access to education is wild,” the post said. Crockett reposted and “liked” the post, according to screenshots shared by the original poster.

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Jasmine Crockett Tries To Drop A Bomb But Trips Over The Wrong Jeffrey Epstein

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According to the BBC, President Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/10/britain-bbc-crisis-trump-panorama/8fe0a43a-be1e-11f0-8eee-a78486b4c797_story.html">sent a letter</a> to the news outlet threatening legal action after the network aired an edited clip of Trump’s January 6, 2021, remarks in a documentary that was presented out of context.
BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness have both <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vn25d5dq7o">stepped down</a> following revelations that the documentary misled viewers by deceptively editing Trump’s speech.
According to <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-reveals-bias-donald-trump/">The Telegraph</a>, a leaked internal BBC memo revealed that the program spliced together separate portions of Trump’s remarks, making it appear he explicitly encouraged chaos at the Capitol. The memo also reportedly warned of “systemic problems” of bias within the BBC&#8217;s coverage, including its Arabic service’s reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict.
The fallout was immediate. Davie, who had served as director general for five years, admitted, “There have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.” Turness, who ran the BBC’s News and Current Affairs division, followed suit, saying that the documentary controversy had “reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC &#8230; The buck stops with me.”
The edited clip showed Trump saying, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”
In reality, Trump stated, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.” More than <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial">8400 words later</a>, he declared, “Most people would stand there at 9 o&#8217;clock in the evening and say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life. But I said something&#8217;s wrong here, something is really wrong, can have happened. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don&#8217;t fight like hell, you&#8217;re not going to have a country anymore.”
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BBC Chair Samir Shah has since apologized, admitting the broadcast represented an “error of judgment.” But critics argue the damage is already done, pointing to years of mounting accusations that the BBC’s news division has drifted leftward.

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Two BBC executives announced their resignations on Sunday after controversy erupted around the U.K. public broadcaster over its portrayal of President Donald Trump in a documentary on the January 6 Capitol riot.
BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness announced their resignations less than a week after an internal BBC memo surfaced, saying a documentary on the events of January 6, 2021, painted Trump dishonestly. The documentary removed key context from Trump’s rally speech that day, falsely portraying Trump as having encouraged rioting at the Capitol.
“Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,” Davie said in a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k02vr1my2o">statement</a>. “While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision. Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.”
Turness released her own statement, saying that the controversy around the BBC Panorama, which created the documentary, “has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC.”
“In public life leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down,” she said, adding in defense of the BBC, “[w]hile mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.”
The documentary at the center of the departures is titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” and it first aired a week before the 2024 presidential election.
Last week, the contents of an internal memo written by former outside editorial standards adviser Michael Prescott were leaked and published in <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-reveals-bias-donald-trump/">The Telegraph</a>.
The documentary “completely misled” viewers, the memo said. It had included Trump telling his supporters to “fight like hell” while omitting that he had encouraged rally-goers in Washington, D.C., that day to protest “peacefully and patriotically.”
The report in The Telegraph sparked a response from Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who suggested that the BBC is “FAKE NEWS.”
“The FAKE NEWS ‘reporters’ in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s*** as the ones here in America!!!!” Trump Jr. <a href="https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1985415134903161307">posted</a> on X after the contents of the BBC memo were published.
The memo has motivated backlash in the U.K. from the country’s opposition Conservative Party.
“These are extremely concerning revelations that could seriously undermine the brand and reputation of the BBC,” Nigel Huddleston, the shadow culture secretary, told The Telegraph. “The BBC license fee is justified on the basis of impartiality and trust. There can be no justification for this kind of deliberate manipulation and the spreading of misinformation.”

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BBC Execs Resign As UK Broadcaster Roiled Over Doctored Trump Footage In J6 Documentary

After he reportedly made the scurrilous claim that first lady Melania Trump had been introduced to her husband, Donald, by the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, her legal team sent Democratic strategist James Carville a message, prompting a public apology.
On the Politics War Room podcast hosted by Carville, in a recent discussion with leftist writer Judd Legum, Carville made the accusation, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14980601/melania-trump-james-carville-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein.html">The Daily Mail</a>. A video from the podcast was released titled “The Epstein Connection: Trump and Melania.”
But after the missive from Melania’s lawyer, Carville issued this statement: “In last week’s podcast episode, we spoke with Judd Legum. After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump’s lawyer. He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the First Lady.”
“We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode,” the message continued. “I also take back these statements and apologize.” The video was deleted
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In late July, The Daily Beast removed an article that contended a modeling agent connected to Epstein introduced the first lady to her husband.
“The article, which detailed claims made by author Michael Wolff on a Daily Beast podcast, was replaced with an editor’s note apologizing ‘for any confusion’ after the first lady’s lawyers contacted the lefty outlet,” The New York Post <a href="applewebdata://99A5E016-B396-48AA-9D31-2AF1EB6DEB04/v">reported</a>.
“She’s introduced by a model agent, both of whom Trump and Epstein are involved with. She’s introduced to Trump that way,” Wolff alleged. “Epstein knows her well.”
“After this story was published, The Beast received a letter from First Lady Melania Trump’s attorney challenging the headline and framing of the article. After reviewing the matter, the Beast has taken down the article and apologizes for any confusion or misunderstanding,” he outlet stated.
In her 2024 memoir, Melania stated that she met Trump in September 1998 at a Fashion Week party at the Kit Kat Klub in New York City, writing, “I saw my friend wave at someone behind me. When I turned around, I noticed a man and an attractive blonde woman approaching us,” Melania wrote. “‘Hi. I’m Donald Trump,’ the man said when he reached my table.”

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Melania Trump Puts Dem Strategist In His Place After Scurrilous Epstein Smear

James Carville

Melania Trump

On Tuesday, after it was reported that the Gaza child who was featured in numerous publications as a poster child for malnutrition in Gaza actually suffered from other severe health problems, a fact that the legacy media — including The New York Times— did not see fit to report, The New York Times suddenly issued an editor’s note apprising their audience of the fact.
Media outlets employed the photo of an emaciated 20-month-old Gaza child to substantiate claims that Israel is intentionally starving residents of the Hamas-controlled zone. But the legacy media never reported that the child suffers from numerous medical problems — nor that his three-year-old brother looks healthy with no signs of malnutrition, <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">according</a> to an investigation.
“Within hours, almost every major outlet was using the image to tell the same story,” investigative reporter David Collier <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">noted</a>. “<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-faces-mass-starvation-with-supplies-totally-depleted-aid-agencies-warn-13400462">Sky News</a>, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/world/photos-starvation-in-gaza-intl-cnnphotos/">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/starvation-in-gaza-is-destroying-communities-and-will-leave-generational-scars">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14939703/Reduced-skin-bones-Gaza-famine-hell-Horrifying-picture-shows-starving-child-plastic-bag-nappy-lying-exhausted-arms-desperate-mother.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html">New York Times</a>, and The <a href="https://archive.ph/kfN5n">Times (UK)</a> – they all ran with it, reinforcing the message: Gaza is gripped by mass starvation.”
“Except this image proves none of it,” he said. “Wider and unpublished pictures show Mohammed’s healthy brother Joud, who was born on 18 April 2022 and is 3 years old. Mohammed was born on 23 December 2023, just two months after October 7. What we can see from the pictures is that both Mohammed’s mother and his older brother, look healthy and are not suffering from any type of starvation that would be necessary to cause the thinness suffered by Mohammed.”
“This is visible in multiple images we have in our possession,” Collier continued. “The published images in all the various news broadcasts and publications have either been deliberately cropped to remove the image of the healthy brother, blurred him into obscurity, or the journalists have only chosen to use photos in which the brother is not visible at all.”
“We have appended an Editors&#8217; Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition,” the Times said in its statement. “After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems.”
“Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war,” the Times insisted.
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We have appended an Editors&#39; Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. <a href="https://t.co/KGxP3b3Q2B">pic.twitter.com/KGxP3b3Q2B</a>
&mdash; NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYTimesPR/status/1950311365756817690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Social media buried the Times:
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief Josh Kraushaar snapped.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. <a href="https://t.co/NUsrbix5d3">https://t.co/NUsrbix5d3</a>
&mdash; Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1950321101395153342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach. The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere. You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper,” physicist Shaun Maguire fired at the Times.
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Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach
The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere
You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper
&mdash; Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1950315654252548297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“You know damn well how insufficient this correction is,” Jews Fight Back wrote on X.
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You know damn well how insufficient this correction is.
&mdash; Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) <a href="https://twitter.com/JewsFightBack/status/1950328571941310789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers,” attorney Andrew Laufer stated.
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Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers.
&mdash; Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/lauferlaw/status/1950329815543992819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages,” attorney Marina Medvin declared.
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Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages.
&mdash; Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1950330544052720093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NYT Admits It Used Misleading Photo Of ‘Starving’ Gaza Child. Critics Say It’s Too Little, Too Late.

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New York Times

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The White House roundly rejected a Wednesday morning report from The Washington Post claiming that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration was planning to send a number of illegal aliens to the infamous prison at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/10/trump-guantanamo-deportations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> — which cited unnamed &#8220;U.S. officials familiar with the matter&#8221; — as &#8220;Fake News,&#8221; and declared that it was &#8220;not happening.&#8221;
&#8220;This story is Fake News. Not happening,&#8221; she said.
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This story is Fake News. Not happening. <a href="https://t.co/cxzPLkql0S">https://t.co/cxzPLkql0S</a>
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1932759627571060790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to The Washington Post&#8217;s report, the White House is &#8220;preparing to send thousands of foreigners to the infamous detention facility, including people from Britain, France and Italy, with no intent to notify their home governments.&#8221;
Citing anonymous officials — and claiming those officials provided the outlet with documents — the report said that those who could potentially be sent to Guantanamo Bay included a number from Haiti but also included &#8220;hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine.&#8221;
The Post claimed that the officials had insisted on remaining anonymous &#8220;because the matter is considered highly sensitive.&#8221;
Some of the alleged plans outlined by The Post included preparations for medical screenings for up to 9,000 people – and the piece was careful to hedge by noting that the plans were &#8220;subject to change.&#8221; The Post attributed the push to move illegals to Guantanamo Bay to &#8220;immigration hard-liners&#8221; within the Trump administration who were pressuring Trump to ramp up deportations.
Leavitt was not the only one to call out The Post&#8217;s assertions. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell added, &#8220;This is [100%] Fake News.&#8221;
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This is 💯 Fake News. <a href="https://t.co/3sRNfCH0GD">https://t.co/3sRNfCH0GD</a>
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1932760299888578853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But others, like Marc Thiessen, who served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, noted that the practice was not exactly unprecedented. &#8220;The Clinton administration housed migrants at Gitmo long before the war on terror,&#8221; he said.
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The Clinton administration housed migrants at Gitmo long before the war on terror. <a href="https://t.co/UpNfTK49BJ">https://t.co/UpNfTK49BJ</a>
— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcthiessen/status/1932565230330261888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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White House Says It’s Not Sending Illegals To Guantanamo: ‘100% Fake News’

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Trump’s First 100 Days: A Study In ‘Fake News,’ Hoaxes, And Misleading Headlines

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The White House said on Monday that reports claiming President Donald Trump was moving toward a 90-day pause on tariffs are &#8220;wrong.&#8221;
After National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discussed Trump&#8217;s tariffs during an interview on Fox News, reports falsely stated that Hassett revealed the president was considering a pause on all tariffs except those imposed on China. The claim was spread by numerous X accounts with large followings and was also discussed on <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1909250858044313876" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>, sparking a short-lived spike in the stock market on Monday morning.
A White House official told Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan that reports of a tariff pause are fake news.
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White House official tells me this is fake news. Tweet has also been deleted: <a href="https://t.co/Y9K0MEVj1X">pic.twitter.com/Y9K0MEVj1X</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1909256397306331146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Wrong. Not only did Director Hassett not say this (clip below), @POTUS has been clear — &#8216;it all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!'&#8221; the White House&#8217;s Rapid Response X account stated.
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Wrong. Not only did Director Hassett not say this (clip below), <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> has been clear — &quot;it all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3Kvt8AScAZ">https://t.co/3Kvt8AScAZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/JHucHjZm3S">pic.twitter.com/JHucHjZm3S</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1909254335822692548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Reports of a tariff pause began swirling after billionaire hedge fund manager and Trump backer Bill Ackman urged the president &#8220;to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate,&#8221; Ackman <a href="https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1908992002366292286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X.
When asked about Ackman&#8217;s comments and a possible pause on tariffs during his interview on &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371175485112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox &amp; Friends</a>,&#8221; Hassett replied, &#8220;The president is going to decide what the president is going to decide.&#8221;
&#8220;There are more than 50 countries in negotiation with the president,&#8221; Hassett added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got the prime minister of Israel coming today. We&#8217;ve had a reach-out overnight from Taiwan, but I would urge everyone, especially Bill, to ease off the rhetoric a little bit. &#8230; The idea that it&#8217;s going to be a nuclear winter or something like that is completely irresponsible rhetoric.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114296801411259400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social Monday morning, Trump again asked Americans to be patient as his tariffs on nearly every country in the world go into effect.
&#8220;The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!),&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!&#8221;

White House Shoots Down Reports Claiming Trump Considering Tariff Pause

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A rapid response team created by the Democratic National Committee shared a fake video of Donald Trump Jr. purportedly saying the U.S. &#8220;should have been sending weapons to Russia,&#8221; not Ukraine.
FactPostNews posted the video of Trump Jr. speaking with someone who prompted, “But they forget that Ukraine isn’t the kind of country you go all in on — this is ridiculous,” Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/viral-video-of-don-jr-arguing-america-should-have-been-sending-weapons-to-russia-is-fake/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding, “The alleged comments went viral on social media, and were promoted by a number of prominent accounts including <a href="https://archive.ph/keItD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FactPost</a>, which is run by the Democratic National Committee.”
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The Democratic National Committee shared a fake clip of Donald Trump Jr. saying the US should have sent weapons to Russia, not Ukraine. <a href="https://t.co/pJQPTV8hwZ">https://t.co/pJQPTV8hwZ</a>
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The video reportedly shows Trump Jr. responding, “I honestly can’t imagine anyone in their right mind picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option. I mean, just think about it: Massive nuclear power loaded with natural resources everyone needs, literally the biggest country on the planet. And ha ha, there’s Ukraine, which has Chernobyl, and some radiation-proof dogs. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is definitely the ally we need. Let’s dump all our money into them.’ Honestly, if anything, the U.S. should have been sending weapons to Russia.”
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I deleted a post with a clip of Don Jr talking abt Russia bc I&#39;m having a hard time tracking down the source of it. It&#39;s circulating on a number of big X accounts, but when I scrolled through the podcast from which it purportedly came, I couldn&#39;t find original soundbite. Will…
&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1894849661422178366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Democratic National Committee <a href="https://democrats.org/news/icymi-dnc-launches-new-factpost-digital-accounts-economic-messaging-to-take-on-trumps-billionaire-cabinet-as-confirmation-hearings-kick-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the formation of FactPostNews in mid-January, heading the announcement, “DNC Launches New FactPost Digital Accounts, Economic Messaging to Take on Trump’s ‘Billionaire Cabinet’ as Confirmation Hearings Kick Off.” In the announcement, the DNC hilariously trumpeted the “wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team” as they stated:
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The Democratic National Committee is tapping veterans of the wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team for a new rapid response push ahead of Donald Trump’s return to office. … The new rapid response @FactPostNews initiative will try to combat online misinformation and respond to Trump administration actions by pushing out memes, videos and graphics. … The DNC is also teeing up fresh economic attacks on Trump as he takes office, per a memo obtained by Axios. &#8230; @FactPostNews will start on X, Threads, and Bluesky and will eventually expand to TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.
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