The rope is almost too big. Stacking in the case of Epstein, Donald Trump has dedicated his speeches to virulent attacks against former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), guilty of “betrayal” for a few days.
On Friday, the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a report that accused the guardianship figure of the democratic field and his entourage of having established a “conspiracy” about the accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, which led Donald Trump to the White House.
Anger of the “Maga” camp
The Republican has always rejected the conclusions of American intelligence services, according to which Moscow worked well to promote his first choice. But their attacks have redoubled an ardor in recent days, in what seems an attempt to redirect the frustration of their followers and the attention of the media to Barack Obama.
During the last two weeks, the president has fought to get out of the networks in the Epstein matter. The latter recovered on July 7 when the Minister of Justice, after having cut off of breaking revelations, said he had discovered any list of multimillionaire customers and formalized the thesis of his suicide in prison. A Soufflé that falls and that awakens the anger of the ultra-triunfo movement “Maga” (makes the United States great again), convinced that elites have been protecting the main personalities related to the sexual criminal for years.
In this context, the attack launched in Barack Obama is a “counter-fogger to make us forget that it is bogged down in a controversy that, for the first time, it cannot leave,” confirms that the specialist in the United States Alexis Pichard, an associated researcher at the English speaking research center at the University of Paris Nanterre.
Trump changes subject
“This is what you should really talk about,” the Republican President told journalists, accusing the press and his opponents of taking him a “witch hunt.” An instruction that also happens in its own camp: “Obama has manipulated the elections (…) you should say it (to the journalists, the editor’s note) every time a question is inappropriate,” republican elected officials told elected officials.
For Donald Trump, throwing “stinky balls” against his opponents when he is put in difficulty is nothing new. It is even a strategy that applies daily, explains Alexis Pichard.
The old reality show shows The apprentice He is “an expert in domain of history and a master of deviation,” explains the author of Trump and the media (Editions VA, 2020).
To divert attention, the billionaire attacks the Democrats in particular, in particular his predecessor Joe Biden. With the revenge posts published in Rafale on his social network of truth, he had brought all the Democrats to all the evils of America, of the immigration crisis to inflation. Before his failure to stop the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump also hit that it is not “his” war but “Joe Biden’s war.”
“Flood the area with shit”
Among its favorite objectives are journalists, and more widely the media. After folding the ABC and CBS information channels, he now claims $ 10 billion of the Wall Street Journal after the revelations of the conservative newspaper on gravel letters directed by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. Pressures against the press that have accentuated since their return to the White House.
“He was previously happy with inverter journalists Twitter, but since his second term, he has become accustomed to continuing with the media in court,” said Alexis Pichard.
For the specialist in the United States, these diversion maneuvers are part of a broader media compressor roller strategy. “His former strategist of Steve Bannon advised him to flood the area with shit,” he remembers the researcher, that is, drowning the media in an avalanche of information and controversy to hide his own problems.
If this strategy has long confused its opponents, it seems to find its limits with the Epstein issue. “In addition to Fox News that hastened the charges against Obama, I am not sure that Donald Trump is deceiving many people,” said Alexis Pichard.
Revelations about the links between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein are increasing in the US media, and the controversy does not seem to leave.
Source: BFM TV
