Except it doesn't do that. Lets shuffle the teams and see if you can see how dumb this comes across.

Imagine Abdul El-Sayed having an interview with fox news, and after months of painting him as wanting Sharia law, close friends with people that hate America, and the daughter of a woman involved with the Muslim Brotherhood. In that interview they talk about someone that made a political assassination attempt on El-Sayed, stating their hate for all of the above. When asked about the manifesto of the shooter, El-Sayed says they were mentally ill and it's terrible what the lies they've been convinced to believe about him. If the fox news interviewer then smugly says, "Oh do you think it's referring to you?" does that not come across as the absolute dumbest smarmy gotcha? Wouldn't that make you feel more like the media is being deceptive and moving in bad faith when talking about El-Sayed?

I am fully aware of the difference in these cases, and that Trump actually is a pedophile and rapist, but this smug clap back does nothing but galvanize those that already think the media is "out to get Trump". And if we want to actually try and convince whoever in the Trump cult is teetering on realizing they've been lied to, its with the detailed receipts of how close Epstein and Trump were. Not pithy witticisms that amount to "pedo says what?".