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Right-wing media celebrate Trump’s revenge tour

Written by Isabella Corrao & Helena Hind

Research contributions from Jane Lee

Published 10/24/25

Right-wing media are rejoicing over President Donald Trump’s execution of his promised revenge tour. In the first nine months of his second administration, the president has targeted political opponents and Democrat-led cities, states, and institutions. From indictments against Trump's former FBI director and national security advisor, to threats to revoke federal funding, to the deployment of the National Guard in cities, right-wing media figures have defended, justified, and commended Trump’s actions through it all.

Donald Trump has targeted political opponents and Democrat-led cities, states, and institutions

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October 6, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): When you look at the DOJ filing -- I bring my primary sources when I'm on with Jessica always -- the 169-page DOJ filing requesting an emergency filing to reverse that judge. What you find in it is this: their legal authority is 10 U.S.C 12406. They say in two cases Donald Trump can federalize the National Guard. One case: you're unable to implement the laws of the United States. You cited the laws of the United States. It's immigration law as passed by Congress. Unable to enforce that because ICE agents are being targeted.

Number two: you can federalize the Guard if there's a rebellion against the authority of the government. Well, ICE is government. There's a pretty clear rebellion against this authority. Go ask the Dallas ICE agents who were targeted with anti-ICE bullets. This is a rebellion against US government sources.

And also, what's interesting, you only have to get ten pages into this lawsuit, here's what you find, just to add to Jesse's list here. There's someone who wielded a firearm at ICE in Portland. There's an individual -- you mentioned the rocks, the sticks. Listen to this, officers have been bitten, kicked, shot with paintballs, threatened with a machete and a knife, and assaulted with potentially blinding lasers. The protesters literally lit a material on fire up against the courthouse and other protesters threw accelerants on the fire. That's just one fire, there was another fire too. That one was done with motor oil over the building in Portland ICE.

Donald Trump is on strong legal footing. I can't speak to the one federal judge. I think they're going to get reversed. The ninth circuit sided with Trump once, I think they'll do it again. You can't be biting ICE officers and lighting their building on fire.

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Fox attacks Scott Pelley for accurately describing Trump’s war on the press

Written by Matt Gertz

Research contributions from Alicia Sadowski

Published 05/29/25

Fox News and Fox Business hosts are lashing out at CBS News’ Scott Pelley for criticizing President Donald Trump’s attacks on free speech and civil society, even as his network’s parent company reportedly prepares to capitulate to the president’s assault.

“Journalism is under attack,” the 60 Minutes correspondent said in a May 19 commencement speech at Wake Forest University that went viral over the weekend. “Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.”

While Pelley did not mention the president or the White House by name, no one missed the implication — including Fox’s stable of pro-Trump zealots.

The mainstream press’s purported Democratic partisanship and untrustworthiness is one of the pillars of Fox’s programming. On Tuesday and Wednesday, it was Pelley’s turn as the networks’ media hate object of choice.

Sean Hannity, the Trump political operative who also hosts a prime-time Fox News show, denounced Pelley’s address as “full of rage and anti-Trump rhetoric,” adding that the 60 Minutes reporter is not a journalist but a “biased liberal radical talk show host” and “a phony liar.”

Former Trump economic adviser turned Fox Business host Larry Kudlow’s take was that Pelley had “the worst bout of Trump derangement syndrome,” while Harris Faulkner claimed he was “fighting for relevance.”

On The Five, Greg Gutfeld attempted to defuse Pelley's comments about authoritarian attacks on the press by pointing out that the CBS newsman hadn’t been arrested after his speech — only for his co-host, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, to respond that “he should have been.”

And Laura Ingraham not only panned Pelley as a “Trump-hating former anchorman” — she used the opportunity to tout the Trump administration’s effort to punish his network.

“There's nothing worse than someone who pretends to be persecuted while ignoring real persecution, or pretends to be the keeper of the truths when associated with a network that did everything it could to protect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, even editing an interview with the VP to make her look smarter,” Ingraham said.

“So, it was bad timing for Scott's commencement sanctimony about truth and justice when 60 Minutes’ alleged corruption is being now cited as a potential sticking point in Paramount's $8 billion sale to Skydance Media,” she added. “Whoops. But the press has no one to blame but themselves.”

Pelley is correct about the Trump administration’s assault on the free press.

The president has long sought to discredit critical journalism. He decries reporting he doesn’t like as “fake news” and tries to chill it through a combination of personal lawsuits, threats of criminal investigations, and the weaponization of federal agencies against news outlets and their owners.

Pelley’s show and network, as Ingraham indicated, are among the biggest targets of this strategy. Trump and his allies claimed during the 2024 election that by airing two different portions of Harris’ response to an interview question — one on 60 Minutes and another in a preview of the interview shown on Face the Nation — CBS News had committed, in the president’s words, “the biggest scandal in broadcast history.” Trump called for CBS to lose its broadcast license and subsequently filed a $20 billion lawsuit against the network and its parent company, Paramount Global.

The only thing more insane than a legal attack over the editing of interview clips is Fox’s willingness to carry water for the argument. First Amendment attorneys told CNN that Trump’s suit was “ridiculous junk” and “a frivolous and dangerous attempt by a politician to control the news media.” And in January, then-Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel tossed a similar complaint filed by a right-wing group, arguing that it sought “to weaponize the licensing authority of the FCC in a way that is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment” and turn the agency into “the president’s speech police.”

But while Rosenworcel warned against turning the FCC into “the president’s speech police,” her Trump-appointed replacement, Brendan Carr, apparently sees that as his mission. He said before taking the post that the complaint was “likely to arise” in the agency’s review of Paramount Global’s planned merger with Skydance Media, swiftly revived the probe afterward, and has slow-walked the merger ever since.

When the Trump administration tried a similar tactic in his first term, blocking Time Warner’s purchase by AT&T while the president railed against Time Warner subsidiary CNN, AT&T stood firm, fought it out in court, and won. Several law firms who fought back when Trump targeted them for retribution in his second term have also found success.

But Paramount and its chair, Shari Redstone, who reportedly “stands to clear billions of dollars on the sale of Paramount,” are apparently setting a different, more craven path. Reports have indicated for months that Paramount executives are eager to settle Trump’s lawsuit in hopes that his administration will then approve their deal. In April, 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens stepped down in light of what Pelley suggested was increasing, inappropriate Paramount scrutiny of CBS News reporting. CBS News President Wendy McMahon was forced out in May, saying, “It’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward.”

Paramount’s capitulation appears to be coming to a head. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the company has offered Trump’s lawyers a $15 million settlement, but “Trump’s team wants more than $25 million and is also seeking an apology from CBS News.” The apology, the Journal reported, had been a sticking point for McMahon. Meanwhile, Trump’s legal team reportedly “threatened another lawsuit against CBS related to alleged bias of its news coverage,” while Trump himself responded to a different 60 Minutes broadcast by calling for the network to lose its license and directed Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment.”

If Paramount folds in the face of Trump’s extortion, Redstone may get her big merger payday. But the result will only encourage the president to make more attacks on CBS News and other news outlets. His aim is to quell negative reporting by any means necessary, and his appetite for humiliating and delegitimizing the press cannot be sated without news outlets becoming as servile as his Fox propagandists.

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December 9, 2024, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered

LARRY KUDLOW (CO-HOST): I just want to go back inside the church for a minute, Molly. Take a careful look at that. That wasn't a nice conversation. That was outright flirtation. It was almost —

HARRIS FAULKNER (CO-HOST): Oh my goodness!

KUDLOW: That was almost heavy — that was almost heavy-duty petting at the G7 level. I've been there. I've seen these things before. So I'm just saying the evidence is mounting.

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KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): Trump said, Harris, his response was that she could not have been nicer. I would also note, to Kristen Welker, he said that he has not interest in putting a prosecutor on the Bidens. He wants to look forward, not the past. He is magananimous.

FAULKNER: Look, I mean, politics is a blood sport. And Larry what you were pointing out, you know, outside of some of the extracurricular activity you described, I do believe that in these moments you do want to gravitate — I mean clearly she gravitates to power. You're not in a White House with a husband who really could have sat down long before that debate on June 27. Yeah, I'm just going to say it, because it's the truth. So she's gravitating to power and the shiniest object in the room at that moment, the one with the really good lighting, Molly, is Donald Trump. So she goes over and kind of soaks that lightning up.

KUDLOW: This fondness for power is what I metaphorically called heavy-duty petting at the G7!

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October 23, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Bring us to probably the most controversial thing that's happened over the last 24 hours, arguably the October surprise that John Kelly and General Mattis are authoring.

KAYLEIGH MCENANCY (GUEST CO-HOST): Yeah. So this — I heard this overnight. So this is The Atlantic. It's Jeffrey Goldberg, and here's the headlines from The Atlantic. Trump: "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had", and you can see the subtitle there, the Republican nominees, preoccupation with dictators, and it goes on.

When I saw this, first, they talk about a meeting with the Guillén family. The Guillén family tragically lost their sister, lost their daughter. She served our country honorably. And they characterize a meeting, one in which I was in. I was not in this December meeting they speak of, but a meeting with this family.

And here's what the sister said about this story. Wow. I don't appreciate how you all are exploiting my sister's death for politics. Hurtful, deceitful. The important changes she made for servicemembers, and indeed she did. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family and Vanessa.

I was in that July meeting. That was undoubtedly the case. But the reason my antennas went up last night when I saw the name Jeffrey Goldberg is because I was on a tarmac in September of 2020, and a story popped from him in the Atlantic, and it was the suckers and losers story we have all heard. Within hours, I was able to collect more than a dozen individuals, several who several who were firsthand sources saying that never happened.

Zach Fuentes, who was an aide of John Kelly, came out and said that never happened. We found contemporaneous documents disputing the reporter who said Trump did not go to the cemetery not because of a bad weather call. John Bolton's book disputes that. We found a contemporaneous document to dispute that. My point is, this is based on 4 anonymous sources.

KILMEADE: Mhmm.

MCENANY: 2 weeks before an election, disputed by people on the record, and yet it led a CBS news broadcast. What a shame. What a shame.

KILMEADE: Did they include your portion? Did they include?

MCENANY: No. They never reached out to me. I was in that first meeting. Never reached out to me. But I will say this quickly. Donald Trump, I've never seen him more downtrodden than when the suckers and losers story came out.

He'd normally stuff came out of his about his finances, fake stories. He didn't care. He was devastated by that story. I remember him saying, what kind of monster would ever say words like that? This is shameful reporting from the Atlantic, in my opinion.

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Well, to the former president's point as well, he said when asked about this, he goes, just think about this logically. He goes, I'm in a cemetery surrounded by generals. He goes, why would I — why would I say he said, one of them would deck me in the face over something like — he goes, why would I say something? It just logically does not make sense to say that comment in the cemetery surrounded by generals. Absolutely.

KILMEADE: I have — the opinion on this, I saw this coming. You know I've said this for about for about a year. Yeah.

JONES: You did call this.

KILMEADE: So I read HR McMaster's book. I thought that was gonna be it. I find him unbelievably insightful and smart. I read his book. You know what he did as national security adviser?

He spent the whole time dealing with Mattis and Kelly, who I also like and have huge respect for, who didn't like the president, thought he was incompetent and not capable of doing the job, and they thought it was his their job to rein him in. McMaster said, even though he's a 3 star, telling 4 stars, and said, that's — we're civilians now. That's not your job. Your job is not to reign in the president. Your job is give him the best advice possible and do what he said.

Play this out. So if your general, who's your chief of staff, and your secretary of defense is not doing what you say on an everyday basis, he's like, you know, I'd love I could see him going, I love generals that listen. That would be great.

And he's also from a world where his company is huge, but it's a family company. So when he asked Eric or somebody to do something, they do it. It's not even publicly traded. He doesn't have board members.

All of a sudden, now he's like, do this. What do you mean you can't do it? Do this. What do you mean you can't do it? What do you mean I'm not allowed to do it?

And after a while, while being investigated, there were probably times we topped off. Wouldn't it be great if generals actually listen? Right. Can you imagine if some people listened to the commander-in-chief? I could absolutely see that happening.

And why and they know it in context, but they said he could win. I'm gonna stop him.

DOOCY: And so The Atlantic is getting a lot of publicity for this particular article, you know, and it's getting a lot of publicity because of the Hitler comment, which the Trump campaign says he never said that, and also the cost of the funeral because during the meeting you were at, for with, the family of Vanessa Guillén, he said, how much is it gonna cost? I you know, and her lawyer said the family lawyer said, well, the military is gonna take care of it. And he said, well, if there's a problem, let me know. I will financially pay for it.

And they said the things that he said afterwards never happened as well.

MCENANY Well, another story. And to your point, Brian, no new wars on President Trump's watch. So I think the results kinda speak for themselves.

KILMEADE: What is all -- when you say and done. You, you find out who got the military vote. And you find out maybe he doesn't get the general vote, but the people that serve, he's got their vote.

MCENANY: Absolutely.

JONES: They punish people below them, these four stars, for less than what they've done to Donald Trump. The insubordination that they coordinated --

KILMEADE: -- all the critical of Trump but not Biden, who authored of the worst disaster in the military

JONES: Well not just that. He commissioned the whole white supremacist report that came up fraudulent at the end of the day. So doesn't have much credibility in the military.

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Right-wing media spread falsehoods about Minnesota’s abortion law after Trump’s poor debate performance

Special ProgramsAbortion Rights & Reproductive Health

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Media Matters Staff

Published 09/11/24

Right-wing media figures responded to former President Donald Trump’s poor debate performance on Tuesday night by spreading falsehoods about Minnesota’s abortion law.

During the debate, Trump made false and misleading assertions about legislation enacted by Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine,” Trump said. “He also says execution after birth, it's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay.”

As ABC News moderator Linsey Davis noted after Trump’s comments, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.”

Trump’s comments about “abortion in the ninth month” are also misleading. In 2023, Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act, or PRO Act, into law, further codifying the right to an abortion in Minnesota. As KARE11 reported this April, Minnesota healthcare providers performed only one third-trimester abortion in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. The same was true in 2019 and 2020. In 2021, a single Minnesota resident was listed as having received a third-trimester abortion, but it was performed out of state. Generally, only about one percent of abortions nationwide occur after 21 weeks.

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, right-wing figures took Trump’s comments and ran with them.

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade falsely claimed that under Walz, Minnesota performed five “abortions” after a child had been born — in other words, had committed the crime of infanticide. “It soon turned to the fact-checking on abortion, when it come to there’s no abortion after the ninth month, when, in fact, under Gov. Tim Walz, it happened at least five times in Minnesota,” Kilmeade said. “When a moderator … fact-checks you and the moderator is wrong, that's tough on a candidate.”

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CitationFrom the September 11, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends

It’s not entirely clear what Kilmeade is referring to, but he is completely wrong on Minnesota’s abortion laws. In 2021, Minnesota recorded five instances of a “born-alive infant” following an abortion procedure; two were not viable, two were provided “comfort care,” and in the final instance, “fetal anomalies were reported resulting in death shortly after delivery.” In no case was a so-called post-birth abortion performed.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also mischaracterized the 2023 Minnesota legislation, writing on X (formerly Twitter), “The left believes in legal infanticide.”

CitationFrom Charlie Kirk's X/Twitter account

Contrary to Kirk’s claims, the 2023 law clearly states: “An infant who is born alive shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law.”

As 10News reported, citing a doctor who supports abortion rights, the law was designed to make “sure doctors aren't forced to prolong the suffering of an infant unable to live on its own.” An editorial in the Star Tribune further explained how the law’s changes supported families by not forcing “an infant with severe anomalies undergo extraordinary and futile medical care.”

Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany echoed Kirk’s mischaracterization of the Minnesota law. “Where was the question about Tim Walz allowing babies born alive after abortion to die in Minnesota and then removing reporting requirements?” McEnany wrote on X.

CitationFrom Kayleigh McEnany's account on X/Twitter

The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles similarly wrote, “Kamala’s own running mate repealed the legal requirement that physicians attempt to ‘preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.’”

CitationFrom Michael Knowles' account on X/Twitter

Knowles’ colleague at The Daily Wire, Mary Margaret Olohan, did as well.

CitationFrom Mary Margaret Olohan's account on X/Twitter

Right-wing radio host Erick Erickson made a similar claim, though did not specify that he was talking about Minnesota.

CitationFrom Erick Erickson's account on X/Twitter

This line of attack against Walz isn’t new. In August, Fox’s McEnany made similar misleading claims, telling her viewers that “his abortion policy allows abortion until birth.”

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Fox News panel slams the Inflation Reduction Act with data that’s 2 years out of date

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Fox News panel slams the Inflation Reduction Act with data that’s 2 years out of date

Perhaps the team at Fox simply forgot what year it is?

Written by Craig Harrington

Research contributions from Zachary Pleat

Published 09/06/24

All five of the co-hosts of Fox News’ midday program Outnumbered got in on the action Friday of taking shots at one of the Biden-Harris administration’s signature legislative accomplishments: the Inflation Reduction Act.

In their criticisms of the law they seemed completely unaware of the dramatic reduction of inflation that has occurred over the past two years, and they dishonestly characterized the bill as a sort of Trojan horse for major climate legislation.

On the September 6 edition of Fox News’ Outnumbered, co-host and former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany introduced the segment by slamming President Joe Biden for “admitting” that the Inflation Reduction Act “wasn't about inflation; it was really about his climate agenda.”

As the segment progressed, all of the co-hosts took turns deriding the “Inflation Explosion Act” for supposedly resulting in increased inflation and mocking President Joe Biden for his purported recent admission that the IRA was actually just a version of the Green New Deal.

Fox News’ production team also paired the segment with a misleading on-screen graphic criticizing Biden for annualized inflation rising from 1.4% before he took office to 9.1% in June 2022.

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CitationFrom the September 6, 2024, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered

Both of Fox’s lines of attack are deeply misleading.

First, the Inflation Reduction Act is not simply a rebrand of the Green New Deal. Fox has been lying about this for years, and it has never been true.

The Biden administration has also not been secretive about the historic climate provisions included in the bill. As the bill was being negotiated in July 2022, The Washington Post touted that its provisions included “the nation’s biggest-ever climate bill.” CNN likewise described the law as “the largest climate investment in US history, and by far the biggest legislative win for the environmental movement since the Clean Air Act.” Last August, the White House marked the first anniversary of the passage of the IRA by releasing a fact sheet boasting that the IRA “is the most ambitious investment in combating the climate crisis in world history.”

Second, the inflationary peak the Fox personalities claimed to be so upset about occurred more than two years ago. The Inflation Reduction Act was negotiated in Congress and enacted into law amid that inflationary peak.

The IRA was enacted in August 2022 and, since it went into effect, all traditional measurements of inflation have improved considerably –– a fact McEnany glossed over.

Fox viewers were shown this graphic, which included only January 2021 (when the economy was still largely dampened by COVID) and June 2022 (peak of inflation). Fox could have easily shown its viewers more recent data, demonstrating that inflation has been stable for over a year and is now only slightly higher than pre-pandemic levels:

Fox personality Lisa Kennedy Montgomery slammed the administration, saying that working families “haven’t gotten a raise” and that the price of eggs has risen to “$10 a dozen,” but those statements are simply false.

In reality, average hourly wages are up, wage growth has outpaced inflation since May 2023, and the average egg price is $3 per dozen nationwide. Even with inflation, an analysis from the Center for American Progress shows that wage increases had surpassed price increases by November 2023.

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  1. ### Newspapers largely failed to report Trump's inflationary policies, and economists have taken it upon themselves to warn the public

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Fox host calls the United Nations "the greatest antisemitic organization ... outside of the terror organizations" | Media Matters for America

October 31, 2023, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered

EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): I just want to dig a little deeper into the UN, because as we consistently repeat how the greatest antisemitic organization, essentially, outside of the terror organizations is the UN, I want people to understand and know exactly why and how.

So for example, last year the UN condemned Israel more times than they condemned every other country combined. And when you spoke about the ones that they condemned last year, no condemnations whatsoever toward Turkey, China, Qatar, Venezuela, and more. And not only was that just last year alone, but since 2015, the [United Nations General Assembly] has adopted 140 resolutions condemning and criticizing Israel. Guess how many for the world combined? Sixty-eight. A mere 68.

And I have to point out this, the final point, because we're getting low on time, that just in the beginning of this year, before these atrocities began, before Hamas invaded Israel and butchered their people with the goal of extermination, the UN referred to the ICJ, the International Criminal Court of Justice, they referred Israel for what they called the "prolonged occupation, settlement, and annexation of Palestinian territory." To me, Israel is wasting that effort against – before the UN with these yellow Stars of David they should be so proud to wear, that we all solidarity wear with them. Because that body, more than anyone else, is the deaf ears.

KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): Yep, almost as if the United Nations exists to target one nation, Israel.

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Some of Fox News’ most influential commentators are misconstruing recent remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, falsely claiming that the Biden administration is preparing for “war” against the Republican Party as Fox continues to push the fallacy that conservatives are being persecuted.

Fox News has relentlessly attacked Harris since she joined President Joe Biden’s ticket in 2020. In addition to a constant stream of racist and sexist remarks, the network has waged a war of manufactured outrage against Harris, either by claiming she was laughing at gas prices — when in reality she was just laughing at a meme — or by inexplicably blaming the vice president for Russia’s violent escalations against Ukraine.

During the September 11 edition of NBC’sMeet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Harris, “We are now as a nation battling a threat from within. Is the threat equal or greater than what we faced after 9/11?” Harris replied that she had taken an oath to “defend and uphold our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic” and that “we don’t compare the two in the oath, but we know they both can exist.” Harris also noted that she wished that domestic threats were not filtered through “some partisan lens,” but notably did not say domestic threats were more dangerous than the threat of terrorism during and after 9/11.[dan ball Hoe?]

Similarly, during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on September 11, Clinton reflected on “how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals.” (The network’s obsession with Clinton is well-documented.)

It didn’t take long for Fox News to latch on to the narrative that Harris, Clinton, and the Democratic Party writ-large had issued a “declaration of war” against MAGA Republicans.

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...The United States homicide rate has reached an unprecedented 100-year record high, and while many news outlets have shed light on the disturbing statistic, New York Times opinion columnist Paul Krugman is exposing the real problem with Fox News' reporting of it.

On Wednesday, October 6, Krugman took to Twitter with his take on Fox News' presentation of those statistics. Fox News noted that the homicide rate spiked by a whopping 30% from 2019 to 2020. While the statistic is based on accurate data, Krugman pointed out that Fox News left out one glaring detail: the murder rate spiked during former President Donald Trump's time in office, long before President Joe Biden took office.

Krugman tweeted, "To be clear: Fox News isn't stupid. It thinks its viewers are stupid — that they won't notice that Trump was president in 2020, that they'll blame Biden for bad things that happened *before he took office* And Fox News is probably right."...kaylee spox deleted

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what planet' is Kayleigh on? McEnany's latest mind-boggling claim has critics offering a history lesson

Meaghan Ellis

August 25, 2021

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany triggered quite a few critics when she claimed the United States did not see "crisis after crisis" when former President Donald Trump was in office

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Kayleigh McEnany keeps having to emphatically deny that she lied while serving as President Donald Trump's final press secretary. It appears to be a question that keeps coming up for her, which could be because her claim isn't one that is believable or there are so many examples of egregious statements she made over her tenure in the press room.

Among many of the critics of McEnany was PolitiFact, which has a scorecard for the former White House staffer showing most of their checks showed her lying most of the time. In fact, 56 percent of her statements were mostly false, false, or "pants on fire" false. Just 14 percent were "half true," and 28 percent "mostly true." She got 0 percent of her comments reviewed that were "true."

Here is a list of some of McEnany's lies to remind her:

  1. When she defended Trump's claim almost saying COVID-19 affects "virtually nobody."
  1. Trump's remarks about injecting disinfectants were "taken out of context" she claimed. That's a lie.

Here's what Trump said: "I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. So you're going to have to use medical doctors with — but it sounds interesting to me."

Here's what McEnany said: "President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should consult with medical doctors regarding coronavirus treatment, a point that he emphasized again during yesterdays' briefing. Leave it to the media to irresponsibly take President Trump out of context and run with negative headlines."

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  1. McEnany claimed that Trump never "never downplayed the virus, once again. The president expressed calm. The president was serious about this."

The recordings with Bob Woodward confirmed that Trump was well aware that the virus is "more deadly" than most people understand and admitted that he intentionally downplayed it to ensure there wasn't panic.

  1. After the Mueller report was published McEnany said that it revealed "the complete and total exoneration of President Trump."

This happened in her first-ever press conference for the White House moments after she promised the press, "I'll never lie to you."

Mueller's report says, word-for-word in the conclusion that "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

The report also included 10 examples of Trump's efforts to obstruct justice, which Mueller testified before Congress could be charged after he leaves office.

  1. Kayleigh McEnany claimed that Trump stands with those with pre-existing conditions.

This came as Trump's administration worked with the Republican-led House and Senate to bring down the Affordable Care Act. It was voted down by the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Trump's Justice Department also made an effort to bring it down saying to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act "must fall."

Even Vanity Fair pointed out the hypocrisy of McEnany after she left the White House. And those don't even count the post-election lies and the attacks on former President Obama's transition, which she insulted after Trump claimed the Obamas were "magnificent."

McEnany isn't the only one who has attempted to rebuild her reputation after the Trump administration. Some pundits believe Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is gearing up for his own major political run for president or vice president. He too has been telling some whoppers trying to rebuild his reputation. Conservative columnist Max Boot even mocked that there isn't enough room in the newspaper to chronicle all of Pompeo's lies.

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Sweetheart, there are tapes’: Kayleigh McEnany slammed for claiming Trump ‘never downplayed the virus’

Alex Henderson September 9, 2020

On Wednesday, more details emerged about veteran/author Bob Woodward’s new book, “Rage,” which is based in part on a series of interviews with President Donald Trump from December 2019-July 2020…

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The lies and distortions at the 2020 Republican National Convention have been numerous, including claims that President Donald Trump had a first-rate response to the coronavirus and claims that he has tried to protect health coverage for Americans with preexisting health conditions. In response to this dishonesty Wednesday night, CNN’s Daniel Dale launched into a brilliant stream of fact-check of the mendacious event.

Dale told his colleague, Anderson Cooper: “There is just so much dishonestly and inaccuracy at this convention. It’s hard for me to know where to start. It’s not just big things like this broad revisionism on the response to the pandemic — it’s little inaccuracies, carelessness.”

Dale noted that Lara Trump, who is married to one of the president’s sons, Eric Trump, use a “fake Abraham Lincoln quote” — adding that “a number of tonight’s false claims came from the vice president, Mike Pence. He repeated one of Trump’s own favorite lies. He said that because of them, we now have Veteran’s Choice. As I’ve said over and over, (President Barack) Obama signed that Choice law in 2014.”

Dale explained that while Trump signed a 2018 law that “modified and expanded the Choice program,” he “did not create it.” And Dale went on to point out that “Pence boasted twice that Trump suspended all travel from China. He didn’t; he imposed a partial travel restriction that contained multiple exemptions.”

Pence, at the 2020 RNC, claimed that former Vice President Joe Biden supports open borders, but Dale noted, “Biden does not support completely unrestricted migration.”

Dale slammed Rep. Elise Stefanik, another RNC speaker, for saying that the impeachment of Trump by House Democrats in 2019 was illegal — and told Cooper, “Come on, it’s legal. Impeachment is in the constitution. And like Trump himself, we had Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claiming that Trump stands by Americans with preexisting conditions. Look, Trump has repeatedly tried to get bills passed to weaken Obamacare’s protections for people with preexisting conditions. And he is currently in court fighting to get the entirety of Obamacare overturned.”

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This is pretty nuts’: Kayleigh McEnany struggles to defend Trump’s vicious murder conspiracy theory

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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was forced to defend President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday.

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Every word a lie’: Experts destroy Trump’s new White House Press Secretary for latest fibbing flop

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week, former CNN commentator and 2020 Trump campaign spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany was named White House press secretary. We put together a lot of what you need to know about the former CNN commentator. McEnany has shown a willingness to be dishonest and defend the president at every turn, both requirements in the Trump administration.

Here are some recent examples of McEnany spreading misinformation about COVID-19, as well as past examples of propaganda on behalf of the Trump administration:

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trump’s New Press Secretary’s Troubling Remarks

Kayleigh McEnany, the latest Trump White House press secretary, has made troubling remarks downplaying the coronavirus pandemic and claiming former President Barack Obama is not from the United States.

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