For the past few weeks, MAGA media and conservative podcasters have been torn apart over President Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Anna Merlan, a senior reporter at Mother Jones, joins The Kicker to talk about right-wing media’s efforts to change the subject—and whether their audiences will go along with it.
Read more:
*Anna Merlan on what happened the last time Trump’s team tried to satisfy right-wing media’s hunger for Epstein news
*Merlan on how Trump has constructed a new state media machine at the White House
*Ben Mathis-Lilley in Slate on Steve Bannon’s not-so-hidden hand in the Epstein narrative
*Charlie Warzel on the “upside down” world of right-wing media supporting Trump (2017)
Hosted by Josh Hersh
Produced by Amanda Darrach
