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Justin Baragona
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Senior reporter at The Independent

Past: Zeteo media columnist, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.

Tips/hate mail: justin.baragona@the-independent.com

You can also hit me up on Signal at 314.941.6421
Here's how Fox News' Harris Faulkner frames the protest currently happening outside the Broadview ICE facility -- which features cops arresting and roughing up demonstrators:

"I guess nobody has a job on a Friday."
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Brianna Keilar: Why is this White House fighting to not release the Epstein files?

GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez: Uhh, I don't know why there is a fight, uh uhh, the American people need to know the truth whatever it is and whoever it is. I‘m very confident that the president is not implicated in this.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Fox News anchor John Roberts: "OK, we'll talk to you from Charlotte next week! Thanks, Greg!"

Gregory Bovino and Roberts then share a laugh.
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade: "The president is talking about doing a tour... about what he's doing to make things affordable... If you do that, they'll pass all the other turmoil. They'll look past all the negative press that pops up on the networks and legacy media. They'll say ok, my life's better."
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"

She did not respond.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
So it certainly seems like Karoline Leavitt isn't denying that Trump met with Lauren Boebert to get her to switch her vote on the Epstein discharge petition.

"Doesn’t it show transparency that members of the Trump Administration are willing to brief members of Congress when they please?"
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"

Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Here's John Fetterman complaining on CNN about how mean Bluesky is to him -- and how the far-left is way more "poisonous" than the far-right.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM