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Trump poses with Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve, with Epstein in the background, at the Victoria’s Secret ‘Angels’ party on April 28, 1997 in New York City [File: Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images]

Following up on the latest episode of the Epstein Affair, this kind of framing from CNN is an example of how far the legacy media will go to look for alternative answers to 2+2 equals 4:

One person close to Colbert described the show’s retirement, effective in May 2026, as a “casualty of the merger.”

That merger is CBS parent Paramount’s long-gestating deal with Skydance, a media company controlled by David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison.

The elder Ellison is a longtime friend of President Trump and has previously described himself as a Trump supporter. And David Ellison was spotted with the president earlier this year at UFC matches.

The pending deal matters for two reasons: One, because companies almost always try to cut costs around the time of a merger; and two, because the deal requires sign-off from the Trump administration.

Paramount entered into a settlement agreement with Trump earlier this month to resolve Trump’s lawsuit against the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” The company said it would pay $16 million toward Trump’s future presidential library. Trump suggested at the time that there were other components to the settlement.

While there is no evidence that Colbert’s cancellation is connected to the settlement, Democratic senators like Elizabeth Warren are asking questions about the possibility.

“America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons,” Warren said in a statement Thursday night.

It’s true, as the story notes, that late night ad revenues have been declining, but there’s an incredibly obvious explanation for why the most popular late night show on television was suddenly cancelled, and the evidence for that explanation consists of the circumstances surrounding the cancellation, which are completely damning on their face.

CNN also covered itself in glory when, in its headline on the Epstein story, it characterized Trump’s obscene pedophiliac note to Jeffrey Epstein as a note “bearing Trump’s name,” as opposed to, you know, a note from Donald Trump. As Scott pointed out yesterday, the idea that Rupert Murdoch’s paper would run this story without ironclad proof of the note’s authenticity is extremely implausible.

Trump has already filed a lawsuit, which will either be settled in the form of another straight up bribe paid to Trump personally, or will be withdrawn when Trump’s lawyers tell him he’s going to have to testify under oath. Given that Murdoch has fuck you money, fuck you attitude, and 94 years on this planet, I’m going to hazard a wager on the latter. A wager in LoomCoin but still.

. . . Trump has apparently filed his suit pro se, meaning that no lawyer was willing to sign the paperwork, or in the alternative that this is a pure publicity stunt, shocking as that might be. (There are at least in theory and occasionally in practice actual sanctions that can be brought against attorneys for filing meritless cases).

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