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Some Trump apologists struggle to comprehend that Americans are the ones paying Trump’s tariffs

Tariffs are import taxes. The Supreme Court just ruled that Trump does not have the power to levy taxes without approval from Congress.

Written by Craig Harrington

Published 02/20/26

After the Supreme Court announced February 20 it was striking down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff regime, audiences could see in real-time as some right-wing personalities struggled with the basic fact that tariffs are import taxes paid by Americans. Trump himself has also repeatedly and falsely claimed that tariffs are paid by foreign countries and companies for the privilege of entering the U.S. market.

On Friday, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision nullifying a large part of Trump’s tariff policy agenda, finding that he had exceeded his authority by imposing tariffs on dozens of countries around the world. In its ruling, the Supreme Court made clear that “the power to impose tariffs is ‘very clear[ly] ... a branch of the taxing power’” and that Trump had far overstepped his legal authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by imposing these taxes without prior authorization from Congress.

The fact that tariffs are taxes has been clear to most observers since Trump unveiled his full agenda during a so-called "Liberation Day" celebration last April, with at least one scholar describing his plan at the time as “the largest peacetime tax increase in American history.” Nonetheless, some of Trump’s fiercest sycophants just learned the lesson today.

When discussing the Supreme Court’s decision on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, the Federalist Society's Will Chamberlain noted that per the ruling, “everybody who paid a tariff is probably entitled to a refund.”

Kelly asked in response, “So are we going to get sued by other countries? Is that who's going to sue us, saying, ‘I want a refund of all the tariffs I paid to the United States’?”

Chamberlain simply responded, “No. It's going to be the actual people who paid the tariffs, and, remember, that’s United States citizens and importers.”

Megyn Kelly on Supreme Court decision: "So are we going to get sued by other countries?"

February 20, 2026

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On her midday program, Fox's Harris Faulkner was met with a similar realization while attempting to dissect the Supreme Court decision with Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn and entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis.

Faulkner attempted to wrap up the segment by asking, “If some of these countries want money back, what does that look like?”

Lemonis responded, “It’s not even some of these countries — it’s some of our own companies in our own country that are going to want some money back. And so you have importers and retailers here in this country, they’re going to be looking for money back.”

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Harris Faulkner and Megyn Kelly might have learned these basics about what tariffs are and who pays them sooner if they'd listened to one of the many experts explaining how tariffs work — or even Ben Shapiro.

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November 19, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus

HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): Critics are going after six Democrat lawmakers, in particular, over this plea to members of the military and intelligence communities. Watch this:

(VIDEO BEGINS)

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SEN. MARK KELLY (D-AZ): Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.

SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): You can refuse illegal orders.

REP. JASON CROW (D-CO): You must refuse illegal orders.

SLOTKIN: No one has to carry out orders that violate the law –

REP. CHRISSY HOULAHAN (D-PA): – or our Constitution.

...

(VIDEO ENDS)

FAULKNER: OK, you caught that, right? Refusing military orders; that would be treason. Reaction, as you might imagine: swift and fierce. Libs of TikTok posted, "Democrats are encouraging members of the military to commit treason and defy orders from Trump." And Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt says, "Sounds a little subversive to democracy-ish."

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How Fox News has justified and celebrated ICE’s violent immigration crackdown in Chicago

As ICE targeted immigrant communities, Fox whitewashed its abuses

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Ben Van Bloem, Harrison Ray, Payton Armstrong, Jack Wheatley & Sophie Lawton

Published 10/21/25

October 9 marked one month of “Operation Midway Blitz,” the Trump administration’s effort to target and harass immigrant communities in Chicago with military-style raids and violent enforcement to advance its mass deportation plans. Fox News has responded by celebrating and justifying the violence Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have unleashed on Chicago residents regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

Fox inaugurated the operation by embedding a reporter with ICE agents in a move reminiscent of the height of the global war on terror, signaling to its audience that Chicago was a battlefield that required a militarized crackdown. Over the subsequent four weeks, Fox dutifully fulfilled that expectation with coverage that painted civic resistance to ICE as proof that Trump’s authoritarian tactics were needed, while simultaneously whitewashing the agency’s worst abuses.

### Fox News celebrates ICE’s raid on a Chicago apartment building, even as the official story falls apart

On September 30, ICE initiated a raid on a Chicago apartment building that began with agents rappelling from a Black Hawk helicopter and ended with residents — citizens and noncitizens alike — reportedly imprisoned in unmarked vans, grouped by perceived race, ethnicity, or immigration status. Parents were separated from their children, some of whom were zip-tied to other kids, according to a witness. In at least one instance, an agent pointed their gun in the face of a grandmother who lives in the building, she said. Agents destroyed family belongings and lobbed flash-bang grenades as they ransacked the building.

In a different context, it would have been the stuff of right-wing paranoid nightmares. But this was a building in Chicago that houses Black and immigrant families, and Fox found it worthy of praise.

In a segment teasing coverage of the siege, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner said the security forces had zeroed in on “a Chicago apartment complex … targeting members of the brutal Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang,” adding: “Seems like a good thing."

The ICE claim that the raid would yield TdA members, which Faulkner parroted, turned out to be wrong. According to MSNBC’s reporting, only one of the people arrested was “verified” as part of Tren de Aragua, and ICE didn’t provide evidence to back up even that assertion. (ICE has repeatedly claimed people are members of TdA, only to have its accusations fall apart under scrutiny.)

The next evening, host Laura Ingraham repeated the false ICE talking point that the raid turned up gang members.

“TdA gang members in Chicago got a surprise this week, an unexpected drop-in that involved a Black Hawk helicopter and hundreds of federal agents,” Ingraham said.

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Ingraham also falsely claimed that the building raid was proof that Trump was “fixing the criminal mess” in Chicago.

MSNBC found that of the 37 people arrested, only eight had criminal charges and it isn’t clear how many — if any — had been convicted.

Faulkner returned to the story on October 2, reiterating the false characterization of the building.

“The political left is also pushing against a massive federal raid on an apartment complex taken over by members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang,” she said.

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The storming of the apartment building wasn’t the only violent incident Fox chose to celebrate. On September 19, a federal agent in a Chicago suburb threw Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh to the ground during a protest outside an ICE facility.

Ingraham praised the assault.

“A similar situation in Chicago today where absolutely unhinged agitators worked to form a blockade — they don't have actual jobs, but that is their job — in front of an ICE facility, including a Democrat congressional candidate who was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent,” Ingraham said. “Good work.” (Abughazaleh formerly worked at Media Matters.)

### Fox News justifies ICE's violent tactics

Even when Fox personalities didn’t overtly celebrate ICE’s abuses, the network has justified the Trump administration’s brutal tactics. Such coverage frequently clustered around high-profile events with dramatic footage, such as the storming of the apartment building. Other notable incidents included federal agents using tear gas, pepper ball projectiles, and rubber bullets on protesters on September 19 and again on September 26.

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Describing the same event, Fox host Jesse Watters said the protesters“went loco” and “slashed tires,” adding, “Mostly peaceful protests are no bueno in the golden age. One day they’ll learn.” Watters introduced footage of ICE’s brutal tactics by mocking the protesters, saying it “didn’t work out for them.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/19/25]

- Fox anchor Harris Faukner aired imagery of federal officers using chemical munitions at the September 19 demonstration, saying, “Of course they have to disperse that crowd.” Faulkner also asked over the footage: “What happened to peaceful protesting?” Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [9/22/25]

- Fox anchor John Roberts argued that ICE officers were “forced to shoot pepper bullets and tear gas to keep things under control” during a September 26 protest at an ICE facility. Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*, [9/26/25]

- Correspondent Mike Tobin made a similar claim that same day onThe Faulkner Focus, arguing that ICE “needed to make space” for an official vehicle even while he himself suffered effects from the fumes. Tobin added: “Pardon my delivery, I’ve just — the aftermath — aftereffects of the tear gas. Also it seemed that there were a few individuals that they wanted to detain. So they cleared out the crowd. They zeroed in … on a couple of people. They put them face down and bound them on the pavement and took those individuals into custody.” He also displayed a rubber bullet the federal agents had fired at the crowd. Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [9/26/25]

- Watters said “the Feds had to bring out the tear gas” over the weekend of September 26 because “antifa agitators have been rioting” outside their facility. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/29/25]

- OnSpecial Report, Tobin adopted law enforcement’s framing of the midnight Chicago apartment raid by claiming that “criminal illegal immigrants” had “taken the place over.” Tobin: “In the dark of night, federal agents storm an old apartment building on Chicago's South Side. They had developed information that criminal illegal immigrants had taken the place over. So a joint operation with the FBI, ATF, Border Patrol, and ICE brought in federal manpower to take control of the apartment.” Fox News, *Special Report with Bret Baier*, [9/30/25]

In two notable cases, Fox appeared to justify federal agents shooting two people, killing one of them, by repeating government claims that were soon undercut by local reporting.

### Fox News repeats government claims justifying federal agents shooting two people, one fatally

On September 12, an ICE officer in a northern suburb of Chicago shot and killed Silverio Villegas González following a traffic stop. A Department of Homeland Security statement claimed the officer had been “seriously injured,” which was later contradicted by police body camera footage in which the officer is heard saying his injuries were “nothing major.” A witness also told the Sun Times that they “didn’t see Villegas González dragging one of the agents behind his car,” and NBC News reported, “No videos show the actual shooting or the ICE agent being dragged and injured, making it difficult to corroborate DHS’s account of what happened.”

Fox framed the fatal shooting by repeating the unsubstantiated government claims.

As the news broke, Fox anchor Martha MacCallum presented DHS’ version of events without qualifications.

“An ICE officer severely injured during a traffic stop in Illinois," MacCallum said. “ICE says that the suspect dragged the officer as he tried to get away.”

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Weekend anchor Jon Scott said González “tried to flee the scene in a car, dragging the agent by his bumper,” adopting DHS’s initial characterization. “The agent wound up shooting and killing that alien.”

Then on September 28, Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy repeated the characterization, saying, “We saw an ICE agent dragged with his vehicle.”

Two Fox hosts had a similar approach to an October 4 incident in which a Border Patrol agent shot Chicago woman Marimar Martinez five times. According to her attorney, footage apparently contradicts initial government allegations that Martinez had rammed her car into the agent’s vehicle — which the government then moved more than 1,000 miles away, despite its likely role as key evidence in the case. Several of the government's claims appear to be undercut by the criminal complaint against Martinez.

Jesse Watters repeated the government’s unverified version of the event.

“So you’re saying she didn’t ram the ICE officer’s vehicle with her car and trap it?” Watters asked co-host Jessica Tarlov. She had referenced press coverage that undercut the government’s version of events, to which Watters replied: “We don’t have that — I’m just not going to take your word for it.”

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Ingraham claimed officers had been “nearly run over” and called it a “coordinated ambush of federal officers.”

Beyond the Chicago area, the Trump administration has surged — or threatened to surge — federal immigration and police forces, the National Guard, and the military into Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Portland, Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, San Francisco, and New York City. Many of those cities have already resisted Trump’s onslaughts. Wherever he sends his forces next, Fox is sure to follow, cheering his administration along the way.

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July 10, 2025 edition of Fox News' *The Faulkner Focus

BEN FERGUSON (FOX GUEST): We've got a guy that is like a Marxist-socialist-communist all in one who doesn't want to apologize for being an antisemite. And this is — and I say it over and over again — this is not your parents' Democratic Party.

This is a civil war in the Democratic Party. It is being won by the Marxists, the socialists, and the declared communists. This is a guy who ran on abolishing the New York Police Department, abolishing prisons. He wants to abolish medical bills. He wants to abolish private health insurance. He wants to ban all guns. Just go around the world and see where that's worked out.

He also wants to legalize sex work in New York City. He says he wants safe injection sites that taxpayers would pay for. He says we should have no cash bail. He wants to decriminalize all drug possessions and end sentencing, as he calls it, enhancement. On top of all that, he says if you elect me, I will never cooperate with ICE. I will be a safe haven for illegal immigrants. And this is where the Democratic Party is now.

Now, that's a long list I just gave you. But this is a guy that is saying I'm with the Democratic new party. This is happening, by the way, in LA. This is not an outlier with the mayor there. It's happening in Chicago, Harris, with the mayor there. So you look at the grass roots of the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is dead. This is who they are, and Hakeem Jeffries is now on the outside looking in.

HARRIS FAULKNER (FOX HOST): Look, I'm adding up some of the stuff you said. You talked about the drugs and, you know, legalizing prostitution. Crime and drug addiction, if you get enough of it in the streets and into the bloodstreams of the American people, they'll be easier to control. That —

FERGUSON: Sure.

FAULKNER: — is what I'm watching, Mamdani and those other districts that you are talking about who have mayors — the job that he wants next. That's what it looks like from the outside. This is punishment for the American voters.

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Trump has a problem with women voters. And he is now on a campaign to win them over.

At a town hall airing on Fox News on Wednesday he took questions from an all-woman audience and from a female moderator, Harris Faulkner, in the battleground state of Georgia.

During the event, Trump declared himself to be the "father of IVF", praised a female senator as a "fantastically attractive person", and faced a pointed question about his abortion stance.

Reading their questions from cards, with many admitting feeling nervous during the pre-recorded event, audience members asked about childcare, immigration, and the economy - all familiar ground for the former president.

When it came to inflation and the cost of living, Trump promised to expand fossil-fuel drilling in the United States and “bring down your energy costs". To a woman asking about helping parents with the high costs of raising children, Trump backed child tax credits and said he would expand them.

When asked about fertility treatment, however, Trump stumbled.

“I'm the father of IVF,” he declared. His campaign later said he was joking.

He went on to say that he had asked Republican Alabama Senator Katie Britt to explain the fertility treatment to him, describing her as "a fantastically attractive person".

He also said the Republican Party stood firmly behind in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

But the moment underscored Trump’s vulnerability with female voters.

Democrats have hammered him on the issue, noting that he appointed US Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn national abortion rights – and arguing that opened the door to challenges to IVF.

“The reality is, his actions have been very harmful to women and families in America on this issue," his opponent, Vice-President Kamala Harris, said on Tuesday.

Asked by reporters what she thought of Trump's IVF comment, she described it as "quite bizarre".

Taken as a whole, women have been sceptical of Trump since his first run for the White House in 2016. There has been one exception: exit polls suggested he won with white women in 2020.

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The town hall was broadcast on Fox News, which provided Trump with a friendly forum where he could work to improve how women view him.

One questioner told him: “I know you will fight for us in the future.”

But another pointedly asked about his position on abortion.

“Why is the government involved in women's basic rights?” she said.

Trump replied by walking the tightrope he has maintained for much of the campaign, taking credit for ending nationwide abortion rights, while also saying abortion policy should be left to the states.

Polls suggest Trump is still behind with women in 2024, during an election where the margin of victory may prove razor thin.

A New York Times/Siena College poll taken in late September and early October indicated that 56% of likely women voters backed Harris and 40% backed Trump.

Black women appeared to remain firmly on Harris's side, with 83% backing her, compared to just 12% for Trump, in the same poll.

The gender gap matters in Georgia, one of the battleground states that could decide the election and where polling suggests the race is effectively tied.

Harris holds a 10-point lead over Trump, of 54% to 44%, among women voters there, a recent poll conducted by Emerson College/The Hill suggests.

Trump, to a degree, seems aware that he needs to gain ground with women voters.

He has said at several rallies that they like him and brushed off criticism that he struggles with the constituency.

Trump has also sought to turn issues where he tends to do well with voters - like immigration, crime and the economy - into kitchen-table ones appealing to women.

“The women are going to like Trump,” he said at a recent rally in Pennsylvania, another battleground state.

“They don’t want millions of people coming through our border. They don’t want militaries pushing us around. They don’t want crime in the middle of our streets…They want to see a country that works.”

That pitch makes sense to Kim Pelletier, a 57-year-old Republican from Pennsylvania.

An ardent supporter of the former president's re-election campaign, she feels Trump will take care of female voters.

"I personally think he's going to do a heck of a lot more for women than has been done in the past three and a half years," Ms Pelletier told the BBC.

Susanne Green, another Pennsylvania Trump supporter, likes his policies on immigration.

But she had a warning for Trump when it came to winning over more women like herself.

"We don't like his harshness, we don't like the mean tweets, the rudeness. We don't like him making fun of other people,” she said.

Focusing on his policies, she believed, would win him more points with women.

"Sometimes things he says are cringeworthy and I don't like it,” she said. “But on the other hand his policies are effective and are what we need now."

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Fox News hosted an all-women town hall with former President Donald Trump, billed as an opportunity for female voters to ask the Republican candidate questions that matter to them.

The Georgia town hall, where Trump took questions on reproductive laws, transgender rights and other issues, aired Wednesday morning. But Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove some of their vocal advocacy of Trump.

The Georgia Federation of Republican Women wrote on its Facebook page Wednesday that the group helped host the event, posting photos from the venue and writing they were “Super excited for the opportunity of hosting this event right here in Georgia!”

Shortly after CNN reached out to the group and Fox News about their role, the post was edited to state they were “excited for the opportunity of attending this event right here in Georgia!” The group’s president, Pam Lightsey, later denied that it had hosted the event.

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The Republican Women of Forsyth County also posted a video from the event showing attendees chatting with Trump and Fox News host Harris Faulkner.

A Fox News spokesperson told CNN the event was not hosted by any Republican group and that it was the network’s event alone. But the right-wing outlet did not disclose the makeup of the audience in its press release announcing the town hall or in Faulkner’s introduction, stating only that it was “held with an audience entirely composed of women.”

The first question posed to Trump at the town hall came from a woman identified as Lisa, who asked the former president a question about the economy. The network did not disclose that Lisa is also the president of the Fulton County Republican Women group.

Some of the town hall attendees made it clear they were supporters of the former president, either in their questioning or in their attire.

“I want to thank you for coming to a room full of women the current administration would consider domestic terrorists,” a woman named Alicia said to laughter from the audience before a question about foreign policy.

But a portion of Alicia’s question was edited by Fox News to remove her admission that she was voting for Trump.

“I proudly cast my vote for you today. I hope they count it,” she added, according to an audio recording from a CNN reporter in attendance.

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While it’s common for a pre-taped event or interview to be edited for time, Alicia’s short remark came in the middle of her question, which remained intact on the broadcast.

During another moment missing from Fox’s broadcast, Trump asked the crowd who they were voting for, leading to a chant of “Trump, Trump” breaking out by the attendees.

Fox News did not respond to CNN questions about the missing remarks.

The crowd of women was overwhelmingly supportive of the former president, welcoming Trump with a standing ovation and often breaking out into applause during his responses. When Trump called President Joe Biden “the worst president in history” and Vice President Kamala Harris “the worst vice president,” the crowd burst into cheers.

One woman in the crowd wore an “RNC Delegate” hat. Another named Rachel wore a Trump pin visible on her blazer as she asked the former president a question.

When Faulkner asked the audience whether they opposed “biological men and boys competing against women and girls in sports,” nearly every hand in the room was raised, the Fox host noted. According to CNN’s fact check of the event, Trump made at least 19 false claims in the one-hour town hall. Faulkner did not fact check Trump on stage.

The UK-based news outlet The Independent, which reported from the Georgia event, spoke with attendees and noted many “were from Republican groups around the area whom Fox News invited.”

Rachel, who wore a Trump pin while asking the candidate a question, was later interviewed on Fox News. Though she was identified by anchor Sandra Smith as a Trump supporter, the woman pushed back on The Independent’s reporting.

“I’m nobody and I’m not registered with anybody,” she said. “I found out about this meeting late through my local county Facebook page.”

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Fox News host and anchor Harris Faulkner quickly shut down a Democratic guest as soon as he brought up the name of Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, who this week declared the ex-president meets the “definition a ‘fascist.'”

General Kelly is far from alone.

Last week, former Trump Chairman of the Join Chiefs, General Mark Milley, said he believes Donald Trump is “fascist to the core,” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”

And on Wednesday, former Trump Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, The Washington Post reported, agreed with General Kelly that Trump meets the definition of a fascist.

Esper “said in a CNN interview that he was reluctant to use the same label that Kelly used in a New York Times interview published Tuesday. But Esper then noted that Kelly had looked up the definition of a fascist in the interview — and Esper urged ‘everybody’ to do the same.”

“Ask yourself, does he fall into those categories?” Esper asked. “And it’s hard to say that he doesn’t when you kind of look at those terms. He certainly has those inclinations, and I think it’s something we should be wary about.”

In addition to declaring the ex-president meets the definition of a fascist, General Kelly shared more disturbing details about his time with Trump.

“Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ‘did some good things,’” The Associated Press reported Wednesday. “The comments from John Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, came in interviews with both The New York Times and The Atlantic. They build on a growing series of warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final weeks.”

Trump allegedly was very specific in his praise of Hitler and his regime.

“In his interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing ‘German generals,’ Kelly would ask if he meant ‘Bismarck’s generals,’ referring to Otto von Bismarck, the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany. ‘Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,’ Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’”

The AP also reported, “Kelly added that Trump often fumed at any attempt to constrain his power, and that ‘he would love to be’ a dictator,” and told The Times: “He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”

Thursday afternoon, Fox’s Harris Faulkner stopped her guest from sharing those allegations on-air.

“It’s very difficult for them. They hear all this negative, both sides, and they’re tuning it out, so how do you break through?” a Democratic guest told Faulkner. “What I think is telling is that you have someone like President Barack Obama going and stumping for his candidate where on Donald Trump’s side, you don’t see George W. Bush, you don’t see Michael Pence or leading Republicans doing that, and I think that’s a glaring thing that will come evident.”

“His former chief of staff, John Kelly, coming out —” he said before Harris interjected.

“Alright,” she declared, before her guest continued: “with these accusations —”

“You know what,” Faulkner said, talking over her guest. “I’m not going to go down that road.”

“She used the backdrop of the Naval Observatory,” Faulkner said, “to bring up some some items that were years old and without much time left, I would love for us to go into it…”

Rather than allowing her guests to continue on that topic, she called for their last quick thoughts.

Faulkner closed by asking, “I just want to know, where’s the joy? Because he’s dancing and she’s no longer joyful. Find the joy.”

Watch the video below or at this link.

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'Complete lie': Fox News anchor allegedly fabricated story during primetime guest hosting gig

David Badash andThe New Civil Rights Movement June 07, 2023

After firing its star host, Tucker Carlson, Fox News has been scheduling its other anchors to fill in as guest hosts on a week-by-week basis, with some viewers, if not network brass, seeing these as auditions.

This week Harris Faulkner, host of the far-right network’s “The Faulkner Focus” and co-host of “Outnumbered,” filled in during what was once Carlson’s slot.

Reaction online has not been positive.

On Monday, Faulkner claimed she had been kicked out of a restaurant for praying, in what The Wrap called a “blistering, biblical monologue about the ongoing ‘attack’ on the Christian faith in America.”

“We know who we are. And we know who’s we are,” Faulkner told the dwindling Fox News audience. “For those of us who believe, we must be bold in our faith right now. When you gather in public spaces pray thankfully over your food, even when the server gives you the stink-eye, or tells the manager that your peaceful grace is triggering them. Had it happen to me. I’ve been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing my head in prayer hands. In America. It’s all good. They don’t deserve my money anyway.”

Many demanded Faulkner name the restaurant, or provide proof. Among them, The Daily Beast’s senior media reporter Justin Baragona, who tweeted, Monday night, “I’m going to ask Fox News PR if Harris Faulkner can provide the name of the restaurant and date when this happened. Will update if I receive a response.”

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Baragona has yet to state he’s received a response.

Another doubter is Republican former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who wrote: “We need the name of this restaurant and when it happened. If true that’s awful. IF it’s not true… which seems most likely the case… then there needs to be accountability. Lies are not the tool of the Lord. And the USA isn’t his god.”

During that same monologue, as The Daily Beast noted, Faulkner told Fox News viewers: “Women and children are being redesigned by some sort of mad leftist science experiment.”

“It’s as though people on the left have more free time than anybody else. They want to acronym and pronoun us to death,” she said, apparently taking a swing at the LGBTQ community. “Well know this: the Lord has determined I am a woman, and my pronouns are U.S.A.”

“We are in a spiritual fightfor the soul of America,” she also claimed, “and if you think that’s not true, take a look around at what’s going on.The devil has gotten into some people. The worst part of experiencing our country ripping at the seams is that our enemies are massing, feasting on the tastiness of our weaknesses.”

Baragona pointed out, “In her first night on primetime filling in for Tucker’s old timeslot, Harris Faulkner drew 1.59 million total viewers and just 105,000 in the 25-54 advertising demographic, finishing behind CNN and MSNBC in the demo. Tucker averaged 3.26 million total viewers last quarter.”

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Former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter added, “And Jen Psaki was filling in at 8 on MSNBC,” suggesting MSNBC might have had fewer regular viewers during that time slot.

But the real outrage came on Tuesday, when Faulkner delivered what many deemed an outright “lie,” and served up proof of their accusations.

Faulker told Fox News viewers, “You know, we didn’t actually close schools in 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic.”

That’s false. Provably false.

“And sometimes we make dangerously bad decisions, like pandemic lockdowns and keeping our own children home from schools when a virus was hurting them far less often than adults,” she said, ignoring the fact that family transmission often started with children (see below.) “You know, we didn’t actually close schools in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic. We didn’t even have penicillin back then. We did sacrifice. We suffered but then we pressed on. Our enemies hate us for surviving, but they would love to be like us.”

“This is blatantly untrue and takes about 3 seconds to fact check,” observed Media Matters for America’s Kat Abu.

And fact check many did.

Some noted that penicillin is an antibiotic, not an antiviral, and would have had no effect on the “Spanish flu,” an erroneous term (the first case identified was in the U.S.) for what is broadly known as the 1918 flu pandemic. The CDC says, “The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States.”

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Attorney Brad Moss, calling Faulkner’s claim a “complete lie,” also tweeted: “Utter and total falsity. You would think these fools would have some shame after paying Dominion hundreds of millions of dollars.”

And he came with receipts, including a screenshot of a New York Times article from October, 1918, noting the entire state of Pennsylvania had “indefinitely” shut down all schools, churches, theaters, and “all places of public assemblage.”

Others pointed to a PBS article from 2020 that reads: “During the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, when an estimated 675,000 people died in the United States alone, the majority of public schools were closed for weeks to months on end. But three major cities — New York City, Chicago, and New Haven — kept their schools open amid valid questions and concerns about safety.”

So false was Faulkner’s claim, a readers’ note was added to video of it. It points to a study that states: “During the 1918–19 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools.”

Others on social media pointed to an article published last week by theUniversity of Minnesota: “More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests.”

As for Faulkner’s claim that, “Our enemies hate us for surviving, but they would love to be like us,” the U.S. ranks 15th worst among all countries around the world in COVID deaths per capita.

Meanwhile, Baragona also weighed in, noting: “Throughout the height of the pandemic, Harris Faulkner would only broadcast her show from the safety of her house.”

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fox News personality Harris Faulkner took time on Friday to bring up Hillary Clinton in a discussion about a highly controversial New York Times editorial written by conservative Bret Stephens, titled, “I Was Wrong About Trump Voters.”

“First of all I want to go back to Hillary Clinton for just a second and I normally don’t blame one person for an entire movement nor do I give them total credit either but she was a specific case of bringing hate to a new level in this country,” Faulkner told her Fox News colleagues on “Outnumbered.”

Faulkner partially praised President Bill Clinton, while not mentioning him by name or title, but said he did bring the country together during a time of economic hardship. (By the time he left office Bill Clinton balanced the federal budget and erased the federal deficit.)

“Her husband was the one in dynamically similar straits that we are today economically who said ‘I feel your pain’ to every single American. He was able to do something that really we haven’t seen anybody do since and that’s bring the entire country together, maybe for just that moment,” Faulkner said, adding, “and Lord knows he had his issues right?”

“But with her it particularly was damaging for her to express her hate for half the country after having been in a White House for eight years when it wasn’t specifically like that,” she added, presumably referring to Clinton’s remark suggesting half of Trump voters – not half the country – are “deplorables.”

Faulkner mischaracterized and misstated Clinton’s remarks from the highly contentious 2016 campaign, so for the sake of fact-based reporting here is what the former U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State said, via NPR:

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

Clinton, like Stephens in his New York Times essay, went on to talk about “that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change.”

Neither Faulkner nor most of the media ever reported on that part, arguably the more important part of Clinton’s comments, where she essentially suggested she too felt their pain:

But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

Faulkner went on to say:

When people were really down and you didn’t kick them when they were down. You tried to help them with a better economy with saying that you understood them. So now you fast forward and we get the Clinton crowd, the Hillary Clinton version of that crowd, as you say, and we’re only growing more of them. Because it’s easier sometimes to profligate hate than it is to shed your grace and love.

Watch Faulkner’s remarks below or at this link.

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Fox News host implodes when confronted about Donald Trump's frequent taxpayer-funded vacations

Sean Duffy, Harris Faulkner, and Jenna Arnold on The Faulkner Focus, Monday, June 6th, 2022 (screengrab/@justinbaragona/Twitter).

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During a back-and-forth on Fox News' The Faulkner Focus, the theme of the segment centered around the less-than-stellar job ratings of President Joe Biden amid reports that he's on pace to have the most vacation days of any other U.S. president, including Donald Trump.

This prompted liberal author Jenna Arnold to bring up to her co-panelist Sean Duffy former President Donald Trump's multiple trips to Mar-a-Lago during his presidency.

"Sean, I'm so interested and curious as to why you skipped over Donald Trump's 298 trips to Mar-a-Lago that cost taxpayers $3.4 million and all that money went right back to his golf courses," Arnold said.

Duffy tried his best to come up with an answer.

"Yeah sure, absolutely -- so you look at Donald Trump, he had -- he did take a lot of vacations, but he was working for -- I called him when he was on the gold course, myself as a U.S. Congressman," Duffy replied. "He was engaged the whole time, he was also moving, shaking -- and by the way, Jenna, the results are staggering. What Donald Trump did, from wherever he was at, was great for the American people. Joe Biden, wherever he's at, is failing the American people. That's the end result, so talk about that, Jenna. What has he done for the American people."

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/eco-fascism-rise-and-its-anti-immigrant-beliefs-have-bullhorn-fox-news

the far right is increasingly embracing an extremist ideology known as “eco-fascism,” which seeks to co-opt legitimate environmental concerns and repurpose them to support white nationalism. The alleged shooters who carried out racist, xenophobic attacks in Buffalo, New York; El Paso, Texas; and Christchurch, New Zealand, all either identified as eco-fascists or espoused eco-fascist views, but these beliefs are also being spread by mainstream conservative media figures. Fox News and other right-wing outlets regularly put forward eco-fascistic arguments that either implicitly or explicitly adopt the racist “great replacement” theory, which holds that a cabal of elites is seeking to displace white people through increased immigration.

Eco-fascism holds that immigrants are to blame for a scarcity of resources and, therefore, must be prevented from entering the United States, Europe, or other countries coded as “the West.” “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable,” the El Paso shooter allegedly wrote. That statement echoed the nativist and proto-eco-fascist Garrett Hardin’s argument that rich countries are like a “lifeboat” with limited social, economic, and natural resources – including food and housing stock – that needed to turn away immigrants, or else the “boat swamps, everyone drowns.”

In addition to this supposed competition for resources, eco-fascists hold racist beliefs about immigrants’ hygiene, respect for nature, and perceived higher birthrates. Historically, eco-fascism has held that the “purity” of a land’s natural resources should be reflected in racist ideas of a nation’s racial “purity,” most explicitly in the Nazi “emphasis on ‘blood and soil’” and “the need for a living space purified of alien and undesirable elements.” Just as the great replacement theory says that white people are being politically marginalized and subjugated, eco-fascists say they are being denied their rightful resources.[vid

November 11, 2019, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight]

The ideas that immigrants are a “drain” on resources or present an environmental risk to the United States are not limited to explicit eco-fascists though. Both of those narratives are common on Fox News, including from the network’s top star Tucker Carlson. On April 25, after Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) blamed migrants for causing “environmental degradation” at the southern border, Carlson thanked him for mentioning the “effect on the physical landscape, on the land.” The host added, “Where is the Sierra Club, you know, as our country is being trampled?”

Carlson has discussed this theme repeatedly over the years. The Potomac River “has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier,” he said in a 2019 interview in The Atlantic. “I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants.” (The Potomac Conservancy condemned Carlson’s remarks, calling them “racist plain and simple.”)

“I actually hate litter which is one of the reasons I'm so against illegal immigration. It produces a huge amount of litter,” he said in August 2018.

That December, Carlson said that immigrants make “our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.” He faced a significant backlash following those remarks, including from 26 companies which pulled advertisements from his show. But he doubled down on the comments just days later in a monologue that explicitly called increased immigration levels – not just the act of migrating – a threat to U.S. natural resources.

“Thanks to illegal immigration, huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste that degrade the soil and kill wildlife,” he said. “Illegal immigration comes at a huge cost to our environment.”

“The left used to care about the environment – the land, the water, the animals,” he continued. “They understood that America is beautiful because it is open and uncrowded. Not so long ago, environmentalists opposed mass immigration. They knew what the costs were.”

Far-right website The Federalist wrote up that segment under the headline: “Tucker Carlson Is Absolutely Right: Illegal Immigration Is Destroying The Environment.”

One year earlier, far-right pundit Ann Coulter wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Caller titled “Choose Between A Green America And A Brown America,” criticizing the Sierra Club for adopting progressive immigration policies. In the piece, she made a racist reference to a “Mexican cultural trait of littering” and promoted “taking white Western European immigrants” over “Mass Third World immigration.”

The eco-fascistic right often couches its anti-immigrant conservationism in Malthusian anxieties about overpopulation. “A sensible environmentalism” would have to ask “is it good for us or the environment that the population grows artificially through the mass introduction of foreigners?” Christopher Roach wrote in a piece for American Greatness, a hotbed of far-right Trumpist nationalism. Roach also referenced “an immigration regime that transports billions from the fertile—though impoverished—Third World,” highlighting again the overlap between great replacement panic and eco-fascist narratives.

The far right’s demonization of immigrants as “dirty” or bad stewards of the environment goes hand-in-hand with the lie that they steal wealth from the United States, or otherwise don’t contribute their fair share.

“Our national wealth is up for grabs by whomever gets here first, and they are coming,” Carlson on May 21, 2019. “The United States is being plundered.”

That segment was based on a report from an immigration restrictionist group that has deep ties to the far-right ecology movement, called the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The group seeks to drastically reduce the level of authorized immigration and stop all unauthorized border crossing, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has designated FAIR as an extremist group.

In a recent blog post, FAIR government relations manager Preston Huennekens argued that “any increase in our population is going to our tax natural resources” and that migration had negative environmental impacts “through the physical act of migrating itself,” including “border trash, smuggling trails destroying fauna, etc.”

The idea of scarcity is crucial to the racist appeal of eco-fascism, and Fox News regularly suggests that municipal and federal resources can’t accommodate increased migration.

“At a time when there were more than half a million Americans homeless living on the streets – a crushing number that our leaders ignore but that rises every single year – at that moment, Joe Biden is giving hotel rooms to illegal aliens,” Carlson declared. “It's hard to believe that's real. Oh, but it is real.”

Anchor Harris Faulkner played that clip on her March 23, 2021, show, to which Fox News’ Will Cainresponded: “Welcoming in migrants from Central America, that's all fine and good but not if it’s coming at the expense of a limited amount of resources that we're depriving of Americans.” As Media Matters noted at the time, immigrants contribute more to governmental resources than they use[vid]

March 23, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus ]

In fact, Cain’s entire premise is wrong. The world has enough wealth and productive capacity to feed every human being. The United States could house every person living here, and the choice not to is due to a lack of political will, not limited environmental resources.

Nevertheless, over a 12-week period in 2021, Fox News repeated some version of Cain’s lie, fearmongering about immigrants taking resources from American citizens in at least 46 segments, according to a Media Matters study. The same research found that Fox News hosts demonized migrant children in 32 segments, accusing them of being a burden on the educational system, such as when Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said on March 1, 2021, that migrant children who “don't speak English” were “taking time and energy away from your kids.”

Environmentalists have worked for decades to successfully expel any strains of eco-fascism from their movement. Now, right-wing media have openly adopted eco-fascistic rhetoric to conflate an ideology grounded in white supremacy with genuine environmental concerns, all in their crusade against immigration.

To paraphrase the Potomac Conservancy: These attacks are racist, plain and simple.

the fossil fuel industry has been using the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine as a pretext to call for continued, and deepened, reliance on its dirty and dangerous products. Fox News’ coverage throughout the crisis has largely echoed the industry’s talking points, specifically the idea that America needs to drill and produce more oil. Critiques from President Joe Biden and his administration related to the industry's untapped leases and record profits have also prompted Fox and guests to leap to Big Oil’s defense in recent weeks.

In the face of another onslaught of fossil fuel talking points from Fox News, other cable news networks have not held the industry accountable by reporting on its role in driving the climate crisis, polluting the environment, and exacerbating geopolitical conflicts. In pivotal moments like this, viewers deserve to learn how our reliance on fossil fuels is leaving us more vulnerable to crises ranging from climate change to foreign wars.

Fox News has absolved Big Oil of any responsibility for energy price increases, while accusing the Biden administration of scapegoating

The fossil fuel industry has waged a billion-dollar campaign to erode the public consensus on climate change, fool the public about its commitment to addressing the climate crisis, and thwart any climate action that could impact its bottom line. The industry’s spin campaign has continued as the crisis in Ukraine escalated, causing economic disruption around the world. Faced with public majorities that are outraged at Russian aggression against Ukraine and “favor developing alternative energy, including wind and solar, over increasing production of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas,” the industry has instead chosen to obfuscate its refusal to produce more oil and gas, pad its record 2021 profits via anti-consumerist practices, and move to deepen the world’s reliance on its products.

And one of its biggest media cheerleaders has been Fox News.

As tensions between Russia and Ukraine ratcheted up, Fox has been nearly unrelenting in pushing a narrative that the Biden administration’s climate policies emboldened Russian President Vladmir Putin to invade. This push includesFox figures mentioning the canceled Keystone pipeline approximately 141 times in segments about the Ukraine crisis from February 22-28 and mentioning “energy independence” or “energy security” – industry talking points to promote more domestic drilling for oil and gas – at least 329 times from February 24 through March 9.

After Biden’s March 8 announcement that the United States was banning Russian fossil fuel imports, Fox News hosts and guests blamed him for instituting the same policy that they had previously demanded – all while praising oil and gas companies as “the greatest industry around the world,” deflecting criticism of them as “unpatriotic,” and arguing they are “basically our national defense.”

On the March 8 episode of *America’s Newsroom, for example, anchor Sandra Smith parroted the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) debunked talking point about the Biden administration discouraging fossil fuel investment.Fox host and former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow attacked the Biden administration for criticizing the industry’s price gouging and record profits on the March 8 episode of *America Reports.

Later that evening on Hannity, host Sean Hannity amplified API talking points that the Biden administration is making it hard to produce more oil; allowed fossil fuel shillDaniel Turner to claim that the Biden administration “wants to send a message to the environmental left” by attacking the industry; and gave energy analyst Phil Flynn a platform to claim that “there’s absolutely no gouging” in gas prices and that the Federal Reserve has been “weaponized” against oil and gas companies. [vid 8th]

the drumbeat of Big Oil talking points continued in the ensuing days.

On the March 9 episode of The Faulkner Focus, anchor Harris Faulkner hosted API President Mike Sommersto blame Biden for high energy prices: “Some of the policies that are being pursued right now by this administration are putting us on a road to more dependence – not independence.”

Similarly, Fox host Jesse Watters hosted oil company CEO Dan Eberhart on the March 10 episode ofJesse Watters Primetimeto push for more domestic drilling and complained that the Biden administration has been treating the industry as “war profiteers.”

The narrative was still being pushed into this new week. On the March 15 episode of The Story with Martha MacCallum, Fox News anchor Sandra Smith suggested that the Biden administration should decrease energy prices for “the American family, the American consumer who is suffering right now” in part by taking a “friendlier approach to the oil and gas industry." Smith repeated this and other arguments to “increase and incentivize drilling” on the March 15 episode of **The Five, citing API’s claim that the Biden administration should demonstrate it's not out to “demonize oil companies.”

Fox personality Charles Payne echoed the idea that the Biden administration was “demonizing” oil companies during the March 16 episode of America Reports. [vid]

there is a desperate need for cable news to ramp up its accountability journalism

Despite not promoting these false narratives during the Ukraine crisis as much as Fox News, CNN and MSNBC have largely failed to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for exploiting geopolitical conflicts for profit while driving the climate crisis and degrading the environment for billions of people. The networks have also featured very little coverage about the myriad benefits of clean energy, which include economic stability and energy security (clean energy generation is more price stable and politically stable than fossil fuels).

There is a very clear story that needs to be told about the fossil fuel industry, especially in this moment of rising gas prices and wartime sanctions. As explained by the nonprofit environmental law organizationEarthjustice: “Gas prices are not dictated by White House policy, and the industry’s argument that federal leasing and permitting policies are the source of high gas prices is a flat-out lie crafted to deceive the American public.”

Chasing more fossil fuel leases on public lands and waters would increase industry profits but wouldn’t do anything to decrease today’s gas prices at the pump. It also would keep sending us down the same road of fossil fuel production that is the main driver of the worsening climate crisis. The industry gets the profits, and the American people get handed the resulting wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and coastal flooding caused and exacerbated by climate change. There’s a better road to go down, and it’s the road of clean energy. For as long as we’re addicted to oil for energy, Americans will be subject to big cost increases when a foreign dictator decides to invade another country or there is a change in the world economy.

As a key cog in the fossil fuel industry’s disinformation network, Fox News will never cover this reality. But CNN and MSNBC can no longer afford to miss opportunities to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable in favor of echoing and **amplifying Big Oil talking pointswhile the window for meaningful climate action is rapidly closing.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-heaps-praise-fossil-fuel-industry-russian-war-ukraine-rages

Fact-checking Fox News’ narrative on “America’s Crime Crisis”

01/28/22

fox News kicked off 2022 by incessantly reporting on what the network called “America’s Crime Crisis.” Fox hosts and figures told their viewers the country is in the midst of a growing crime spike, which they declared was predominantly occurring in “liberal-run” cities. The network chose to blame the entire “crisis” narrative on efforts to reform policing, a “subculture of homeless” people, and prosecutorial decisions made by district attorneys who were allegedly funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

Fox’s solution is to bring back “broken windows” policing, a theory that the physical appearance of a community -- including broken windows, graffiti, and loitering -- has an effect on crime rate, therefore law enforcement should aggressively police low-level crimes. But the coverage pushing this discredited policy ignores evidence that it hasn’t increased safety and has caused disproportionate policing of Black and Latinx people.

But the so-called “crime crisis” is much more complicated than Fox makes it seem. And while it may very well be years before the country understands exactly what has caused the increase in violent crime -- as was the case with the 1990s crime-rate increase -- there is no evidence that it’s related only to prosecutorial discretion or judicial system reforms.

Myth: The country is in the middle of a “crime wave”

During the January 3 edition of Fox News’ Fox News Primetime, host Lawrence Jones opened a segment featuring the chyron “New year, same crime crisis in America” by highlighting the number of homicides in Chicago. Jones later claimed, “We’re seeing straight-up anarchy in cities across America.”
Fox News’ Trace Gallagher hosted a segment about “America’s Crime Crisis'' during the January 4 edition of America’s Newsroom and interviewed a California gun store owner about how “this spike in crime has a lot of people running scared and everybody from prominent actors to real-estate moguls” is going to him “for help.” During the segment, Gallagher highlighted the crime statistics in Los Angeles and Hollywood, pointing out that homicides, robberies, and shootings increased from 2020 to 2021, before implying that the residents are desperate for guns.
During the January 6 edition of Fox News’ Fox News Primetime, Jones hosted a segment about Democrats’ “misplaced priorities,” claiming that as “lawlessness continues to run rampant in cities across America,” liberal lawmakers are more concerned with COVID-19 masks requirements than “punishingthe people who harm us.”
While reporting on President Joe Biden’s upcoming press conference during the January 18 edition of Fox News’ The Story, anchor Martha MacCallum claimed that Biden would have “a lot to confront” in an upcoming press conference and one of the issues is “rampant and senseless crime in America.”

Fact: Fox is oversimplifying the narrative, and though violent crime increased, the rate of nonviolent crime such as burglary and larceny dropped

The FBI designates two different categories of crime: violent crime and property crime. Violent crimes are those that involve the use of “force or threat of force,” such as murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, and aggravated assault. Property crimes are offenses that involve “the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.” This can include burglary, larceny-theft, vehicle theft, and arson.
Measuring the nationwide crime rate is extremely complicated. The FBI measures national trends of violent crime and property crime in its annual Uniform Crime Report, as well as quarterly crime reports. The annual Uniform Crime Report data comes from voluntary submissions by “8,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies.” To complicate things further, not only do police departments voluntarily report their data, but they can also choose not to report all 12 months.
The FBI has not yet released the crime report for 2021 and while this data from the bureau is the most comprehensive look at national crime trends, it’s not the only way to assess them. Some police departments release their crime statistics weekly compared to the year before, and some independently released their end of the year data for 2021.
Despite what Fox’s “crime wave” narrative implies, not all types of crimes have been increasing. Criminologist Jeff Asher from AH Analytics analyzed the available data and found that there was a roughly 3%-6% increase in murder rate nationally between last year and 2020. Asher also found that after a 15% increase in the beginning of 2021, “murder was … down in the second half of the year compared to the first.”
While showing a smaller increase, the FBI’s quarterly data through the third quarter of 2021 also suggests violent crime increased by 0.7%, yet property crime went down 0.5%. The downward trend is a continuation from 2020, when property crime dropped by 8% and violent crime increased by 5%.

Myth: This “crime wave” is happening mainly in “liberal-run” cities

During the January 3 edition of Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus, anchor Harris Faulkner mentioned the homicide increase in Chicago in 2021 before adding, “It’s not just Chicago. Seventeen major U.S. cities broke homicide records last year; all but one are led by Democrat mayors.”
During the January 3 edition of Fox News’ Outnumbered, co-host Emily Compagno opened a segment by claiming that only “Democratic-run cities are seeing record crime numbers as we enter a new year.”Co-host Tomi Lahren added that the Democratic Party needs to “come out and say, we were wrong. We want to issue a blanket apology to all the law enforcement officers we spent the last five years demonizing.”
In a January 6 Fox & Friends segment about the Manhattan district attorney’s supposed “far-left prosecution agenda,” Fox’s Steve Doocy said, “New York City is not the same place it was two years ago when it comes to safety. People are terrified to walk the streets.” Co-host Ainsley Earhardt agreed and added that this is why “thousands are moving out and moving down to safer, more Republican areas.”
In a “Fox News alert” during the January 18 edition of The Faulkner Focus, Faulkner said, “From coast to coast, crime is exploding in Democrat-run cities. American citizens are under siege.” During the alert, the in-studio screen displayed a graphic with the words “Blue-City Crime Crisis.”
During the January 15 edition of Fox News’ Unfiltered, host Dan Bongino mentioned that violent crime is spiking “particularly in blue cities” before grilling his guest, talk radio host Robert Patillo, to explain the spike in crime that is happening “specifically in liberal-run cities.”

Fact: While full data is not in yet for 2021, past trends show the homicide rate has increased nationwide

According to criminologist Jeff Asher, the murder rate in 57 cities in 2020 was up by about 37.6% and while crime trends in more populous cities do tend to exaggerate the national crime trends, the 2020 murder rate increased nationwide.
Criminologist Richard Rosenfeld called the 2020 murder increase “widespread” and said there were “very few cities that did not experience pretty significant rises in homicide during 2020.” It increased by 35% in cities with populations over 250,000 that reported full data and by 40% in cities with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. The increase was slightly smaller (25%) in cities with populations under 25,000.

Myth: The “crime wave” is a result of “progressive policies”

During the January 5 edition of Fox News Primetime, Fox’s Lawrence Jones said that “the new progressive district attorney is giving the greenlight to total anarchy” in New York City. Jones went on to describe the DA’s new policies, including not prosecuting drug possession and downgrading crimes to “something less severe like petty larceny.” Jones insisted these policies mean “it’s open season for criminals in New York City. The crime crisis we already have is about to get much worse. This is what happens when radical Democrats are elected to local offices.”
During the January 10 edition of Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus, guest and conservative radio host Jason Rantz said, “Low-level crimes, which [New York City DA Alvin Bragg] is saying would get a pass, almost always lead to more serious crimes.” Rantz went on to say these policies aren’t about second chances but about “endless chances, and that’s a problem.”
During the January 10 edition of Fox News’ Your World, host Neil Cavuto claimed the country has seen criminal justice reform policies have “disastrous results” already and that if you “remove crimes for consideration, you just have more crimes for consideration.” Fox News contributor Ted Williams agreed and later said, “We’re giving the cities over to the criminals.”
During the January 12 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy said that “we’re worried about these prosecutors … going soft on crime” and specifically highlighted data from Chicago that more people charged with crimes are on “home monitoring” programs (as a result of bail reform policies). Co-host Brian Kilmeade listed similar policies in New York, including ones that downgrade some robberies to petty larceny and encourage against prosecuting people resisting arrest if they have no priors.
During a January 14 Outnumbered segment about Rep. Mary Scanlon (D-PA), who was carjacked in Philadelphia, co-host Emily Campagno pointed out that Scanlon was a proponent of criminal justice reform, including “defunding the police.” Co-host Kayleigh McEnany mentioned that Scanlon is one of the co-sponsors of the Mental Justice Health Act, which would allow mental health professionals to respond to certain scenarios rather than law enforcement. McEnany concluded, “Those policies are the reasons this is happening.”

Fact: Policies including bail reform and not prosecuting petty crime improve public safety, and a larger police force does not mean less crime

Prison Policy Initiative, a nonpartisan organization that researches the effects of mass incarceration, released a report in 2020 that found releasing people “pretrial” does not contribute to the crime rate. The study looked at four states and nine cities and counties where data exists before and after “pretrial reforms” were adopted and found all but one saw either a “decreases or negligible increases in crime” after implementing the reforms.
Several states and jurisdictions including New Mexico, New Jersey, Alaska, Washington, D.C., and Cook County, Illinois, “passed bail reform to varying degrees for misdemeanors offenses” years ago. But there is no evidence linking those reforms to any rise in crime.
A 2021 study of 67,553 cases in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, found that not being prosecuted for a nonviolent misdemeanor actually decreases the likelihood of a new arrest within two years, by 58%. The study found that the decrease over three years is even larger and the effect is biggest on first-time offenders.
A 2020 Washington Post “review of spending on state and local police over the past 60 years” found “no correlation nationally between spending and crime rates.” Similarly, according to a 2019 investigation by USA Today, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, and The Marshall Project, the number of police officers per 1,000 residents declined in the country over the past two decades and so did the violent crime rate. A former New York City Police Department official told USA Today that when the city decided to reduce the number of officers, the crime rate decreased. He concluded that it’s not the number of officers you have, but rather what you have them doing.

Myth: “Soros-funded” district attorneys are eroding public safety

On the January 6 episode of America Reports, co-anchor Sandra Smith falsely claimed that there is an “underground campaign to loosen up laws nationwide” and asked, “Why is George Soros hell bent on fundamentally reshaping American law and order?”
Later in the same edition of America Reports, Fox News ran a segment suggesting Soros was leading a conspiracy to elect “soft on crime” prosecutors, with the on-screen chyron reading: “Billionaire Soros Bankrolling Destructive DA’s.”
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner pushed the Soros conspiracy theory in a segment on the January 10 edition of her show The Faulkner Focus, where sheplayed a clip from a former NYPD commissioner arguing that Soros is destroying the U.S. criminal justice system. She then asked conservative talk radio host Jason Rantz to talk about “George Soros' input in all of this. And we know about the cash, because he has a lot of that.”
Fox host Brian Kilmeade told the anchors of America Reports on January 10 that Soros had given $1 million to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s campaign. Kilmeade listed other cities where he claimed without evidence that Soros had influenced prosecutorial elections, stating that “this is not a conspiracy theory, this is true,” and argued that Soros’ supposed influence is causing “chaos.”
During a Fox News Primetime segment on January 10, guest and New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani connected Soros to Bragg’s campaign. Host Rachel Campos-Duffy said, “There is blood on George Soros' hands.”
After criticizing Bragg on the January 11 episode of her show, Faulkner again pushed the Soros conspiracy theory, claiming that Soros “dumped so much cash for this and other DAs in liberal cities like San Francisco and L.A. The voters must have fallen for some of that.”
Campos-Duffy again attacked Soros on the January 16 edition of Fox & Friends Weekend, saying “these liberal, woke DAs have been funded by people like George Soros” in places like New York City, which she claimed is “under siege with crime.”
On the January 19 edition of her show, Faulkner promoted the Soros conspiracy theory yet again, blaming “liberal-leaning DAs who got funding from George Soros” for causing an uptick in homicides because they want to “protect the criminals” and the victims, but they “talk more about the criminals and protecting them.”

Fact: This narrative that Soros is controlling DAs is an antisemitic conspiracy theory with no basis in reality

Soros, a Hungarian billionaire, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor, does make sometimes sizable campaign contributions to local and federal elections. In May 2021, he donated $1 million to the organization Color of Change, which helped fund Bragg’s campaign. But Bragg’s opponent outraised him by a huge margin, partly by spending over $8 million of her own money on her campaign and through large donations from finance and real estate big wigs.
Soros is hardly the only wealthy individual donating to political campaigns. In 2020, he wasn’t even among the top 30 individual campaign donors.
Focusing solely on Soros’ campaign contributions and portraying him as controlling local officials nationwide is part of a baseless antisemitic trope rooted in the bigoted conspiracy theory that rich Jewish people like Soros control the world. It’s been circulating on internet cesspools for years and has also been promoted by various right-wing figures.
Right-wing pundits have falsely claimed Soros is behind everything from Black Lives Matter protests to antifa to fraudulent voting conspiracies. The shooter who killed 11 people at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh believed conspiracy theories about Soros attempting to undermine the U.S.

Myth: The U.S. needs to bring back “broken windows” policing

In a January 6 segment of America Reports that pushed the Soros conspiracy theory and criticized Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s decision to seek jail or prison time only for very serious crimes unless the law required otherwise, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich said New York’s current policies aren't working. She added, “What did work in New York to clean up the streets was a broken window policy under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”
Criticizing Bragg’s incarceration policy on January 6, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade called the prosecutor’s approach “anti-broken window syndrome, where you prosecute the small crime and you stop the big crime.”
In a January 10 interview on Fox & Friends, Fox host and former police officer Dan Bongino said a lot of people who commit low-level offenses like subway fare evasion go on to commit larger crimes like robbing people on the train. He claimed, without evidence, that “if you let the little stuff go and you foster an environment of permissiveness on criminality, the bigger stuff happens later — the murders, the rapes, the violent assaults.”
On January 18, The Five co-host Geraldo Rivera blamed “woke DAs” for ignoring the “small stuff,” which in Rivera’s telling leads to more violent acts like the killing of Michelle Go, an Asian American woman who died after a man shoved her in front of a subway car in New York City. Rivera said, “If you don't go for the kid jumping the turnstile in the subway, … you will have that nut job that pushes the Asian woman onto the tracks.” He also absurdly claimed that “we need a cop on every subway station, a cop on every train” to prevent violence.

Fact: Broken windows has had no effect on crime, but has resulted in disproportionate policing of people of color

The premise of the broken windows policy is flawed: A 2019 Northeastern University study found no link between the physical appearance of, and order in, a community and the likelihood that residents will commit violence.
PBS’ *Frontline*reported in 2016 that the NYPD inspector general’s office found “no evidence” that policies predicated on the broken windows theory were what caused the city’s declining crime rates between 2010 and 2015. Even the originator of what became known as broken windows policing said his theory had been misapplied, telling Frontline, “There’s been a lot of things done in the name of Broken Windows that I regret.”
The New York Civil Liberties Union found that in 2011, at the height of the “stop-and-frisk” policy in New York, which was inspired by the broken windows theory, the NYPD recorded over 685,000 stops. Among those, 9 out of 10 people had committed no crime at all, and over half were Black, in a city that was only 23% Black around the time.
The NYCLU also found that between 2014 and 2017, Black and Latinx people were more likely to be frisked than white people and, among those frisked, “were less likely to be found with a weapon”; 93% of people who were frisked didn’t have a weapon on them.
According to the ACLU of Illinois, from May through August of 2014, Black Chicagoans represented 72% of those stopped by police, even though they made up just 32% of the city population at the time.

Myth: Homeless people are causing a crime wave and pose a threat to society

On a January 19 episode of America’s Newsroom discussing the death of Michelle Go, an Asian American woman in New York City who was allegedly killed by a homeless man, anchor Dana Perino claimed that if homeless people remain on the streets, they will eventually “harm someone else, an innocent person,” adding that many cities are “overrun with homeless.”
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely claimed on January 19 that American cities are experiencing a huge crime wave and that “a lot of this has to do with [the] homeless.” He later claimed that cities like San Francisco and New York are “riddled with the subculture of homeless hooked on some type of drugs, in many cases mentally deranged.”
While discussing Go’s death and other recent killings on the January 18 edition of America Reports, Manhattan Institute senior fellow Rafael Mangual criticized efforts to destigmatize mental illness, claiming that New York City’s mental health system has failed to “incapacitate people who pose a danger to themselves and others” and that “everything needs to be on the table. That includes incarceration but also involuntary institutionalization.” Co-anchor Sandra Smith agreed and added that Go’s death would scare off “very necessary people” who “fled during the pandemic” and haven’t returned because they “fear crime on the streets here.”
In a January 18 segment on America’s Newsroom, Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones said “while they figure out” the mental health system in major cities, “if someone is a risk to society, they have to be locked up. That is what … our incarceration system is for.” He added, without evidence, that homeless people have “their own criminal justice system out there where they have people that patrol the streets that are criminal.”

Fact: Unhoused people are more likely to be the victims of crime

Unhoused people are much more likely than housed people to be victims of violent crime. One study of unhoused people in five U.S. cities found that 30% reported having been the victim of a violent attack within the past 30 days. Advocates say the rate of violence against unhoused people is on the rise.
An uptick in the unhoused population isn’t correlated with rising crime. A recent study by the Guardian showed that after unhoused people established encampments in 11 locations in Portland and Seattle, nine of the locations experienced a decrease in crime. While the rate of homelessness increased 14% in Los Angeles in 2019 and 16% in 2020, crimes involving homeless people (as victims or suspected perpetrators) increased by less than 0.5% between 2019 and 2020, according to an ABC7 investigation.
Unhoused people are more likely than housed people to have interactions with police, but this is largely because their lives are criminalized through laws against camping, living in vehicles, begging, urinating in public, sharing food, dumpster diving, and vague offenses such as “loitering” or “vagrancy.”
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty found that the number of laws against homelessness has increased in recent years. Between 2006 and 2019, for instance, the number of city laws against sleeping in public has gone up 50%. In the same period, laws against loitering, loafing, and vagrancy have increased 103%.
The National Law Center and the Urban Institute suggest directly providing people with housing (rather than criminalizing unhoused people’s existence) reduces homelessness in the long term and is less expensive for taxpayers.

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harris Kimberley Faulkner (born October 13, 1965) is an American newscaster and television host who joined Fox News Channel^[1] in 2005.^[2] She anchors The Faulkner Focus, a daily daytime show, and hosts Outnumbered.^[3] Additionally, she hosts her own primetime political franchise called Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner.^[4][5] She has received sixEmmy Awards, including the 2005 awards for Best Newscaster and Best News Special.^[6]

Early life

Faulkner was born on October 13, 1965 at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia.^[7][8] Her father, retired Lieutenant Colonel Bob Harris, a United States Army officer and Army Aviator, was stationed at the base and had served three tours in Vietnam.^[7][9] Faulkner lived in different places as a child, including Stuttgart in West Germany.^[9]

Faulkner attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with a B.A. in mass communications.^[10]

Career

Faulkner's start was with LA Weekly, where she contributed as a freelance business writer for $50 per article.^[11] Faulkner started her television career with an internship at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, doing small tasks, then moved to Greenville, North Carolina, to work as a reporter and anchor at WNCT-TV.^[10][12]

From 1992 to 2000, Faulkner worked for Kansas City's WDAF-TV as an evening anchor.^[10][13] While in Kansas City, Faulkner was the victim of harassment and stalking by a former acquaintance who followed her from North Carolina.^[13]

Faulkner's next stop was at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, where she served as part of an evening anchor team. She left the station in July 2004.^[14]

Faulkner joined Fox News in 2005.^[15] She was a correspondent for the 2005 revival of A Current Affair until its cancellation in October 2005.

Faulkner anchored her first solo network newscast Fox Report Weekend from 2011-2017.^[16] In addition to Midterm Election coverage 2018, Faulkner has substitute-anchored for Shepard Smith Shepard Smith Reporting and for Martha MacCallum The Story. She also made frequent guest appearances on the night satire show Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, prior to the departure of Gutfeld from that show.^[17]

In April 2014, Faulkner began working as one of the co-hosts on the daytime Fox News show Outnumbered. In 2017, she became the anchor of Outnumbered Overtime, which has more of a hard news format rather than a discussion format. In early 2021, she started her new show called The Faulkner Focus.

Honors and awards

While at ABC's Minneapolis affiliate KSTP, Faulkner received four regional Emmy Awards, including Best Anchor three years in a row (2002, 2003, and 2004) and for anchoring a news special, "Eyewitness to War".^[18] In 1998, she was awarded the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts.^[19][20] In 2021, she was honored by Variety's 2021 New York Women's Impact Report for her 2020 interview with then-president Donald Trump after the murder of George Floyd.^[21]

Personal life

Faulkner married former WCCO-TV reporter Tony Berlin in 2003.^[14] The couple have two daughters.^[22]

In September 2015, Faulkner sued Hasbro for $5 million, claiming a plastic hamster in its Littlest Pet Shop line was an unauthorized use of her name and likeness.^[23] Hasbro settled with Faulkner in October 2016, agreeing to cease production of the toy.^[24][25]

Published works

Faulkner, Harris (November 1, 1999). Breaking News: God Has A Plan - An Anchorwoman's Journey Through Faith. Leawood, Kansas: Leather's Publishing. ISBN 9781585970117.
Faulkner, Harris (June 5, 2018). 9 Rules of Engagement - A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success. Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062697516.

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"'9 Rules of Engagement' by Harris Faulkner". Fox News. 2018-06-05. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
"Interview with Fox News Channel's Harris Faulkner". www.luxurytravelmagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
Hays, Charlotte. "Harris Faulkner". iwf.org. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner : FOXNEWSW : April 14, 2019 5:00pm-6:00pm PDT, FOXNEWSW, 2019-04-15, retrieved 2019-06-19
"DETAILS: Fox News Channel to Launch New Daytime Lineup". Fox News Insider. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
"Harris Faulkner". foxnews.com. Fox News Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ Faulkner, Harris (1999). "About the Author" atBreaking News: God Has A Plan - An Anchorwoman's Journey Through Faith. ISBN 1585970115. Harris Kimberley Faulkner was born in October 1965 on an Army base in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father, a pilot, served three times in Vietnam.
Lippman, Daniel (October 13, 2018). "Birthday of the Day: Fox News' Harris Faulkner". Politico. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ "VetFamily Harris Faulkner Inspired To Serve". VeteransAdvantage.com. February 18, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ ^c^ "Fox Names Harris Faulkner Anchor of 'Fox Report Weekend'" (Press release). Fox News Channel. April 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
Weaver, Robin (February 13, 2013). "Woman Around Town: Harris Faulkner Tells Her Story". WomanAroundTown.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
Bazilian, Emma (September 22, 2014). "Fox News' 'Outnumbered' Host Harris Faulkner Discusses the Role of Social Media in Journalism". Adweek. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ "Stalking law puts end to harassment of newscaster". The Salina Journal. Salina, Kansas. November 27, 1995.
^ ^Jump up to:^a^ ^b^ "C.J. Q&A: Harris Faulkner reflects on life at Fox News". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. February 4, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
Bauder, David (July 16, 2020). "Fox's Harris Faulkner is used to people making presumptions". Associated Press. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
"Fox Report Weekend". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
America Today (2013-10-26),, archived from the original on 2021-12-19, retrieved 2019-06-19
Midwest Emmys organization website
Connor, Sanah. "Harris Faulkner 2021: Top 10 Interesting Facts About That You Should Know Right Now!". washingtonindependent.com. The Washington Independent. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
"Leadership Organization for Women I Quad Cities Conference". www.wlcglobal.org. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
Katz, A. J. (May 5, 2021). "This Year's Variety's New York Women's Impact Report Features More Than a Dozen TV Newsers". TVNewser. Adweek. "My being an African American journalist seemed to intensify the political optics and raise the stakes for the president", she says. "By the end of our discussion, he told me that he had done more for Black Americans than Lincoln. And I reminded [him], 'Well, we are free, Mr. President.'
Rosenberg, Alyssa (April 28, 2014). "Fox News's 'Outnumbered' debuts, and the joke is on liberals". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
Johnson, M. Alex (September 1, 2015). "Fox Anchor Harris Faulkner Sues Over Hasbro's 'Harris Faulkner' Toy Hamster". NBC News. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
Gardner, Eriq (October 5, 2016). "Fox News Anchor Harris Faulkner Settles Lawsuit Over Hasbro's Toy Hamster". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
Patten, Dominic (October 5, 2016). "Fox News' Harris Faulkner & Hasbro Settle Lawsuit Over 'Harris Faulkner' Hamster". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

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Fact: Fox is oversimplifying the narrative, and though violent crime increased, the rate of nonviolent crime such as burglary and larceny dropped

Myth: This “crime wave” is happening mainly in “liberal-run” cities

Fact: While full data is not in yet for 2021, past trends show the homicide rate has increased nationwide

Myth: The “crime wave” is a result of “progressive policies”

Fact: Policies including bail reform and not prosecuting petty crime improve public safety, and a larger police force does not mean less crime

Myth: “Soros-funded” district attorneys are eroding public safety

Fact: This narrative that Soros is controlling DAs is an antisemitic conspiracy theory with no basis in reality

Myth: The U.S. needs to bring back “broken windows” policing

Fact: Broken windows has had no effect on crime, but has resulted in disproportionate policing of people of color

Myth: Homeless people are causing a crime wave and pose a threat to society

Fact: Unhoused people are more likely to be the victims of crime

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