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Since a July 7 Justice Department memo declared an “exhaustive review” of the Jeffrey Epstein case found he died by suicide and there was no evidence of a “client list,” ABC, CBS, and NBC have treated the so-called “Epstein Files” as the new Russiagate, submerging President Trump with a stunning 821 minutes of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. A Media Research Center analysis examined all mentions of Epstein (and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell) starting July 7 on ABC, CBS, and NBC across their flagship morning and evening newscasts and the Sunday political talk shows. Through Tuesday morning, ABC accounted for roughly 358 minutes of the overall total, which was nearly double CBS at 187 minutes. In between, NBC clocked in at almost 276 minutes. ABC also had the most time on all three sets of newscasts. ABC’s World News Tonight accounted for nearly 119 minutes of the combined evening total (118:52), which came out to 274 minutes with the addition of the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News. “We do begin tonight with the extraordinary scene playing out on Capitol Hill today. Survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein standing by the Capitol, some coming before the cameras for the first time...The group of women sharing their stories, what they say they survived, saying there should be a vote...to make these files public,” declared anchor David Muir on the September 3 World News Tonight. NBC Nightly News had almost 101 minutes (100:37) of declarations of doom, buoyed by multiple interviews with victims and the siblings of Virginia Giuffre by Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson. On July 27, Jackson refused to budge from this obsession with tying Trump to a notorious sex criminal, implying Trump’s landmark trade deal with the European Union was a distraction from Epstein. Even though there’s no evidence Trump had any role in Epstein unspeakable acts, anchor Tom Llamas boasted on November 12 that Epstein’s sex crimes have “haunted President Trump’s second term” with the breaking news having been the release of “20,000 pages of documents...including e-mails from Epstein that mentioned Donald Trump” and thus “shin[ed] a renewed light on the pair’s history.” Llamas again framed the Epstein case on November 17 as perilous for Trump: It has been one of the biggest pressure points of President Trump's second term, the Epstein files. For months, the President fought the full release of what the Department of Justice had gathered on the case, but today, facing growing pressure from within his own party, he changed his mind....The DOJ has long said they found no basis for charging anyone else in the Epstein conspiracy, but now those who fought so hard for the release believe they are on the brink of finally getting the answers they've been searching for. The CBS Evening News was well behind and just shy of 55 minutes (54:42). Co-anchor John Dickerson giddily led off the July 16 show by telling viewers President Trump’s “frustrations were boiling over” with “ang[er] at fellow Republicans he believes are obsessed with the Jeffrey Epstein case.” Two days later, Dickerson touted Epstein’s crimes as dogging Trump: President Trump has been trying to for it and make desperate to get the Jeffrey Epstein case off the front pages, but he just put it back on by taking steps to file a libel suit against one of the largest newspapers in America, The Wall Street Journal. This for reporting Mr. Trump once sent a bawdy birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein, which the President denies.  The Epstein scandal has a long way to go to meet the original Russiagate tally of 2,284 minutes on these same newscasts, but 274 minutes in only five months is a serviceable start. Given the salacious nature of Epstein’s vile crimes and his massive wealth, this story was tailor-made for morning TV. That was reflected as our analysis found 398 minutes with a tight battle as ABC’s Good Morning America (141 minutes) edged out CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today, which were both at 128 minutes (128:35 and 128:40, respctively). On July 14, Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos celebrated the scandal’s eruption as “a political crisis for President Trump” and predicted this was “not” going “to be going away.” ABC Capitol Hill correspondent Jay O’Brien declared on September 9 the Epstein case has been “a controversy that has consumed Capitol Hill and even some of the President’s most loyal supporters.” As it turned out, those e-mails the left had hoped would prove Trump was an accessory to Epstein’s evils showed the opposite and ran in contradiction to the late Virginia Giuffre’s insistence Trump never did anything wrong. During the November 12 show, GMA scrapped a few blocks of fluff — think celebrity interviews, cooking segments, a Disney promo, or shopping infomercials — that define the back end of morning TV so O’Brien could deliver a full report (likely thanks to an embargo agreement) on new files released by House Democrats. As for NBC, chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander boasted to Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on the July 24 Today that “President Trump is no stranger to scandal” with “a series of them since his first run for office...but this one is sticking to him unlike any of the others before.” That same day on CBS Mornings, senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe declared “[t]he case of Jeffrey Epstein...is a political headache for President Trump that won't go away.” NBC’s Alexander said a week later on July 30 that “the uproar, the headlines really about Jeffrey Epstein are not going away” for Trump despite being “frustrated by his administration’s handling of the anger around the Justice Department’s decision not to release the files.” Finally, the Sunday morning political talk shows were not immune from viewing this scandal as a way to somehow sully the President. Our review yielded just over 148 minutes with ABC’s This Week responsible for the lion’s share at nearly 98 minutes (97:58). NBC’s Meet the Press was plenty interested as well with 46 minutes (46:19), but CBS’s Face the Nation with moderator Margaret Brennan showed remarkable restrain as it only mentioned on six out of a possible 19 shows for a total of three minutes and 45 seconds. Leaving aside the fact they showed little interest in the Epstein case during the Biden administration, the networks have spent this week spotlighting a new ad featuring a number of Epstein victims, arguing they should not be ignored and deserve to see justice even though the main perpetrator is long dead. And this push came following the history-making, 44-day-long government shutdown that brought havoc to the economy and ruin to millions. Despite that, the networks combined for 80 minutes and 25 seconds — the third highest total and largest since the last full week of July — on the week the shutdown came to an end. As for why, our Jorge Bonilla wrote this about the November 12 evening newscasts, alluding to Epstein: “The Elitist Media were desperate to find an offramp as the government shutdown drew to a close. And they did, pivoting back to an old favorite but with a new, salacious angle.” Another thought came via CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings, who said on the November 12 The Source that the goal of the left’s focus on Epstein is a “thinly veiled” implication “that Donald Trump did something untoward, unethical or worse” with Epstein despite there never having been “a shred of evidence that Donald Trump has done anything wrong.”

Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, responded to the 400 block of Santa Margarita Street around 2 a.m. Sunday after a call about a suspicious person, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Grand Prairie is about 30 minutes west of Dallas.The homeowner had called 911 and told police that an unknown person forcefully entered his home through the back door, the paper said, citing police.'Just because a person is elderly doesn't mean they are not going to protect what's theirs, especially in Texas.'Police said the elderly male homeowner was armed with a hunting rifle and confronted the burglary suspect “who was rummaging through property inside the house,” the Star-Telegram reported. The homeowner "fearing for his life" shot the burglar, who died at the scene, the paper said, citing police. Police said the shooting is being investigated as self-defense, and no charges are expected against the homeowner, the Star-Telegram reported.The Dallas County Medical Examiner will identify the fatally shot person after next of kin have been notified, the paper added.RELATED: 3 armed thugs wearing ski masks allegedly break into Texas home. But homeowner also has gun — and simply does what Texans do. Image source: Grand Prairie (Texas) PoliceCommenters under the Grand Prairie News' Facebook post about the shooting have been airing their perspectives, and they seem to be fully backing the homeowner:"Play stupid games ... win stupid prizes," one commenter wrote. "Shoutout to the homeowner for exercising the 2nd Amendment and protecting his property.""It's always a shame when someone loses their life like this. It breaks my heart. The victim will have to live with the fact that he took someone's life," another user shared. "That said, every gun owner should spend time, in deep thought, planning out every hypothetical situation & their reaction in detail. I have, and I would do the same thing. Don't break into my home if you value your life. I have prepared myself.""I think this homeowner did what anyone of us would do and protected his property," another commenter stated. "It’s stupid to break into houses, especially in Texas.""Let's all give the homeowner a round of applause," another user suggested."Best news I’ve heard all day," another user declared."Just because a person is elderly doesn't mean they are not going to protect what's theirs, especially in Texas," another commenter opined.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department and the FBI on Friday to "investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him."The order has clearly ruffled some feathers among some of the infamous sex offender's associates.For instance, Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, claimed on X that the "calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander. I was never a client of Epstein's and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT."A spokesperson for Clinton told NBC News that the emails "prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing," adding that the "rest is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else."JPMorganChase said in response to Trump's announcement, "We regret any association we had with the man, but did not help him commit his heinous acts. We ended our relationship with him years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges."While some of Epstein's pen pals are proclaiming their supposed innocence, Summers, a Harvard professor who served as former President Barack Obama's top economic adviser and former President Bill Clinton's treasury secretary, has instead signaled regret and announced he is effectively going into hiding.'She is doomed to be with you.'"I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused," Summers said in a statement on Monday. "I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein.""While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me," added Summers.RELATED: Trump gives Republicans the green light on the Epstein files: 'I DON’T CARE!' Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Economic Club of New York has reportedly postponed an event featuring Summers and the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with strong ties to the Democratic Party, and indicated on Monday that Summers has ended his fellowship with them.Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) has called on Harvard University to similarly cut ties with Summers.Warren, another Democrat who has worked at Harvard as a professor, told CNN, "For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment.""If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein’s sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions — or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else," added Warren.CNN indicated that Harvard had not responded to its requests for comment.Among the over 20,000 pages of damning Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee last week were numerous messages between the dead sex trafficker and Summers, in many cases about women, politics, and projects linked to Harvard University, where Summers was president from 2001 to 2006.While remorseful now that his correspondences have been published, Summers evidently had no issue gossiping with Epstein in the years following his 2008 felony conviction for solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution from a person under the age of 18. Summers apparently wrote to Epstein as late as July 5, 2019 — a day before Epstein was arrested on new federal charges of sex trafficking of minors and a month before he was found hanged in his prison cell.The Harvard Crimson highlighted that in addition to apparently joking with Epstein about women being less intelligent than men, criticizing Harvard's admission of a black baby killer, and discussing the sex offender's donations to various initiatives, Summers also turned to Epstein for advice on romantic matters.In a sequence of texts and emails between November 2018 and the eve of Epstein's July 2019 arrest, Summers reportedly pressed the convicted sex offender — who described himself as the Harvard professor's "wing man" — for advice about pursuing a woman he characterized as a mentee.In one instance, Summers — who has been married to his second wife, Elisa New, since 2005 — reportedly forwarded Epstein an email from the object of his desire wherein she requested feedback for a paper.Epstein, responding to Summers' suggestion that he should hold off on replying, wrote, "She's already begining [sic] to sound needy :) nice."The Crimson noted that the woman Summers was attempting to seduce and referencing in a number of his messages with Epstein was Chinese economist Keyu Jin, a professor of finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who earned her Ph.D. at Harvard between 2000 and 2009.Jin's father happens to be a former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official with whom Summers was apparently quite close. In a letter dated Dec. 22, 2018, Jin thanked Summers for his support and for his support for her father's work. Her father, Jin Liquin, served as China's vice minister of finance and ran part of Beijing's imperialistic Belt and Road Initiative.Summers forwarded the letter to Epstein, noting that he "sent a comment in mtg w her father flattering her father and saying other China officials had flattered him as well."In the months that followed, both men continued to discuss Summers' relationship with the woman and joked about the Harvard professor's probability of having sex with her, even as their relationship was apparently petering out."She is doomed to be with you," Epstein wrote Summers in 2019, though the identity of the woman Epstein was referencing is unclear.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!