Why do so many Americans distrust the Washington Post? “Pro-Iran propaganda network gains traction with posts about Epstein” offers a tankerload of clues.

Social media is overflowing with bogus claims and A.I. videos related to the Iran War.   Prudent folks are already wary about any wild-eyed claims of total victory or glorious destruction they see online.  But can political shysters exploit the war to vaccinate President Trump against his biggest scandal?

Long before Trump partnered with Israel to attack Tehran, Democrats, libertarians, and even decent Americans warned that Trump would bomb Iran again to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile scandal.  Most American voters believe that “Trump launched the war on Iran at least in part to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,” according to a new poll by DropSite News. Fifty-two percent of voters agreed with that statement, while 40% disagreed.

But according to the Washington Post, anyone who still complains about the Epstein scandal is propelling Iranian propaganda. Early in the Post article, the Post flourishes nuggets of wisdom from a certified Washington expert:  “There is a lot of Epstein-related content being pushed out to draw eyeballs… You come for the Epstein content, and you stay for the propaganda.” That quote is from Bret Schafer, who the Post identifies as a research director “at the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)”.

The Post neglected to mention that nonprofit institute is bankrolled by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. State Department.  If you can’t trust Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio to protect America from propaganda, who can you trust?

Touting a federally-funded entity as “independent” doesn’t count as propaganda........

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