By Jason Renard Walker 

It didn’t take Donald Trump long to figure out how to shift the media’s focus away from the Jeffrey Epstein files, and back onto the Democrats and the people who resist his authoritarian agenda. 

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t millions of people still talking about or engaging the matter, because there are. It means that the mainstream media, with its 24 hour worldwide platform, have removed it from the forefront. The millions of people still interested in Epstein are now force-fed a meritless DOJ investigation into Barrack Obama, and Trump’s militarized police state experiment in DC and Los Angeles. 

Part of the effort to shift attention away from Trump being questioned about the Epstein files, to unfounded events, came from his administration, who learned to coax the priority of mass media into running narratives that: 

1) can’t be verified 

2) are bogus on their face 

3) are of so-called national security interests, thus classified and unavailable for inspection or verification 

4) intentionally lack substance and draw debate 

This plight by Trump is not a con job that the media has fallen victim to. In many ways they and the Democrats are complicit. Local television news outlets like NBC, ABC and CBS have known for years that promises, facts and data Trump uses to push his agenda, often come back as truthful as his AI-generated arrest of Obama. Yet this same source, supposedly dedicated to reporting the truth and being the people’s watchdog, constantly toots their mics at him for another lie to feed the world. 

In reality mass media is a government-controlled entity, with a long-standing practice of conditioning the masses through trauma-based mind control. It’s one of the few institutions of the world that understands the more fearful a society becomes, the more susceptible they are to being controlled. 

With this understanding, the Press often features stories that are detracted and psych driven — such as the media replaying a horrific event, over and over again, as if the entire world is defined by the moment. Even if an ordeal happens to be exposed as a hoax, like ‘Balloon Boy’ or Haitians in Ohio eating people’s pets, the psychological trauma that many viewers experienced and their initial reactions, may never heal. 

Another example is how the media has gotten obsessed with exposing the conditions of Alligator Alcatraz, a pop-up ICE detention center in Florida. The facility is seen as ‘horrific’ because the air conditioning isn’t ideal, the plumbing is bad and detainees are forced to sleep on the floor in crowded, bug-infested, cages. 

These conditions the Democrats and the media are pretending to be shocked by, are not nearly as bad as they are in Texas, whose state prison system has been plagued since the late 1800s with: most facilities lacking air conditioning in the living areas, foul smelling drinking water, invasive vermin, understaffing, and abusive and corrupt employees. 

You’d think if the Democrats and the media were so concerned about these human rights violations, they’d double down that concern on incarcerated citizens who suffer far worse and are thrown back into society with PTSD. But this is not the case. Prisoners currently don’t fit the narrative, so their abuse won’t shock the conscience of the mainstream media until they do. 

Right now it’s about the partisan politics of public safety, mass deportations and terror — things designed to socially divide, limit our rights and consolidate the federal government’s power and authority over us. What they won’t admit is that the biggest threat to our freedom won’t come from terrorism. It will come from politicians, guided by media-induced fears of the public — which is a strong point of Trump’s: using Fox News to amplify falsities about the Democrats.

Fox News has absolutely no problem using round the clock coverage to convince its conservative and anti-working-class viewers that Trump is the only solution to fixing a country that he says Joe Biden left in shambles. Whatever the polls say a majority of the people dislike, their panelists, like botox junkie Laura Ingraham, will scramble to air past ‘smash N grab’ incidents from blue states that fit the narrative. Then replay the clip over and over, while she scapegoats the Democrat party. 

The deception in this reporting is that their naive viewers are being led to believe that what they are seeing is only problematic in blue states. Now federalizing the police forces and using the military to regain compliance of every blue state, through a hostile takeover, is easier and promoted as stopping crime. 

This in itself desensitizes their resistance to the federal government running up in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles with Marines and the National Guard. It desensitizes their belief the crimes being shown can’t happen to them because they are a Republican in a red state. It completely warps their understanding on the fact that a political affiliation doesn’t persuade or deter crime. 

The goal is to repress the people from city-to-city, while manipulating the most vulnerable. By giving these lies a platform, without providing context, the trusted media becomes complicit in this scheme that will eventually make its way into their city, if it’s not stopped as soon as it starts. 

First its the low hanging fruit i.e. Migrants, LGBTQ communities, Muslims, felons, low in come families and the homeless. Then its whatever’s left on the tree, and finally the tree itself. 

Another one of Trump’s tactics he tends to use mass media to assist him with is reverse empathy. Which is him tossing out absurd plans (like reopening Alcatraz) that are designed to provoke responses, and analyze the public’s perception of how he’s maneuvering. He then assesses as much feedback as he can get, and uses this information to guide himself through the gauntlet of public opinion. 

Under this belief Trump is not only using trickery to sow false hope into a gullible society, through the lens of a camera. He’s making historic decisions in opposition to most of his voters’ wishes, the constitution, congress and commonsense. It’s as if he’s taking the least popular ideas he can come up with and giving them praise, only because it’s unprecedented. 

One example is the red-carpet treatment he opportunistically gave Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, in hopes of buttering him up to make a cease-fire deal. He swore to the media that Putin was either going to agree to a cease-fire right then, or face heavy consequences. What actually happened is that Putin used the national spotlight for photo ops, to play victim, legitimize Russia as a super power and give himself credibility by suggesting had Trump (not Biden) been in office, Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine. This is obviously a bogus theatrical skit that Trump and Putin rehearsed during the backroom meeting. 

No deal was made, the ‘unprecedented’ summit was a nothing burger and Russia aimed their attacks at Ukrainian civilians the very next day, killing innocent people and children. We must also be aware that Ukraine may have been a patsy in softening Putin’s presence on U.S. soil, and other matters important only to Putin and Trump may have been discussed. 

One thing’s certain, Trump has his sights set on winning a Nobel Peace Prize. Any deal that stops the war in Gaza and Ukraine, before his term ends, is a deal to him. He’s putting a lot of his energy into getting credit for deescalating conflicts between other nations. But in contradiction, he can’t present a measure that Democrats and Republicans both agree on. 

Part of the glue that has held the MAGA base together is their cult-like devotion to Trump and conspiracy theories. The Epstein files debacle has left them confused, and his core principles on immigration and the economy are starting to lose their appeal with some of those that voted him in. Though he pretends he’s had the best first year of any president in U.S. history, he’s very self-aware that this is not the case, and is shamelessly using right-wing media and loyalists to promote lies and cover up his incompetence. At this juncture it is safe to say things are starting to slowly unravel. But not safe to say his tunnel visioned voters will ever lose their blinders and see him for who he really is. 

As a safety valve to protect his makeshift reputation, and the public’s perception of his flawed administration. He knows that the only way this can be done is if there are awards, accolades, a media and documentation that supports them. This is why winning the Nobel Peace Prize and Fox News is so important to him, why the use of AI in politics need to be banned, and why the mainstream media and academia need to stop caving in to his frivolous lawsuits and threats. 

How could a future society not argue a Nobel award winner, self professed ‘peace maker’ and two-term president is who we are seeing? When in fact records show it was the media, high-powered law firms and the universities that paid him to drop lawsuits. And neither had anything bad to say about him, before or after. 

Academics and historians of the world studying his terms hundreds of years later will be stuck with the task of debating whether Obama being arrested by the Secret Service really happened or if the image of 1500 insurrectionists storming the Capital on January 6 was artificially concocted by Trump’s nemesis, Biden. 

The insurrectionists were in fact pardoned, Trump has nailed millions from the media and universities he sued, and he has yet to admit defeat or any wrongdoing. In fact every chance he gets he calls Black media outlets and those reporting him in real time fake news, he references Democrats as Communists, Socialists and ‘radical left lunatics’. And he has the influence of millions of people that are using their platforms to promote the same thing. But in contradiction, very few have taken on the fight to make sure the real Trump will be inserted into history. 

While the people of today are witnesses, the people generations later will only have documented, audio and video records to go by. If racist slave-owners are being praised with their own holidays because of what’s documented, why won’t Trump be? 

There’s a good chance that he understands this and probably won’t be the president he wants us to believe he is until thousands of years later. Which brings the thought: is Trump simply another president ahead of his time? 

Jason Renard Walker 1532092 

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Jason Renard Walker is a prison journalist that has published articles and essays in various print and online media outlets since 2016. His work can be viewed at: www.jasonsprisonjournal.com You can also purchase his paperback book ‘Reports From Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture And Injustice Inside Texas Department Of Criminal Justice’ available on amazon.com