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DAN GAINOR: As troops face danger abroad, media wage war on Trump at home

Everywhere the media went this week, the goal was to include two names in the headlines together: Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

By Dan Gainor Fox News

Published March 7, 2026 7:00am EST

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America is in the midst of kicking the snot out of an enemy that has dominated Middle East headlines for nearly 50 years. Naturally, some in the press are targeting… President Donald Trump with ridiculous new allegations buried in the depths of the Epstein files. Why? Because journalists still believe they can drag Trump through the mud, even in the middle of a war, and win elections for the D team.

If this sounds familiar, it sure as heck should. This has been the media strategy since Trump first decided to campaign as a Republican and ruin the left’s plans for global domination. The press has run with every phony claim it could find: the Russian collusion allegations, "mostly peaceful" riots, and claims that the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% fake. Remember this Politico headline from Oct. 19, 2020, just in time to influence the presidential election? "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."

Now we know the laptop was real and full of scandalous information about President Biden and his family — which is why the truth was buried under a mountain of lies from Trump haters and the journalists who love them. They were protecting their guy — "the Big........

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