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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no twt</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With devotees of former Present Donald Trump currently conducting a blatantly partisan audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, One America News Network has been offering glowing coverage of that event. Journalist Sarah Mimms, in an <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/arizona-election-results-oan-reporters-fundraising" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">article published by BuzzFeed News</a> on May 18, examines the connection between OAN employees and the audit — which was ordered by Republicans in the Arizona State Senate and is being conducted by the <b>Florida-based firm Cyber Ninjas, whose founder Doug Logan is a far-right Trump supporters who pushed the former president's false claims of voter fraud in 2020.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Two reporters at One America News, a far-right TV station, are running a dark money organization that they say is helping fund a counter-reality 'audit' that former President Donald Trump and his supporters believe will overturn Arizona's 2020 election results in his favor," Mimms explains. "What's more, one of those reporters, Christina Bobb, is the network's most visible correspondent covering the very 'audit' that she is helping scare up money for on OAN's airwaves, while she and the network enjoy unique access to the process where private contractors and volunteers are searching for fraud and have examined ballots for nonexistent watermarks and 'bamboo fibers.' OAN has a deal as the exclusive livestream partner for the audit."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bobb hosts a program on OAN called "Weekly Briefing</b>," and Mimms points out that on April 9, she tweeted that she had founded a group devoted to promoting the audit: Voices and Votes. According to Bobb, the group raised $150,000 that day.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"According to its website," Mimms observes, "Voices and Votes is run by Bobb as the CEO and president, as well as OAN's White House correspondent Chanel Rion, who is listed as the chief marketing officer, and Courtland Sykes, Rion's fiancé, who is listed as the group's chief operations officer."</b>[twt dANGEROUSLY UNDERFUNDED"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">although the Maricopa County audit is being slammed as a joke by Trump's critics on both the left and the right, legitimate audits or recounts of the election results in Arizona have been conducted — and they showed that now-President J<b>oe Biden won Arizona fair and square. Biden's Arizona victory was reported by the decision desk at Fox News on Election Night 2020 and was later certified by conservative Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey.</b></font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mimms explains why the current </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maricopa County audit is a "farce," noting, "It's important to pause here and note that the audit itself is not really an audit at all. What happened is the Arizona Senate, which is controlled by 16 Republicans to 14 Democrats, sent a subpoena to Maricopa County — which was upheld by a judge, forcing the county to hand over 2.1 million ballots, </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as well as vote tabulators and a bunch of election data. The 'audit,' which is being run by outside contractors hired by the Senate, will have no force or effect on the 2020 election results; Joe Biden is president, and</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Arizona already did an audit of Maricopa County in the presidential race and didn't find a single ballot discrepancy. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The county itself, which is not involved in the current Senate audit either, also hired two independent firms to review its elections equipment in February, which came back clean as well."</span></font></p><div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="from-your-siteheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLES</font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.446px; list-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="from-your-siteitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/furious-trump-fans-are-now-boycotting-fox-news-after-tucker-carlsons-post-election-remarks/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">t<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">wo reporters at</span> One America News, a far-right TV station, are running a dark money organization that they say is helping fund a counter-reality “audit” that former president Donald Trump and his supporters believe will overturn Arizona’s 2020 election results in his favor.</font></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-text
xs-mb4 xs-relative " data-keywords="cleaning" data-module="subbuzz-text" id="mod-subbuzz-text-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2rem !important; position: relative !important;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s more, one of those reporters, Christina Bobb, is the network’s most visible correspondent covering the very “audit” that she is helping scare up money for on OAN’s airwaves, while she and the network enjoy unique access to the process where private contractors and volunteers are searching for fraud and have examined ballots for nonexistent watermarks and “bamboo fibers.” OAN has a deal as the exclusive livestream partner for the audit.</font></p></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-image
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" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.25rem 0px; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2; order: 1;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christina Bobb hosting her show <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Weekly Briefing</span> on OAN pix]</font></p></div></div></span></div></figure></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-text
xs-mb4 xs-relative " data-keywords="cleaning" data-module="subbuzz-text" id="mod-subbuzz-text-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2rem !important; position: relative !important;"><div id="127082423" class="subbuzz-anchor" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bobb has not made a secret of her work to keep that audit going. On April 9, she <a href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1380549835980484609?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">tweeted</a> that she’d founded a group called <b>Voices and Votes to help the Republican-led Arizona Senate complete its audit of the vote in Maricopa County. The group reached its $150,000 fundraising goal that same day, </b>according to Bobb, and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> she’s continued soliciting money for the audit since, both on <a href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1385742135471706112?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3945236" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">on air</a>.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to its website, Voices and Votes is run by Bobb as the CEO and president, as well as OAN’s White House correspondent Chanel Rion, who is listed as the chief marketing officer, and Courtland Sykes, Rion’s fiancé, who is listed as the group’s chief operations officer. The group’s website also says that Voices and Votes is registered as a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">501(c)(4) organization, meaning its donors will never be made public.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That also means that the group will never have to give an accounting of how much money it has raised or where that money actually went.</b> Bobb did not respond when BuzzFeed News asked how much Voices and Votes has brought in, but insisted that all of the money raised “has gone to the auditors.”<b> Cyber Ninjas, the firm leading the audit, and its CEO did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether it had received money from Voices and Votes.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">twt]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">it’s important to pause here and note that the audit itself is not really an audit at all. What happened is the Arizona Senate, which is controlled by 16 Republicans (to 14 Democrats) sent a subpoena to Maricopa County, which was upheld by a judge, forcing the county to hand over 2.1 million ballots, as well as vote tabulators and a bunch of election data. The “audit,” which is being run by outside contractors hired by the Senate, will have no force or effect on the 2020 election results; Joe Biden is president, and Arizona already did an audit of Maricopa County in the presidential race and <a href="https://azsos.gov/sites/default/files/2020_General_Maricopa_Hand_Count.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">didn’t find a single ballot discrepancy</a>. The county itself, which is not involved in the current Senate audit either, also hired two independent firms to <a href="https://www.maricopa.gov/5681/Elections-Equipment-Audit" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">review its elections equipment</a> in February, which came back clean as well.</font></p></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-text
xs-mb4 xs-relative " data-keywords="cleaning" data-module="subbuzz-text" id="mod-subbuzz-text-3" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2rem !important; position: relative !important;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Monday, Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors, which is majority Republican, wrote a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/maricopa-county-officials-letter-to-senate-president/b0f12bf1-4920-402e-8ea2-e49ed21a6b3d/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">scathing letter</a> to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, calling the audit a threat to democracy and telling her to end it.</b> “The Arizona Senate is not acting in good faith, has no intention of learning anything about the November 2020 General Election, but is only interested in feeding the various festering conspiracy theories that fuel the fundraising schemes of those pulling your strings. ... The result is that the Arizona Senate is held up to ridicule in every corner of the globe and our democracy is imperiled,” the board wrote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, as Bobb <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-joe-biden-not-legitimate-president-and-we-do-not-have-legitimate-exec" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">told her OAN audience a few weeks ago</a>, the new Senate audit will “unravel the Democrats' schemes from 2020” and Trump “will determine our next House and Senate” — whatever that means. In the same segment, she backtracked slightly, saying that “maybe” the audit would show there was no fraud. “Maybe,” she said, laughing, “Biden legitimately won Arizona.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Needless to say, no legitimate newsroom would allow its reporters to fundraise for an actual news event they’re covering. Nonetheless, Bobb has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3945231" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">continued soliciting donations</a> for Voices and Votes, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3945236" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">actively fundraising</a> to keep the story she is covering going. Bobb <a href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1387521894077788162" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">tweeted</a> as recently as April 28 that the audit isn’t “fully funded yet” and asked followers to “please help get this audit across the finish line!” That weekend she <a href="https://twitter.com/OANN/status/1387889229728870402?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">dedicated segments</a> of her <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Weekly Briefing</i> show to her reporting from the audit and an interview with the Arizona Republican Party chair.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">after reaching her $150,000 goal, Bobb announced the group’<b>s “second pledge,” this time without naming a monetary goal</b>, tweeting, “Let’s get this audit funded!” with a donation link.</font></p></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-text
xs-mb4 xs-relative " data-keywords="skincare" data-module="subbuzz-text" id="mod-subbuzz-text-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2rem !important; position: relative !important;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just a week later, the Arizona Republican Party <a href="https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1384738832302497798?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">tweeted</a> that OAN would be the exclusive livestreamer of the audit. The network now runs nine cameras 24/7 showing contractors examining the 2.1 million ballots. And Bobb herself has been there reporting on it for OAN the whole time, posting <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COjpWdKNLKz/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">photos</a> of herself alongside some of the architects of the audit and thanking those “true Patriots” for making it happen.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bobb and OAN are getting access to the audit that no other news outlets have, reporters on the ground say</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While reporters at other Arizona and national media outlets have had to rotate through a few select spots to cover the audit, Bobb and a writer with the Gateway Pundit, another pro-Trump outlet, are exempted from that pool. She reported live from the coliseum where the audit is taking place every day last week.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bobb disputed that she and OAN had received any “special treatment” in an email to BuzzFeed News on behalf of Voices and Votes. While she acknowledged that she had different access than members of the Arizona press corps, she said her access to cover the audit depended on “availability.” “I have been denied access at certain times and had to go on different days or at different times,” she wrote. “I am not permitted to attend whenever I want.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bobb also noted that OAN is not “in any way” affiliated with her fundraising group “other than allowing me to mention my efforts on air” and said the network “has not received anything as a result of Voices and Votes' donations.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I have openly and honestly disclosed all my efforts on air, and have handled the funds exactly as I said that I would,” she said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rion did not respond to requests for comment. Fann, the Senate president, deferred questions about OAN’s access to former Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett, who is serving as an audit liaison. Bennett did not respond to multiple requests.</b></font></p></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-image
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" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.25rem 0px; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2; order: 1;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN correspondent Chanel Rion asks then-president Donald Trump a question during a White House press briefing on April 6, 2020. pix ]</font></p></div></div></div></figure></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-text
xs-mb4 xs-relative " data-keywords="cleaning" data-module="subbuzz-text" id="mod-subbuzz-text-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2rem !important; position: relative !important;"><div id="127082423" class="subbuzz-anchor" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bobb noted <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COvjGecCOlG/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">last week</a> that Arizona senators won’t say what would happen if the audit does find “some type of fraud” — which won’t happen, because legitimate audits have already been conducted — and that senators have said this audit is about promoting trust in future elections, not about 2020. “They would not commit to saying that they would overturn anything, but they did say they were certainly taking a look at it,” she said, citing anonymous Arizona legislators.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>OAN did not respond to requests for comment on the conflict between Bobb and Rion’s work for their network and their affiliation with Voices and Votes or whether the network has a conflict-of-interest policy.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The audit itself has so far been a farce, enough so that one of the Republican state senators who voted for it <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/us/arizona-vote-count-republicans.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">told the New York Times</a> that in practice the audit is “ridiculous” and “makes us look like idiots.” At one point, workers were <a href="https://twitter.com/dennis_welch/status/1390014544890658819" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">checking for any traces of bamboo</a> in the ballot paper in a frankly stupid and racist attempt to test a conspiracy theory that thousands of illegal ballots were shipped in from Asia. They were <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/04/28/arizona-election-auditors-running-ballots-under-uv-light-why/4880548001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">shining UV lights on ballots</a> for reasons that <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/04/28/arizona-election-auditors-running-ballots-under-uv-light-why/4880548001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">weren’t really explained by officials at the time</a> but seemed to line up with <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/06/facebook-posts/did-president-trump-issue-secret-watermarks-ballot/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">a QAnon-adjacent theory</a> that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security had watermarked real ballots so the Democrats’ fraudulent ones could be easily found. That prompted the Maricopa County Elections Department to publicly <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZMARIC/bulletins/2d23bb7" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">post a fact check</a>: “There are NO watermarks on Maricopa County ballots.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Then there’s the firm that the Arizona Senate hired to run the whole thing, Cyber Ninjas, owned by Doug Logan. As the Arizona Mirror <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/03/31/arizona-senate-hires-a-stop-the-steal-advocate-to-lead-2020-election-audit/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">reported</a>, Logan repeatedly posted conspiracies about the election being stolen and falsehoods about Dominion Voting Systems on his since-deleted Twitter account</b>. Logan is also the author of a <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/09/arizona-audit-leader-doug-logan-wrote-fraud-claims-on-kraken-lawyers-website/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">three-page document of “election fraud facts”</a> posted to former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s website intended for senators to use in explaining why they would object to the election results and try to give the White House back to Trump, the Mirror also <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/09/arizona-audit-leader-doug-logan-wrote-fraud-claims-on-kraken-lawyers-website/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">reported</a>. Logan, it's worth noting, stood behind the document in a statement to the Mirror.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">His firm and three others are now <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/05/06/maricopa-county-audit-recruitment-ballot-counters-raises-partisan-concerns/4951442001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">paying contractors $15 an hour</a> and bringing in volunteers to examine the ballots — among them <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/05/14/former-arizona-lawmaker-anthony-kern-removed-maricopa-county-audit-recount/5096538001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">was</a> <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/04/30/ryan-randazzo-escorted-from-arizona-audit-site-after-tweet-former-state-rep-anthony-kern/4892470001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">a former state representative</a> who lost his 2020 race and was <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/05/05/where-was-anthony-kern-on-jan-6/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">also filmed on the Capitol steps during the Jan. 6 insurrection</a>. With the process <a href="https://twitter.com/JenAFifield/status/1393280631971344385?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">taking way longer than expected</a>, a big bill is coming and it’s unclear who is paying it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Arizona Senate only gave $150,000 in taxpayer money to the project</b>, which they knew was a laughable sum for an election audit of this size, and is allowing Cyber Ninjas to raise the rest from whoever. And several prominent Trump supporters have stepped up. Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who has peddled some of the <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/02/02/former-overstock-ceo/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">more out-there election conspiracy theories</a>, <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/05/03/what-arizona-election-audit-anonymous-donors-getting-for-donation/4926516001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">kicked in $1 million</a> and has his own dark money group raising funds, per the Arizona Republic. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-treasure-hunter-a-satanism-expert-and-mike-lindell-fight-to-overturn-biden-win-in-arizona" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the Daily Beast</a> that he had donated. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">And Lin Wood, an attorney who filed a bunch of lawsuits trying to overturn the election, told <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/arizona-audit-lin-wood-fundraising" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Talking Points Memo</a> and confirmed to BuzzFeed News that his 501(c)(4) #FightBack had donated to Bobb’s Voices and Votes</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, reporters at other outlets who are not paying for the audit had to fight to cover it at all. At one point, the Arizona Senate told media that they could only have access to the audit if they signed up for at least five six-hour shifts as volunteer observers. To be clear, they wouldn’t then get to report on the audit, their only access under this plan was as workers for the audit they were trying to cover. And, the Senate said, they could not bring laptops or cellphones or even a paper and pen with them. “People observing even executions are allowed to bring their notebooks in with them,” Arizona Capitol Times reporter Julia Shumway, who has since covered the audit, told BuzzFeed News.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shumway and her colleagues eventually did get press access to the audit, but only after the Arizona Mirror, the Arizona Republic, and the Arizona Broadcasters Association got lawyers involved. Now, reporters have to pool their resources with one print journalist, one videographer, and one photographer allowed into the audit at any given time, and they must be escorted, even to the bathroom, Shumway said. Meanwhile, Bobb and a reporter for the Gateway Pundit can report outside of the pool.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked about the discrepancy in treatment for OAN and the Gateway Pundit and every other news outlet, Fann <a href="https://azpbs.org/horizon/2021/05/why-the-az-senate-chose-cyber-ninjas-to-handle-the-audit/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">told</a> PBS that OAN was given livestreaming rights to the audit because “they have covered this from the beginning. They are one of the firms that came in right off the bat and said we will help do all the 24-hour video so everybody has access to this 24/7, that they wanted to be a part of it. So I don’t think that’s a bad idea. If there was another network had come up and said that first, we would have went with them probably.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>She later accused other, unnamed reporters of trespassing and said they had worried about too many members of the media “walk[ing] all over the place and tak[ing] pictures.” Asked if she had any similar concerns about OAN, she responded simply, “No, huh-uh. Nope.”</b> </font></p></div><div class="subbuzz subbuzz-correction-update
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" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.25rem 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Arizona Mirror, the Arizona Republic, and the Arizona Broadcasters Association brought the legal fight to get reporters access to the audit. A previous version of this story was unclear on who led the legal effort.</font></p></div></figcaption></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-host-christina-bobb-has-been-helping-rudy-giuliani-with-trumps-legal-efforts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s it seeks to overturn the election results and keep President-elect Joe Biden from assuming power, President Donald Trump’s legal team, fronted by lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-disavows-its-own-election-conspiracy-lawyer-sidney-powell" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">until recently</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sidney Powell, has been operating out of a conference room at the 2020 campaign’s downsized headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.</span></font></div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aiding Trump’s so-called “elite strike force” team in that effort has been an on-air host at One America News Network (OAN), a vociferously pro-Trump cable-news channel that has been endorsed by the president.</font></p><div class="teads-inread" style="overflow: hidden; transition: height 0.5s ease 0s; box-sizing: content-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto 16px; max-width: 690px; height: auto !important;"><div style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><div class="teads-ui-components-adchoices" style="cursor: pointer; position: absolute; top: 3px; right: 5px; width: 15px; height: 15px; line-height: 15px; padding: 1px; background: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% center / 15px 15px no-repeat; z-index: 1; margin-bottom: 0px !important;" /></div></div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Christina Bobb chairs the <em>Weekly Briefing</em> on OAN. She’s also a lawyer by trade. </b>And in recent days, she’s been spotted by several Trump officials at their office in the conference room with the rest of the president’s team. Her presence has caused a bit of confusion among actual campaign staff, who wondered if she was there to embed with the Trump legal “strike force” as a reporter.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But according to multiple knowledgeable sources, Bobb has actually been assisting the president’s long, long, <em>long</em>-shot legal effort—effectively taking on a secondary role as a pro-Trump lawyer even as she continues her job as a pro-Trump TV host.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Christina is an attorney and has helped with some legal work in her personal capacity and not on behalf of OAN,” Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump and his 2020 campaign, told The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon.</b></font></p><div class="mobiledoc-sizer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 40px 0px; min-height: 190px;"><section class="Fancylinks" data-nosnippet="" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><ul class="Fancylinkslist" style="list-style: none; margin: 40px auto 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; transform: translateX(-16px); width: calc(32px + 100%); box-shadow: rgba(2, 20, 32, 0.17) 0px 0px 4px;"><li class="FancylinksItem" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.2); padding: 16px 16px 16px 24px;"><div class="FancylinksItemcontainer" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><div class="FancylinksItemleft" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; width: calc(64px + ((100% - 112px) / 8) * 5);"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-year-of-batshit-crazy-at-one-america-news-trumps-new-favorite-cable-news-channel" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><div class="FancylinksItemtop-left" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-year-of-batshit-crazy-at-one-america-news-trumps-new-favorite-cable-news-channel" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><h3 class="FancylinksItemshort-headline" style="font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.5px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 28px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal;"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-year-of-batshit-crazy-at-one-america-news-trumps-new-favorite-cable-news-channel" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Year of Batsh*t at OAN, Trump’s New Favorite Channel</font></a></h3><div class="Rubric Rubric--tilted" style="position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="Rubriccontent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal; border-left: 1px solid rgb(240, 6, 6); border-right: 1px solid rgb(240, 6, 6); display: inline-block; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 6px; position: relative; z-index: 1; transform: rotate(-3deg);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ONE AMERICA, UNDER TRUMP</font></div></div></div><div class="FancylinksItembottom-left" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><div class="FancylinksItemauthor" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 12px;"><div class="DEPRECATEDByline DEPRECATEDByline--horizontal DEPRECATEDByline--small" style="display: inline-flex; flex-flow: row wrap; white-space: pre;"><a class="TrackingLink DEPRECATEDBylineauthor" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/justin-baragona" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: block;" /><h4 class="DEPRECATEDBylineauthor-name" style="letter-spacing: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: 16px; text-transform: capitalize; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a class="TrackingLink DEPRECATEDBylineauthor" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/justin-baragona" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justin Baragona</font></a></h4></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul></section></div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Such an arrangement would be absolutely unthinkable in other newsrooms. But OAN’s editorial stance is so committedly pro-Trump that it almost, <em>almost</em> makes sense.</b> Bobb certainly hasn’t hidden her feelings for the president or his current legal endeavors. Even when compared to the output of other OAN on-air staff, she has shown intense commitment to the premise that Trump actually won the election that he clearly lost.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bobb’s Twitter feed is clogged with baseless claims of fraud and grand proclamations about Trump’s <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1330304640483807233" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">chances</a> of <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1328841050824306689" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">overturning</a> the election results and <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1329753915668242438" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">securing</a> a <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1329615778220560384" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">second presidential term</a>. During on-air segments, she has suggested that there was indeed a “massive amount” of voter fraud both in Trump’s election and potentially in others, including former Republican candidate Kim Klacik’s race in Maryland (she <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/down-ballot-republican-losers-blame-voter-fraud-too" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">lost</a> her race in a heavily Democratic district by over 40 percentage points).</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In recent segments about the Trump campaign’s legal efforts, Bobb has not disclosed that she has been an informal consultant to those very same efforts.</b></font></p><div class="teads-inread" style="overflow: hidden; transition: height 0.5s ease 0s; box-sizing: content-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto 16px; max-width: 690px; height: auto !important;"><div style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><div class="teads-ui-components-adchoices" style="cursor: pointer; position: absolute; top: 3px; right: 5px; width: 15px; height: 15px; line-height: 15px; padding: 1px; background: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% center / 15px 15px no-repeat; z-index: 1; margin-bottom: 0px !important;" /></div></div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During her weekend show, she interviewed Ellis—her current legal collaborator—about recent developments in the campaign’s challenges to election results in several states. But she did not note during the segment that she had any sort of role in the campaign’s legal fight. <b>On Twitter, Bobb has cheered on the Trump legal team, even <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1329894241372397574" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">praising</a> its performance in a press conference in which such wild conspiracies were spun about voting corruption that the <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/23/trump-fears-giuliani-and-other-biden-vote-challenge-lawyers-are-fools.html" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">president himself reportedly</a> thought it too far fetched. Once more, she never disclosed that she has been working with that team.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since Friday, Bobb has not responded to multiple messages seeking comment on this story. Reached by phone on Monday, network founder and president Charles Herring <b>declined to comment</b> on his employee’s activity with the Trump legal team, requesting The Daily Beast email him instead. He did not respond to an email.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bobb’s cozy relationship with the president’s legal team may be the most brazen example of the cozy relationship Trump and his campaign have maintained with members of conservative media</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. But it’s hardly the first.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As The Daily Beast reported in 2018, the president has regularly consulted with Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs, who <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-cherishes-lou-dobbs-so-much-he-puts-him-on-speakerphone-for-oval-office-meetings" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">would call in to private Oval Office meetings</a> and advise the White House informally on various policies</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The president also regularly canvases his friends in conservative media about administration policy and messaging, phoning Fox News stars like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and hosting Fox personality Laura Ingraham at the White House to </span><a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-fox-guests-met-with-trump-to-tout-unproven-covid-19-drug-hydroxychloroquine-report-says" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">advocate</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.</span></font></p><div class="mobiledoc-sizer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 40px 0px; min-height: 190px;"><section class="Fancylinks" data-nosnippet="" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><ul class="Fancylinkslist" style="list-style: none; margin: 40px auto 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; transform: translateX(-16px); width: calc(32px + 100%); box-shadow: rgba(2, 20, 32, 0.17) 0px 0px 4px;"><li class="FancylinksItem" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.2); padding: 16px 16px 16px 24px;"><div class="FancylinksItemcontainer" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><div class="FancylinksItemleft" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; width: calc(64px + ((100% - 112px) / 8) * 5);"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-disavows-its-own-election-conspiracy-lawyer-sidney-powell" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><div class="FancylinksItemtop-left" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-disavows-its-own-election-conspiracy-lawyer-sidney-powell" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><h3 class="FancylinksItemshort-headline" style="font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.5px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 28px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal;"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-disavows-its-own-election-conspiracy-lawyer-sidney-powell" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump Campaign Disavows Its Own Election-Conspiracy Lawyer</font></a></h3><div class="Rubric Rubric--tilted" style="position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="Rubriccontent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal; border-left: 1px solid rgb(240, 6, 6); border-right: 1px solid rgb(240, 6, 6); display: inline-block; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 6px; position: relative; z-index: 1; transform: rotate(-3deg);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">NO LONGER OURS</font></div></div></div><div class="FancylinksItembottom-left" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><div class="FancylinksItemauthor" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 12px;"><div class="DEPRECATEDByline DEPRECATEDByline--horizontal DEPRECATEDByline--small" style="display: inline-flex; flex-flow: row wrap; white-space: pre;"><a class="TrackingLink DEPRECATEDBylineauthor" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/lachlan-markay" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: block;" /><h4 class="DEPRECATEDBylineauthor-name" style="letter-spacing: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: 16px; text-transform: capitalize; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a class="TrackingLink DEPRECATEDBylineauthor" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/lachlan-markay" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lachlan Markay</font></a></h4></div></div></div></div><div class="FancylinksItemright" style="align-items: center; display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; margin-left: 16px; width: calc(32px + ((100% - 112px) / 8) * 3);">
</div></div></li></ul></section></div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other news networks have allowed their personalities to dip their toes into partisan political activity, though to varying degrees. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the 2020 election, CNN contributor Ana Navarro <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/08/08/cable-news-paid-contributors-political-campaigns/" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">hosted</a> a virtual fundraiser for Biden,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a move that the network said did not violate their policies because she was not paid. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">High-profile on-air personality Van Jones <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-van-jones-secretly-helped-craft-the-weak-trump-police-reform-he-praised-on-tv" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">also</a> advised Jared Kushner on the police-reform executive order signed by Trump earlier this year.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To avoid conflicts of interest, news networks generally do not allow their on-air contributors to endorse or run for office or work on political campaigns or political action committees while appearing as a paid analyst. Over the past month, <b>since Joe Biden’s election, MSNBC <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-cuts-loose-two-more-contributors-with-biden-transition-ties" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">has cut ties with at least four contributors</a> who have taken advisory roles in the president-elect’s transition effort.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But OAN stands out in its on-air fealty to Trump, even when compared to the standards observed by its competitors in pro-MAGA right-wing media.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two days before Election Day, The Daily Beast asked OAN president Charles Herring if the network would call the election for Trump if the president, as he had planned to do, declared victory preemptively. Herring responded by messaging a lengthy statement that included, “OAN is a subscriber to the Associated Press’ Votecast data and Votecount elections results technology," and that for "Winner Projections," the network "will be utilizing primarily Associated Press’ Votecast data and Votecount." (The statement also references the “expert analysis” provided by “Christina Bobb, host of <em>Weekly Briefing</em>.”)</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In propping up an alternate media universe in which Trump didn’t lose, OAN is ignoring its own system of data collection. The AP has long since called the 2020 presidential election for Biden.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/journalists-blast-one-america-news-series-giuliani-087893">https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/journalists-blast-one-america-news-series-giuliani-087893</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 1.875rem 1.875rem 0px;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story summary-middle" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; border: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-top: 0.625rem;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="story-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; line-height: 1.2;"><div class="story-metaauthors-timestamp has-social-tools " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.46875rem; letter-spacing: 0.1rem; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-pack: justify; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="story-metadetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;"><p class="story-metaauthors" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/staff/michael-calderone" target="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MICHAEL CALDERONE</font></a></span></p><p class="story-metatimestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><time datetime="2019-12-19 11:22:17" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">12/19/2019</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></time></p></div></div></div><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upstart conservative network One America News’ decision to turn over three hours this week to Rudy Giuliani’s conspiracy theories gleaned from his trip to Ukraine found a receptive audience in the White House — less so in major newsrooms and TV studios.</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Wednesday that Giuliani brought back “dirt of questionable credibility” from his trip with a reporter from a “far-right fringe cable channel.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> On MSNBC, national security correspondent Ken Dilanian said Giuliani floated a “bogus conspiracy theory” about Joe Biden on OAN, a network “which makes Fox News look like PBS.” The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/16/one-america-newss-ukraine-rudy-giuliani-expose-is-stunning-piece-propaganda/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">labeled</a> the OAN series “a stunning piece of propaganda.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">charles Herring, president of One America News, shot back in an email to POLITICO. “We recognize that some ‘media’ outlets won’t acknowledge proven facts and won’t do their own time consuming and costly investigate work if the facts don’t fit their narrative,” he wrote. “This is simply a part of our media landscape today.”</font></p></div></div></div></div><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story hide-under-small" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 18.75rem; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><aside class="story-enhancement" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="pol-02-wrap" class="content-group ad is-loaded" aria-label="Advertisement" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; margin: 0px auto;" /></aside></div></div></section><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story main-section" data-content-section="4" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 1.875rem auto 0px; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 0px 1.875rem;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally hide-under-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 18.75rem; border: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But for much of the media world, OAN’s decision to give Giuliani a direct role in preparing its Ukraine report presents a troubling ethical development in the media landscape</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Where once opinion shows began supplanting traditional news, now openly partisan content — presented largely unfiltered by the president’s personal attorney — is seeking to supplant content that’s opinionated but still independent.</span></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Trump has celebrated OAN’s willingness to take his largely unfiltered line, retweeting several clips from the <a href="https://www.oann.com/oaninvestigates/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">three-part OAN series</a> this week in making his public case against impeachment. That’s come as he continues to carp at Fox News over its <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1206289904470233088" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">polling</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1206003487076749313" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">bookings</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1206012960285642753" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">suggested</a> that<b> only its “pro Trump Fox shows do well.”</b></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump has displayed no similar frustrations with OAN, which promised in the three-hour series to dismantle House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff’s impeachment case,</b> and, like the president, framed the proceedings as a hoax. [some gop rep at rnc called it "illegal"?] But while the series features many of the storytelling attributes of a news documentary, media experts say it departs from traditional journalism in giving such a prominent role to the president’s personal attorney.</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think this completely crosses a line,” said professor Kathleen Culver, director for journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I would define one of the central characteristics of journalism as independence and here there is no independence. It is taking a source and bringing that source into the actual information gathering,” she said. <b>“By making Giuliani a central figure in the gathering of information,” she added, “I think they’ve moved out of the realm of journalism and into the realm of advocacy."</b></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, said “the advocate is in the driver’s seat” in the OAN series, with Giuliani bringing forth documents on screen and helping conduct interviews. “<b>The role typically played by an investigative journalist is played by Rudy Giuliani,” he said.</b></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story main-section" data-content-section="12" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 1.875rem auto 0px; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 0px 1.875rem;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Herring did not respond directly to a question about about OAN’s independence with regard to Giuliani’s involvement in the project. But OAN correspondent Chanel Rion told viewers why her team took Trump’s attorney along to Ukraine and Budapest.</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“His hundreds of hours and months of research into what he calls the great political scandal of our time made him the only person to go with us on this trip,” she said of Giuliani. Rion told viewers that <b>their findings would “both astound and enrage” and offer a side kept from viewers by a “complacent media.”</b></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Herring family, which made a fortune printing circuit boards, is a fairly new entrant to the media business.</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The company launched lifestyle channel Wealth TV, later renamed AWE, in 2004, and created One America News in 2013.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The San Diego-based network, which is <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/story/2019-09-26/one-america-news-san-diego" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">reportedly available</a> in about 35 million homes — compared with at least 90 million for Fox News — generally covers the major headlines of the day without excessive punditry and turns to conservative hosts at night.</span></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But OAN's pro-Trump leanings became apparent during the 2016 election, as it turned to his rallies live, and have continued into the presidency</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/an-inside-look-at-one-america-news-the-insurgent-tv-network-taking-pro-trump-to-new-heights/2017/07/05/7475f0a4-4fa2-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">reported</a> in a 2017 profile of OAN that CEO and founder Robert Herring “directed his channel to push Trump’s candidacy” and “steer away from the new president’s troubles.”</span></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charles Herring disputed the notion that his father takes such a heavy hand in news coverage. “<b>News anchors are not allowed to express opinions,” he told the Post. “They simply deliver the news and we leave it up to the viewers to decide</b>. It’s not our family’s mission to determine the news.”</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Twitter, Robert Herring’s views are clear. “Our ratings are going up because we treat you like you are the President of the United States,” Herring <a href="https://twitter.com/RobHerring/status/1127926932077547520" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">responded</a> to Trump when touting OAN’s ratings. “Your ratings are going up because you are doing a great job. Let’s keep it up!”</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As Trump visited San Diego in September, Herring <a href="https://twitter.com/RobHerring/status/1174732209388802049" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">pointed out</a> to the president that OAN “ran a 30-minute special report detailing the accomplishments you have made."</b></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="0-7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The network’s official Twitter account, however, once <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/436553-conservative-outlet-complains-about-lack-of-trump-shout-out-at-rally" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">called</a> “bullshit” when Trump didn’t mention OAN among his media boosters. </b>“President Trump recently gave a speech, thanking his supporters in the media. Not a single mention of One America News — one of his GREATEST supporters,” read the tweet, which, according to a Guardian <a href="http://read/" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">report</a>, was sent by Robert Herring. Earlier this month, he <a href="https://twitter.com/RobHerring/status/1202711973881737216" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">tweeted</a>: “If you are upset about the Democrats trying to impeach President Trump, let everyone know by putting an @OANN sticker on your car!”</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story main-section" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 1.875rem auto 0px; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 0px 1.875rem;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump has returned the affection. He <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1182288206806560769" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">tweeted</a> in October that OAN “is appreciated by many people trying so hard to find a new, consistent and powerful VOICE!” and last month <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1191028748818116608?lang=en" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">lauded </a>the network for “seeking the facts and the truth.” Trump retweeted at least five clips from the OAN series this past week.</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Herring told POLITICO that OAN is “very appreciative of all our viewers and the support and encouragement they extend to us via comments on our feedback page and tweets/retweets — including from a special viewer in the White House.”</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The testimony of current and former officials, along with Trump’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/trump-ukraine-phone-call-transcript-text-pdf-1510770" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">own</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/03/donald-trump-china-should-investigate-bidens-024697" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">words</a>, has shown that he urged Ukraine’s president to launch investigations into the Bidens and a 2016 election conspiracy theory as the U.S. withheld aid to Ukraine. The allegations from an unnamed whistleblower, which ignited the scandal, have been largely confirmed, as <b>PolitiFact concluded Monday in <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/dec/16/lie-of-the-year-donald-trump-whistleblower-wrong/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">giving</a> Trump its “Lie of the Year” award.</b></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rion told viewers OAN was holding "our own hearing" where they'd be the jury. The OAN team and Giuliani, she said, will present a side “<b>that not only destroys Adam Schiff’s case for impeachment, but uncovers what may be one of the greatest cover-ups of our time."</b></font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in the series, Giuliani makes the unsubstantiated allegation that Biden committed “bribery” in calling for the removal of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin because his son Hunter Biden served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. Biden’s request at the time was the view of the Obama administration, which, like several Western nations and international organizations, saw Shokin as not aggressively prosecuting corruption cases.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story main-section" data-content-section="18" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 1.875rem auto 0px; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 0px 1.875rem;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="1-0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" data-content-child-index="1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rion and Giuliani traveled abroad to interview Shokin, as well as Yuriy Lutsenko, whom The New Yorker <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/23/the-ukrainian-prosecutor-behind-trumps-impeachment" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">dubbed</a> in an extensive profile this week as a key Giuliani contact. They also met in a studio with Ukrainian “witnesses” alleging corruption involving Democrats. (The Daily Beast’s Anna Nemtsova <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giulianis-ukraine-investigation-on-oan-stars-some-kyivs-most-dubious-characters?ref=scroll" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">wrote</a> the OAN investigation features “some of Kyiv’s most dubious characters”)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story main-section" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 1.875rem auto 0px; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 0px 1.875rem;"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Herring said over email that “One America News is seeking the truth regarding Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 Presidential election</b>” and that “the best way to determine what happened in Ukraine is via interviews with first hand witnesses and a thorough review of the support documentation.” He suggested that “there is an effort to keep the ‘lid on the jar’ regarding corruption that traces back to the United States.”</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We appreciate the efforts by others to shed light on the facts, including first hand witnesses, other investigative reporters and media outlets, and politicians,” he added.</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One prominent senator indicated Sunday that he’s interested in hearing about Giuliani’s Ukraine trip. On CBS’ “Face the Nation,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” Lindsey Graham <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-lindsey-graham-says-house-democrats-weaponizing-impeachment-this-whole-thing-is-a-crock/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation;">said</a>, "Rudy, if you want to come and tell us what you found I'd be glad to talk to you.”</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p></div></div><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-vertically right-zone hide-under-small" aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 18.75rem; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="story-enhancement is-hidden-offscreen is-right-zone" id="aside-0" data-aside-index="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Russian intelligence agency behind 2016’s election attacks is training its sights on billionaire financier George Soros, The Daily Beast has learned. The move comes hot on the heels of a surge in U.S.-focused hacking by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate with similarities to 2016 in targeting and methodology. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura Silber, chief communications officer for Soros’ Open Society Foundations, confirmed a hack attempt, but couldn’t identify the culprit or provide additional details over the weekend. “We were aware of an attack,” Silber told the Daily Beast.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">last month Microsoft quietly seized a new batch of 10 deceptive domain names the company says were set up by the hackers known as <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-finally-solves-mysteries-about-russias-fancy-bear-hackers" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Fancy Bear</a>, the group intelligence officials and independent analysts have long attributed to Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, the GRU. Those web addresses imitate genuine domains used for Microsoft services like Sharepoint, an unmistakable sign that they were intended for use in phishing attacks, in which a victim is tricked into typing their password into a fake login page. </font></p><section class="Fancylinks" data-nosnippet="" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul class="Fancylinkslist" style="list-style: none; margin: 40px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; transform: translateX(-16px); width: calc(32px + 100%); box-shadow: rgba(2, 20, 32, 0.17) 0px 0px 4px;"><li class="FancylinksItem" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.2); padding: 16px 16px 16px 24px;"><div class="FancylinksItemcontainer" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><div class="FancylinksItemleft" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; width: calc(64px + ((100% - 112px) / 8) * 5);"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-finally-solves-mysteries-about-russias-fancy-bear-hackers" style="background-color: transparent; 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</font></font></div></div></li></ul></section><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One domain targets a Singapore-based investment firm, and another references the Berlin anti-corruption organization Transparency International, which Russia has targeted before. Others are generic or ambiguous in their targeting. But one seized domain, soros-my-sharepoint[.]com, jumps out as a clear reference to Soros, a past GRU target from Russia’s 2016 election interference. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>An additional four phishing domains registered in the same time frame appear to target Soros’ Open Society Foundations,</b> said Kyle Ehmke, an intelligence researcher at the Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect. Those domains haven’t been seized and ThreatConnect hasn’t found enough evidence to definitively link them to the Russian hackers, said Ehmke. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Kremlin’s targeting of Soros and his organization carries echoes of 2016, when the GRU dumped 2,500 files stolen from the Open Society Foundations for the debut of “DC Leaks”, the fake leak site the spies created for their 2016 election interference campaign. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“SOROS INTERNAL FILES – BIG DATA”, the site announced at the time.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the stolen files were <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html" data-ml-dynamic="true" data-ml-dynamic-type="vg" data-orig-url="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html" data-ml-id="0" data-ml="true" data-xid="fr1591722773267ibh" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reportedly</a> altered to create the appearance that Soros was secretly financing Russian opposition candidates, making the leak politically useful to Vladmir Putin. More importantly, the Soros dump earned DC Leaks instant credibility in American right-wing circles, where the 88-year-old Hungarian-American philanthropist plays the role of villainous global puppet-master in countless conspiracy theories. </font></p><div id="x33x15293340684162997" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: sticky;"><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Russia’s <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-troll-farm-internet-research-agency-has-new-meta-trolling-propaganda-campaign" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Internet Research Agency</a>—the so-called “troll farm, later indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller—pushed the same trope on its Facebook and Instagram feeds in the run-up to election day</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. One meme featured a close-up of Soros against a backdrop of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">anti-Trump picketers. “No lives matter for those who sponsoring [sic] anti Trump protests,” the caption read. Another imagined Soros confronting the late Senator John McCain. “Hey Johnny, I’m paying you a fortune. I don’t care how much cancer you have, get back to DC and backstab Trump.”</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Soros targeting comes in the wave of what one expert describes as a fresh wave of Fancy Bear attempts against political nonprofits in the U.S. that ran from last December to March or April of this year, using similar tactics to the mass phishing campaign that famously ensnared Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief in 2016. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s a similar type of activity to what hit Podesta,” said Robert Johnston, the former Marine Corp captain who investigated the 2016 DNC breach, and now heads the financial cybersecurity firm Adlumin. “These were against political organizations and NGOs. 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</font></font></div></div></li></ul></section><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2016 Microsoft <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/microsoft-pushes-to-take-over-russian-spies-network" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">sued Fancy Bear</a> in federal court in Virginia and won, unopposed, an injunction allowing the company to seize any web addresses registered by the GRU’s hackers that imitate a Microsoft product or service. The company has seized over 100 domains so far.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experts caution that Russia’s hackers have always cast a wide net, and there’s no way to tell what their motives are in revisiting old haunts now. It may be pure intelligence gathering, or the opening salvo of a 2020 election interference campaign.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We don't know whether they are ultimately looking to compromise targets for influence operations, internal intelligence uses, or both,” said Ehmke.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Either way, Russia likely views its 2016 efforts as a success, and is certain to try for an encore. “I think you should absolutely anticipate a very vocal Russian interference in the 2020 elections,” said Johnston.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ernest Champell realized there was something unusual about One America News Network during his first day on the job as a writer, when the young staffer assigned to show him the ropes announced matter-of-factly, <b>“Yeah, we like Russia here.”</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founded and helmed by 77-year-old circuit-board millionaire Robert Herring Sr., OANN launched in 2013 as an answer to the chatty, opinionated content of mainstream cable news channels—and a place for viewers too conservative for Fox News. Under Herring’s direction the network embraced Trumpism enthusiastically starting in 2016, and in recent months the once-obscure cable news channel has been basking in a surge of attention from Donald Trump.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nearly all of OANN’s 24-hours of daily programming is centered at an anchordesk, with a polished TV anchor delivering headlines and introducing packaged segments in the time-honored manner of Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite. But there’s a twist: <b>The segments, the interviews, the words the anchors are speaking and even the crawl at the bottom of the screen are a slurry of fake news mixed with genuine reporting; internet conspiracy theories blended with far-right rhetoric and drizzled with undiluted Kremlin propaganda.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you don’t live in a world where Donald Trump’s inauguration drew record crowds, Roy Moore <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/365040-conservative-news-outlet-called-alabama-race-for-moore" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">won the Alabama special election</a> in a landslide, and Hillary Clinton has her political enemies assassinated, viewing OANN for a couple of hours is a surreal experience that inspires the same vague, uneasy dread you get from a David Lynch movie.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Working there is a million times worse.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It was a really bad chapter in my life,” a former OANN anchor told the Daily Beast in an interview granted on condition of anonymity. “There were lots of afternoons where I would just sit in the car and cry. I didn't understand why they were doing what they were doing.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Daily Beast spoke with four former OANN employees—three anchors and a writer, all of whom were experienced journalists when they started at the network’s headquarters on the northern edge of San Diego, California. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of them were at OANN long enough to remember a time when they found much to admire in the network’s news coverage, particularly its focus on the kind of international stories neglected by CNN and Fox News.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But<b> over time, Herring asserted increasingly direct control over the newsroom’s coverage. The scripts landing on the anchor desk became more and more politically skewed, while Herring became correspondingly less tolerant of pushback.</b></font></p><section class="Fancylinks" data-nosnippet="" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul class="Fancylinkslist" style="list-style: none; margin: 40px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; transform: translateX(-16px); width: calc(32px + 100%); box-shadow: rgba(2, 20, 32, 0.17) 0px 0px 4px;"><li class="FancylinksItem" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.2); padding: 16px 16px 16px 24px;"><div class="FancylinksItemcontainer" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><div class="FancylinksItemleft" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; width: calc(64px + ((100% - 112px) / 8) * 5);"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; 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</font></font></font></font></div></div></li></ul></section><div id="x33x15293340684162997" tynt-data="target" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: sticky;"><div class="tynt-viewability" style="position: relative !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;"><div tynt-data="no-content" class="tynt-ad-fence tynt-ad-fence-startpos-left"><div id="tynt-ad-fs1w6f3b" class="tynt-ad-container"><div class="tynt-infeed tynt-not-viewable" style="width: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; position: relative; float: left; clear: both;"><p class="tynt-close-btn" hs-name="Close Button" style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px; cursor: pointer;" /><div class="tynt-ad-frame-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0; position: relative; transform: translateZ(0px);"><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When interviewing conservatives, “they would tell me what questions I wasn’t allowed to ask,” said one anchor. "I'd ask anyway and they'd call me into the office and complain." And it became common for Herring to emerge from his upstairs office with some piece of <b>news he’d picked up from a fringe website like Infowars or Gateway Pundit, insisting that OANN put it on the air.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A second former OANN anchor confirmed this account. “One of the things I did when I was there is go through all these conspiracies he was r<b>eading on crazy blog sites</b> and tell him why we can't report it,” the second anchor told the Daily Beast.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“It was just an old guy with a bunch of conspiracy theory stories and we had to write it,” said a third former anchor. “They were known as ‘H stories.’ If there was story that was unbelievably ridiculous, it was an H story.”</b></font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">All three anchors eventually quit.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">not all of OANN’s issues involved on-the-air content. Jonathan Harris, a frequent guest on Fox News, filed a discrimination and harassment lawsuit last year against OANN, naming as co-defendants Herring and Graham Ledger, who hosts a political talk show on the network called The Daily Ledger.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Harris started at OANN in 2014. According to his lawsuit, his problems began in August 2016 when he was promoted to booking producer for Ledger’s show. Ledger “would regularly berate, demean and verbally abuse” Harris over his liberal politics and his “opinions and perspectives as an African-American male,” according to the allegations in Harris’ lawsuit. “On at least three separate occasions, Ledger made blatantly racist comments about people of ‘non-caucasian’ races,” the lawsuit alleges.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fearing retaliation if he complained, Harris stayed silent, he alleges, until the situation boiled over during an August 2017 story meeting. Ledger and the production staff began discussing future show topics, and Ledger suggested doing a segment “comparing the tearing down of confederate monuments by American demonstrators to the destruction of Christian religious monuments by members of the group ISIS.”</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harris, the only black man in the room, argued that the comparison was unfair and that “OANN’s viewers might find it inappropriate,” he claims. According to the lawsuit, Ledger immediately unloaded on Harris, berating him and screaming at him in front of the other three producers. After the meeting Harris typed out a formal complaint of harassment and discrimination and emailed it to Herring, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that Harris was fired shortly afterwards on a pretext.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Emails from The Daily Beast to an OANN executive and to a personal email address associated with Ledger went unanswered, but in a formal answer to the complaint, the defendants “deny generally and specifically each and every allegation contained” in Harris’ lawsuit. The trial is currently set for October.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most of the complaints voiced by former OANN journalists return to Herring’s control over the news agenda.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Champell was working as a freelance video producer when he got into a random conversation with an OANN manager while grabbing a cup of coffee at a San Diego Starbucks. That contact led to a job offer, he told the Daily Beast.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A glance at some of OANN’s content told Champell that it was a conservative-leaning operation. An avowed liberal, Champell voiced some concerns, but the manager told him not to worry. “He said, ‘When we do the news it's straight no-nonsense,’” said Champell. “I learned that was a lie within a week.”</font></font></font></p><section class="Fancylinks" data-nosnippet="" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul class="Fancylinkslist" style="list-style: none; margin: 40px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; transform: translateX(-16px); width: calc(32px + 100%); box-shadow: rgba(2, 20, 32, 0.17) 0px 0px 4px;"><li class="FancylinksItem" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.2); padding: 16px 16px 16px 24px;"><div class="FancylinksItemcontainer" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><div class="FancylinksItemleft" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; width: calc(64px + ((100% - 112px) / 8) * 5);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-tv-channel-oan-has-a-comedy-show-so-terrible-it-might-actually-be-funny" style="background-color: transparent; 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</font></font></font></font></div></div></li></ul></section><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Champell arrived at a time when OANN had fully embraced fake news. "I was there when we were doing the <b>Seth Rich </b>story,” he said, referring to the <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-report-julian-assange-smeared-seth-rich-to-cover-for-russians" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">slain Democratic National Committee</a> staffer falsely accused by conspiracy mongers of hacking the DNC’s emails and giving them to WikiLeaks. “I was like, ‘This is fake! What are you doing? Why are you running this?’" </font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At first Champell found the newsroom dynamic weirdly fascinating. "They would do hit jobs on politicians,” he said. “Herring would come into the newsroom and say, I want a negative piece about this person.” But Champell couldn’t stomach OANN’s <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">support for Russian propaganda</a>, he said, and he finally walked away after four months.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If you noticed, the far right wing likes Russia,” he said. “Why? Because Russia's an all-white country that suppresses Muslims and all that kind of stuff. They wish America was like that, so it all makes sense."</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Mr. Herring just genuinely is kind of enamored of Putin,” another former staffer said. “He thinks that Putin is a strong guy who does whatever he wants. Mr. Herring will get into the celebrity status of wealthy powerful men, and I think Putin is one of them."</b></font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That same drive explains why Herring insists that OANN stories lavish praise on Trump, and why OANN airs all of the president’s rallies live, said the former employee.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If OANN is all about getting Donald Trump’s attention, it’s finally working. After snubbing the network for two years in his frequent media-focused tweet storms,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Trump is now mentioning the channel regularly. In a <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1127890323055742976" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">tweet</a> on Monday, he congratulated the network “on the great job you are doing and the big ratings jump.”</span></font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I bet that just makes Mr Herring so happy,” said the former worker. “That was the goal all along. He wanted to be mentioned by Donald Trump.”</font></font></font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/heres-the-outrageous-oan-segment-that-led-trump-to-falsely-smear-a-75-year-old-protestor-as-an-antifa-provocateur/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/heres-the-outrageous-oan-segment-that-led-trump-to-falsely-smear-a-75-year-old-protestor-as-an-antifa-provocateur/</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">also 70 yr old head wound via oann;</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">here’s the outrageous OAN segment that led Trump to falsely smear a 75-year-old protestor as an ‘Antifa provocateur’</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Image via Screengrab.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Buffalo police have been widely criticized for a disturbing incident in which a 75-year-old George Floyd protestor, Martin Gugino, was violently shoved to the ground. And now — based on reporting by the right-wing cable news outlet One America News President Donald Trump — is smearing the man as an “Antifa provocateur.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>OANN or OAN prides itself on being more pro-Trump than Fox News, which Trump has criticized at times for not being consistently supportive of him. Here’s the segment the network aired on Gugino.</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eugene Daniels</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">@EugeneDaniels2</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here's that OANN report that led to the president's tweet. </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Embedded video</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">20</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6:16 AM - Jun 9, 2020</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">29 people are talking about this</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trump tweeted, “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Donald J. Trump</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">@realDonaldTrump</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">76.7K</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5:34 AM - Jun 9, 2020</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Twitter Ads info and privacy</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">102K people are talking about this</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gugino is still hospitalized because of the injuries he suffered. Two Buffalo police officers, Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe, have been charged with assault.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">----</font></font></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KRISTIAN ROUZ (ONE AMERICA NEWS): The U.S. intelligence agencies are continuing a probe into the origins of COVID-19 amid mounting evidence of a globalist conspiracy to establish sweeping population control. The virus has treated devastating lockdowns across the advanced economies and in this situation, experts say whoever controls the cure may control the future of humanity.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And while the media, Democrats, and the deep state continue to dismiss hydroxychloroquine as a likely cure, they are pushing for a failed Ebola drug remdesivir instead. </font></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIP</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JUDY MIKOVITS: When you take away a medicine -- and not just the WHO, not just the WHO -- the FDA, the CDC, Tony Fauci closed everything ... because we can take all that money they're making on their patents and we can give it to the victims of this plague of corruption.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIP ENDS</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ROUZ: Recent reports claim the remdesivir patent is controlled by mainland China, Bill Gates, and the WHO, while the Clintons may have a stake in its as well.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The entire cover-up is allegedly backed by globalist billionaire George Soros. Such allegations have been dismissed by the mainstream media and China as a conspiracy theory, saying <b>California-based Gilead owns the patent for remdesivir</b>. But, Gilead itself was reported as saying if it uses its own drug, it's would get into legal trouble with China.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ROUZ: China reportedly holds part of the remdesivir patent through the UN agency Unitaid, whose main donor since 2006 is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</b> Separately, the Clinton Foundation also worked with Unitaid on the $100 million dollar project to study HIV/AIDS in the past. Unitaid also has offices near the Chinese bio-weapons lab in Wuhan, which top Republicans suspect was funded by none other than Dr, Anthony Fauci and the NIH.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIP</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RUDY GIULIANI: That was fooling around with this virus. .... Despite that, Dr. Fauci gave $3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory. We paid for it. We paid for the damn virus that's killing us.</font></b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIP ENDS</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ROUZ: The coronavirus conspiracy gained further evidence when Democratic Party officials openly sided with the Chinese Communist Party to denounce hydroxychloroquine as a likely cure</b>. Chloroquine was developed in Germany in the 1930s and most of it is made by German drugmaker <b>Bayer, which recently gave the U. S. millions of pills for free to battle COVID-19.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Some say</b> Democrats attack the drug only because President Trump spoke in support of it, but others point to a foreign trade aspect of it, saying Democrats want to get the COVID cure from China, not Germany or the EU.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIP</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ANTI-SOCIAL DISTANCING DEMONSTRATOR: This is not about COVID or about a virus. This is about gaining control over the human race and limiting population</b>. Limited population with a virus that was created in a lab, and funded by the United States of America, by several people in the United States of America, along with other countries.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIP ENDS</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ROUZ: The U.S. and its <b style="">Five Eyes intel partners</b> point out COVID-19 broke out shortly after President Trump forced China into s phase-one trade deal to reduce Chinese control of the U.S. economy. Now that China may be striking back,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> there is concern that the deep state, Democrat cabal, and the Big Pharma are working to derail President Trump's reelection and force the American people into total submission and control. Kristian Rouz, One America News.</span></font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/aiming-to-take-down-fox-donald-trump-jr-reportedly-investing-in-far-right-oann/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/aiming-to-take-down-fox-donald-trump-jr-reportedly-investing-in-far-right-oann/</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Investors aligned with Donald Trump Jr. and Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Tommy Hicks Jr. have acquired a major stake in One America News</b> Network (OANN), sources familiar with the deal told Vanity Fair.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Tommy Hicks and Don Jr. have been looking to buy a station for Trump TV,” a person briefed on the negotiations told Vanity Fair.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is all about building a Fox competitor. Trump is really aiming to take down Fox,” the person said.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report is the first to connect the Trump family to the acquisition, discussions of which were first <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-allies-explore-buyout-of-conservative-news-channel-one-america-news-network-11578696767" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reported</u></a> in January by the Wall Street Journal.</font></font></font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</font></font></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Journal reported that Hicks Equity Partners, a firm belonging to the family of Tommy Hicks Jr., the RNC co-chair, was negotiating a $250 million deal with Herring Networks, the parent company of OANN,</b> a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/5/13/18617594/trump-one-america-news-network-explained" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">low-impact</u></a> far-right network that offers a home to the likes of Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and has <a href="https://hillreporter.com/6-conspiracy-theories-promoted-by-oann-trumps-new-favorite-news-outlet-32633" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">defended Roy Moore</u></a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">endorsed Russian propaganda</u></a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sources told Vanity Fair the deal has stumbled along for months and still hasn’t closed, but that the Trump-affiliated group had reportedly talked Herring down to $200 million. VF said it was also unclear whether Donald Trump Jr. invested Trump money in the deal, or was given equity.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As the buyout talks progressed, President Trump has repeatedly expressed his growing distaste with Fox News — long perceived as the only network he likes, and certainly the only network that consciously slants coverage and analysis in his favor.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last month <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/20/trump-warns-americans-that-fox-news-is-on-a-bad-path-after-nancy-pelosi-appears-on-the-network/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump accused Fox News of “being on a bad path,”</u></a> and has <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/13/trump-wants-to-know-what-the-hell-is-happening-at-fox-news-its-a-whole-new-ballgame-over-there/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">asked twice now</u></a> “what the hell is happening” at the network. He <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/02/trump-attacks-fox-news-reporter-for-asking-about-disbanded-pandemic-team-are-you-working-for-cnn/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">attacked Fox reporters</u></a> twice last month <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-attacks-fox-news-reporter-kristin-fisher-during-coronavirus-press-briefing" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">during White House coronavirus briefings</u></a>, and has taken several potshots at several of the channel’s shows and personalities, <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1222183788211470336" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">tweeting</u></a> in January that Fox News was “really pathetic” and “so politically correct,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/02/21/trump-attacks-fox-news-neil-cavuto-network-stars-jump-his-defense/4829214002/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">singling out Chris Wallace’s impeachment coverage</u></a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After it was reported that Fox had fired MAGA-world luminaries Diamond and Silk for hawking ludicrous coronavirus conspiracy theories, Trump <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/28/trump-pushes-back-against-fox-news-for-cutting-his-most-loyal-supporters-i-love-diamond-and-silk/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">tweeted</u></a> his support for the duo: “But I love Diamond and Silk, and so do millions of people!</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late April, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/27/trump-demands-an-alternative-to-fox-news-as-he-accuses-the-network-of-spreading-misinformation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump took to Twitter once again to call for an alt-Fox, pro-himself network</u></a>:</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The people who are watching @FoxNews, in record numbers (thank you President Trump), are angry,” he wrote. “They want an alternative now. So do I!”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During this same period, Trump often promoted OANN, providing the nascent network — which is <a href="https://hillreporter.com/6-conspiracy-theories-promoted-by-oann-trumps-new-favorite-news-outlet-32633" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">viewed with disdain by many reputable journalists</a> — with cover <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oann-reporter-says-white-house-invited-her-back-to-coronavirus-briefings-after-removal-from-whca-rotation" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">against the White House Correspondents’ Association</a>. Trump even plugged OANN by name in <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249093268920467457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1249093268920467457&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdidtrumptweetit.com%2F1249094316242481152-2%2F" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a tweet last month</u></a> as the alternative he has been asking for.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/5/13/18617594/trump-one-america-news-network-explained" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">this isn’t the first time</u></a> Trump has appeared to be switching media mistresses. When Fox soothes him, he reciprocates. When they rankle him, he pumps OANN.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>OANN, which has roughly one-third of Fox’s reach, with ratings <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reportedly</u></a> lower than the Tennis Channel, appears to have no problem <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/5/13/18617594/trump-one-america-news-network-explained" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">serving as the president’s megaphone</u></a>.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For instance, OANN hired former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— the newly-hired spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services who recently disgraced himself with </span><u style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/trumps-new-health-and-human-services-spokesman-tweeted-racist-remarks-and-conspiracy-theories/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a barrage of racist, pandemic-related tweets</a> </u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— who hosted a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">special program dedicated to “the Ukraine Hoax.” Late last year a network crew accompanied Rudy Giuliani and <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/11/10/who-is-rudy-giulianis-friend-charles-an-accidental-text-may-have-outed-his-identity/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">personal assistant Christianné Allen</u></a> on a trip to Ukraine, which resulted in a <a href="https://www.oann.com/oaninvestigates/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">three-part series</u></a> that mainlined viewers with apparent <b>Russian disinformation.</b></span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spokespeople for Trump Jr. and Hicks denied involvement in the deal to Vanity Fair.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Trump, who is in no financial position to acquire Fox News, views OANN as a fallback business opportunity should former Vice President Joe Biden defeat him in November, according to Vanity Fair, which reported the president might look to OANN as a “post-presidential television platform.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The cash from the buyout will reportedly help OANN increase its production values and campaign to expand its viewership, two elements Trump would demand of any home for a post-White House TV home.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump Jr. and Hicks have been wrapped in scandal before. The president’s eldest son and his younger brother Eric were — along with Hicks and Dallas-based investment manager Gentry Beach — co-registrants for a nonprofit called Opening Day, which insinuated itself in Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s sons had to abandon the organization weeks after its inauguration event was announced, amid <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/12/21/eric-trump-donald-trump-jr-distance-themselves-from-dallas-based-nonprofit-s-inauguration-party/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">allegations that they were selling access</u></a> to their father.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An associate of<b> Gentry Beach </b>declined to comment when Salon inquired about his possible involvement in the OANN deal.</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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UPDATED 11:07 AM PT — Monday, May 11, 2020</font></font></font></h5><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative views have come under increased scrutiny during the COVID-19 crisis as questions are raised and online content is abruptly censored.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One America’s White House Correspondent Jenn Pellegrino has more.</font></font></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mma 520</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></font></font></div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>James O'Keefe</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9a87b04658a1b0ab1a3a65898e0b40ddb9e8ef921e69350ea34f77ac0181dd13d6ab631702eb4877f7c68b35bb23cffabe" title="fell flat again">fell flat again</a>, in his supposed “investigation” of COVID-19 deaths. <b>Sean Hannity</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9aca5b3f93d46874b9dfa1f93688f91c26316bb169d11deabdcdc7a61d7bb057c803bf8fec880987f38a0c839a50e9dee2" title="was among the few">was among the few</a> that ran with it.</font></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style: disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Giving up any pretense of subtlety, an<b> </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>OAN host</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a04c9d366cc91a9af9a6be5eb7d033bf129b47f91228d47e3d70a0b251b9cb0cef49028aa70e113e5aa204ad64d4f77f3f0ad21df870e7a8" title="likened">likened</a> Democratic politicians in California to Nazis.</span></font></font></font></li></ul></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><header class="entry-header clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; text-transform: capitalize;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Native American Tribes Create Separate Measures To Protect Residents Amid Disputes With Lawmakers</font></font></font></h1></header><p class="entry-meta" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div class="entry-content clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 4:40 PM PT — Sunday, May 10, 2020</font></font></font></h5><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Native American tribes have taken matters into their own hands to stop the spread of the coronavirus in their communities. Here’s One America’s Kyarra Harris with the latest. [gov noem said get approval for checkpt? lawsuit alaska]</font></font></font></p></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.oann.com/native-american-tribes-create-separate-measures-to-protect-residents-amid-disputes-with-lawmakers/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.oann.com/native-american-tribes-create-separate-measures-to-protect-residents-amid-disputes-with-lawmakers/</font></a></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">online comments</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"the 1st citizens of this country" deserve much better than how we treat illegal aliens who are free riding on the relief money.</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You do know the artifacts and other findings in Florida clearly show Europeans here at least 400 years before the first artifacts of the Indians? The Indians which are part and parcel from Asian countries.</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FlipSider Elijah • 8 hours ago</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Old news Elija. There are genetic markers (less than 0.00000001%) in some Native Americans which indicate mixing with Europeans sometime before 11,000 B.C. but that has nothing to do with this article.</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Avatar</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Bailey Elijah • 13 hours ago</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That begs the question what happened to the Europeans if they were here first?</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And I guess then the Spanish destroyed the descendants of their own people in south america then?</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But yes the Indians came here back when the continents were connected by a land bridge from Asia to north america.</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">•</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Avatar</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rich FSr Bill Bailey • an hour ago</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They are probably referring to the Vikings which makes no nevermind since the Vikings told nobody. Didn't colonize anywhere and eventually booked.</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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The network’s chief White House correspondent, <b>Chanel Rion</b>, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c771ef1d42101b99034ba610c184e421d8bf791f6c84a0a5ff8d192ba05de4dc8afcadfa392851d6bdf3cc84c69351959" title="suggested" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">suggested</a> that the novel coronavirus responsible for the current pandemic may have originated in a North Carolina laboratory.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">s support, Rion cited <b style="">Greg Rubini</b>, whom she described in the special as “a citizen investigator and monitored source amongst a certain set in the D.C. intelligence community.” There is no evidence that Rubini is a “monitored source” for anyone but Rion. He has pushed QAnon conspiracy theories about the “deep state” on Twitter</span>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Rubini also preposterously suggested that Dr. <b>Anthony Fauci</b> funded the creation of the novel coronavirus</span> and that Trump's political opponents spread it around the world, from China to Italy to back to the United States. This is obviously a totally bananas conspiracy theory -- but it's one the network fell for.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This would be bad enough, but the Trump White House has credentialed the networked as well.</b> <b>And on Wednesday, Trump called on Rion during a White House briefing, where <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c8b7002104c48880df73085b63649662f00003949340061e7062cfaec208dca5eaa9226c653e71c627539fd95ee9973c8" title="she asked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">she asked</a> if the phrase "Chinese food" was racist, and accused the rest of the media of “siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shortly after making a mockery of a public briefing in the middle of a pandemic that could kill millions, Rion <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c7e3b84bb62085a995742d60c51ad4a096b075ba419c96cf3fdcd4555ab0a71995be0b468315b40d537f6173941b6bf6c" title="said that" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">said that</a> China was making an "odd" accusation that the novel coronavirus was created in the United States -- the same conspiracy theory that Rion herself had endorsed just days earlier.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This isn't going to end, either: On Saturday, Trump <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84a74f631ce0f26c46f953fafc5ed304bafa53fb3e4760d632b3e911e5da39559b6440c226d08966a55324fbd0daa5f6236d6ca6199ae271" title="again called on OAN" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">again called on OAN</a> and used its question to attack The Washington Post.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 0px 10px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px;"><td class="yiv1495947851stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv1495947851camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Featured Media</font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/pro-trump-network-oan-facing-lawsuit-over-white-anchors-alleged-racial-harassment-of-producer"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/pro-trump-network-oan-facing-lawsuit-over-white-anchors-alleged-racial-harassment-of-producer</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly December 30, 2019</span></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Democrats continue to wring their hands over the 2020 presidential primary, Donald Trump and his enablers decided a long time ago that the eventual nominee would be Joe Biden. That explains the pressure the president put on Ukraine to announce an investigation into the Bidens, a move that led to his impeachment.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But just as we saw with the attempts to smear Hillary Clinton in 2016, the disinformation campaign about the Bidens will continue unabated in an effort to drive up negative impressions of the former vice president. Nicholas Grosman has documented the origins of one of those campaigns that is underway.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hunter Biden is currently involved in a paternity suit in Arkansas. The New York Post recently ran an article titled, “Private-eye firm claims Hunter Biden is linked to multiple criminal probes.” Here’s the lead paragraph.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hunter Biden is the subject of multiple criminal investigations related to “fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme,” it’s claimed in court documents filed Monday in his Arkansas paternity case.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The documents they are referring to were filed by a Florida-based private-eye firm, D&A Investigations</b>, and were almost immediately dismissed by the judge because they had nothing to do with the paternity case. Nowhere in the documents did D&A name the agencies behind the purported criminal probes of Biden.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Grossman did what the reporters at the New York Post apparently couldn’t be bothered to do: he googled D&A Investigations and found their web site. The home page lists “active investigations.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">D&A opened an independent investigation (Transparency) in August 2016 into Hillary R. Clinton (HRC), Jeffrey Epstein & the Democrat National Committee (DNC) claims of: Russia broke into the DNC. </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the time, William J. Clinton (WJC), HRC, John Podesta, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John Kerry were in <b>collusion with Rogue Officials in the British Isles, Hong Kong, Iran, Russia, the Ukraine, United States, et al</b>, to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In other words, the firm is dedicated to spreading conspiracy theories—particularly those that originate as Russian propaganda.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hunter Biden’s attorney, Brent Langdon, responded to the filings by saying that D&A was engaged in “a scheme by a non-party simply to make scandalous allegations in the pending suit to gain some quick media attention.” As confirmation, the charges were never substantiated and were almost immediately dismissed, and yet they’ve caught fire on right wing media.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two days after the article in the Post, the story showed up on Fox News under the title, “Hunter Biden is subject of criminal probes, says PI firm hinting at more incriminating details</b>.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Other than repeating what had already been reported and using the opportunity to rehash the claims about Burisma, they added that D&A told them “to expect an additional filing soon, and hinted that more incriminating details concerning Hunter Biden’s business dealings would soon come to light.”</span></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The story was then picked up by OAN and made its way to RealClearPolitics. At this point, the title simply reads: “Court Filing Shows Hunter Biden Earned $156 Million From Ukraine Corruption.” We can assume that social media feeds are now inundated with these false claims.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is worth noting that this attempt to spread disinformation is so blatant that reputable news organizations are simply ignoring it. But as Grossman writes, “to figure out what to do about disinformation, first we need understand how it works.” This case gives us an example of how that happens. Either news organizations like the New York Post, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics are complicit with a firm like D&A Investigations or they aren’t interested in verifying information when it reinforces their biases. As a result, they spread disinformation and lies.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>That is how Trump is able to maintain his 40+ percent support in the polls. Republicans have a propaganda network that keeps them steeped in lies. Back in 2016, mainstream media gave credence to those lies about Hillary Clinton in the name of balance. </b>Beyond offering a mea culpa for their complicity, reporters should do their part to expose the propaganda network for what it is. This story would be a good place to start.</font></font></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>As House impeachment hearings unfolded, it was OAN that accompanied Rudy Giuliani on a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, for the purposes of taping "interviews" with the same disgraced Ukrainian officials who had assisted Giuliani in ousting the anti-corruption U.S. ambassador to Ukraine </b>and in peddling increasingly weird and categorically false smears against potential Trump political rival Joe Biden. Now The Daily Beast reports that the OAN efforts have been going even farther than even that.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last week, German law enforcement officials arrested former Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleksandr Onyshchenko on a warrant from Ukrainian prosecutors. Onyshchenko, a multimillionaire, was wanted in Ukraine for embezzlement, stealing multimillions from Ukraine's state-owned natural gas company. </span>It is part of the current Ukrainian government's efforts to clean up the rampant national corruption of past years, the same (frequently pro-Russian and/or Russian-tied) corruption that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort involved himself in, and is currently in prison for, and which Giuliani is continuing to stump for in his collaborations with those same corrupt ex-officials.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But German officials might have at least temporarily missed Onyshchenko had they waited any longer, because at the time of his arrest, OAN was attempting to secure him a visa to travel to the United States. And the OAN network president confirmed to Daily Beast that the company is currently attempting to get American visas for other former Ukrainian officials—all apparently part of the Giuliani-helmed "investigation" that claims that disgraced Ukrainian embezzlers and crooked officials are the good guys battling the "corruption" of their declared enemies and that the current anti-corruption Ukrainian government and its American allies are actually the crooked ones.</span></div><div>
</div><div>That's a common-to-the-point-of-parody claim by arrested criminals and fleeing crooked government officials the world over, mind you, but both Rudy Giuliani and OAN have decided, for the purposes of benefiting Dear Leader, to attach themselves to this one. In Rudy's case, we know he has both solicited and received cash for his strange alliances in the country, though the details remain murky. OAN, however, appears to be spending its cash solely for the purposes of furthering an anti-Biden, anti-Ukraine, anti-U.S.-government propaganda video.</div><div>
</div><div>There doesn't seem to be much shame at OAN at being caught trying to help a wanted Ukrainian fugitive pop over to the United States to spread propaganda notions of his own innocence and something-something Joe Biden before law enforcement caught up with him. OAN also isn't revealing the identities of the other Ukrainian ex-officials it is still trying to obtain visas for. Fox News may be the most prominent propaganda outlet for Trump and Trump's preferred conspiracies, but it looks like OAN is trying to position itself as the preferred network of the Ukrainian mob.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Melanie McFarland / Salon October 6, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some poor self-abusive souls claim to be doing this for the sake of learning. Others are searching for any precedent that might hint at how the inquiry against Donald Trump could end. But history has no clear way of predicting that, owing to one highly potent factor that was not present in 1998 or in 1974: the right-wing media apparatus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We know this, or maybe we think we do. This site and many others spend a lot of time reporting on incendiary, misleading, and racist statements made by Fox News’ unholy triumvirate of prime-time cable news hosts. The right-wing media machine is also fueled by partisan podcasts and talk radio, Breitbart, Infowars, and Drudge, but it’s Fox News that dominates the 24-hour cycle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News isn’t entirely in Trump’s pocket, however — and for the MAGA faithful, that’s a problem. Fox News may be home to Sean Hannity (hero!) but it also employs news anchor Shepard Smith (boo!). For every soothing squawk emitted by Judge Janine Pirro, there’s a counter-bray from Judge Andrew Napolitano stating that Trump engaged in “both criminal and impeachable behavior” in his famous phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Fox got rid of its “fair and balanced” hypno-motto some time ago, but it has maintained just enough whiff of “both-sideism” to allow your intolerant confirmed bachelor uncle to crow about its legitimacy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Spend enough time treading water in the churning toilet that is Twitter though, and eventually you will come across mentions of One America News Network, the more righteously right-than-Fox news choice for the people who find Fox too liberal to take these days.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump loves OAN. In his view, OAN is purely about real news, another way of saying positive news about him. Its 24-hour feed is accessible online or via subscription on that highly reputable, and unbiased platform known as Facebook. In addition to gorging on OAN on Facebook, subscribers can also receive its feed on Roku or on KlowdTV which, like OAN, is owned by 77-year-old Robert Herring Sr., who made his millions in printing circuit boards. Profiles of the network published in The Washington Post and The Daily Beast indicate that Herring determines the content and the angle of the stories the network covers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And if Trump is a fan of OAN, Herring is even a bigger and more devoted fan of Trump’s.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN has been around since 2013, but it didn’t truly find its reason for being until the channel’s lord and master Donald Trump took office in 2016. Since then, OAN has been the main outlet for the Trump congregants who are refusing to buy the fake news the rest of the lamestream media is peddling.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And although Fox is dutifully reporting the impeachment inquiry by hammering away at the supposed corruption of Trump’s Democratic rival, former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter, <b>OAN prefers to skip that unnecessary foreplay and leap straight to the headlines we want, like Friday’s “’Ukraine Files’ Exonerate President Trump’.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the company’s own estimates, the San Diego-based news outfit is available in some 35 million households via cable and IPTV platforms. It is not carried by Comcast, the corporate owner of NBC Universal and the overlords of Rachel Maddow, whose assertion on a recent episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show” that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda,” resulted in the Herrings slapping Maddow, Comcast and NBC Universal with a lawsuit seeking damages in excess of $10 million.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Comcast won’t carry OAN, CenturyLink, Verizon’s Fios TV, Frontier Communications, and AT&T’s U-verse do. It also has a berth on satellite provider DirecTV, which is how I first stumbled upon its half-hour nightly newscast.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>DirecTV<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">carries these limited telecasts of OAN on the Herring-owned channel AWE, short for A Wealth of Entertainment (formerly known as Wealth TV), which has been around since 2004. One can’t observe OAN apart from AWE, since the channel itself is a 24-hour tribute to the consumption patterns of the hyper-wealthy. Shows like “Selling Mega-Mansions,” “Selling Yachts,” and “Private Island” reveal HGTV programming to be shack porn for the poors.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also hold a mirror up to the ideal OAN viewer: portly old white guys and their trophy wives. For proof of this, look no further than the AWE interstitials, such as a memorable one featuring a surgically enhanced woman with a Mona Lisa grin plastered across her face, mindlessly strolling down a beach. Why? For what reason? Who knows. And those same questions pop up again and again while watching what passes for news on OAN, but often involves conspiracy theory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>AWE depicts wealth and materialism as aspirational and the true marker of Americanness. </b>Once a person understands this, she may understand why OAN is riding first class on the Trump train, and why the AWE viewer would readily accept a program purported to be a newscast that has all the production value of a college newscast on community cable access.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given the craziness of this week’s headlines, I decided to try an experiment: what would my view of the world be like if I consumed One America News Network’s half-hour broadcast as my primary news source this week?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This was not a pure experiment, mind you, considering that I work for a news website. Even if I avoid looking at the site itself, I can’t help but come across a few headlines on stories written by my fellow Salon pinko socialists, one of whom I suspect is a worshipper of Moloch.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But as much as possible, I limited myself to informing myself about what’s going on in the world by way of OAN’s 30-minute evening and morning breakdowns. And I must admit, after only a few telecasts, my outlook on where this is all going – this being the young experiment that is America, has changed vastly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For one thing, and this may surprise you, but everything the Democrats are doing in the effort to impeach Trump is meant to cover up their own corruption.</b> I mean, they may talk a lot of mess about what the framers of the Constitution intended, but what smart people know is that the Constitution is only useful to people who want to protect their guns and limit the rights of women and minorities – or as AWE tacitly portrays those demographics, servants and lower paid servants, with exceptions granted for celebrities of color hawking joint cream and financial products for retirees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another aspect of OAN’s coverage that one might notice and celebrate is that much of the sourcing for its angles comes from Twitter, and mainly Trump’s feed. This because OAN is even more invested than Fox News is in making sure we understand Trump heroic anti-corruption effort in trying to expose former vice president Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s mysterious hijinks in Ukraine.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Take Emerald Robinson’s reporting from the White House, but actually from Twitter,</b> that Trump thinks Democratic head of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, is “a stone cold liar.” Robinson cites Schiff’s claim on MSNBC that neither he nor his staff had spoken directly to the whistleblower, but goes on to cite the New York Times Wednesday story that indicated Schiff actually had early contact with the whistleblower.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now – I didn’t read the failing New York Times’ account because fake news, amirite? I mean, maybe the whistleblower had a good reason for going to Schiff’s aides? And maybe Schiff had a reason for keeping mum about it on MSNBC? In any case, boom goes the dynamite, he lied, and this after supposedly changing the text of the transcript supposedly as he was reading from it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It is the President, however, who is coming under fire for his statements immediately following the breaking news on Wednesday during a press conference – some in the media accusing the president of lying when he said Schiff probably helped write the complaint… ‘probably’ being the operative word that is being left out or ignored in some cases in the coverage,” Robinson says, in a tone that let you know that matters, not the thought that he’s making that up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thursday’s telecast also covered <b>Arizona representative Andy Biggs</b>’ intent to file a motion to censure Schiff, as well as the continuing adventures of, in the words of an OAN correspondent Neil W. McCabe, “international icon” Rudy Giuliani, as he announces he is considering a massive lawsuit against Schiff and the United States Congress.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In another report from Jack Posobiec (a right wing troll in any other forum, but a rock solid reporter here), warns of an effort to revive investigations into Russian collusion. </span>Which is not only trustworthy and I’m sure contextually accurate, but also completely germane to the whole impeachment business. Because when in doubt, haul in the Obamas and the Clintons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In yet another moment that’s part of OAN’s regional news coverage, we see archive footage from the aftermath of a California synagogue shooting in close proximity to poll (conducted by whom, they did not say – but whatevs!) results that voters in California are turning on Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The stat from a survey (again, which?) of likely voters shows a 44 percent disapproval rating for Democrats. To back this up, the producers play a clip of Trump talking about how filthy California is. Similarly, Tuesday night coverage of Bayou Steel Mill in Louisiana was careful to include an interview with one of its workers that made it clear, “this wasn’t about the tariffs…the tariffs helped us.</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How was this man in a position to know this for certain? That was left a mystery. He didn’t look like he worked in corporate, or like a liaison to the local labor industry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another source, Gov. John Bel Edwards, said “While Bayou Steel has not given any specific reason for the closure, we know that this company, which uses recycled scrap metal that is largely imported, is particularly vulnerable to tariffs…Louisiana is among the most dependent states on tariffed metals, which is why we continue to be hopeful for a speedy resolution to the uncertainty of the future of tariffs.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Edwards is a Democrat, which is probably why this quote appeared in a story by MarketWatch, not One America News.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On OAN, nothing that the President is doing is an abuse of his office or its powers. Rather, his pleas for foreign governments to investigate his competition for the 2020 presidency is just a very transparent effort to expose liars. Just like Trump’s Florida visit was touted as a win for healthcare, as the anchor repeats White House talking points that the president will always work to protect the healthcare of Americans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN interrupted one of its Thursday telecasts to broadcast Vice President Mike Pence’s goodwill appearance at the Hispanic Leaders Roundtable Discussion in full, where he touted all of the administration’s accomplishments. It showed everything but the parts of the visit where reporters swooped in to ask Pence questions about his boss’ on-camera solicitation of foreign interference earlier that day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, while the rest of the media reported that Wednesday’s press conference showed Trump as totally off his nut, OAN told the truth — that Trump was firmly standing up to media efforts to discredit his presidency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>To that end, it’s been a really banner time for Trump on OAN.</b> In prior weeks, when no major democracy-changing news was breaking, the channel’s anchors summarized the gist of his spilled word salads over silent footage of him talking. But this week, the newscasts find the cleanest soundbites to make Trump sound “perfect.” Its his opposition that is almost always shown with the sound off. Unless, that is, the audio the producers feature portrays them in a negative light.As for Maddow’s opinion, we can see where she might be mistaken about this <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">network whose owners, according to their attorney Skip Miller, are “as American as apple pie.” The reporter she refers to, Kristian Brunovich Rouz, may have been born in Siberia but currently lives in San Diego.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to a report in The Daily Beast, he also is on the payroll of the Kremlin-owned Sputnik, even though OAN identifies him as its own reporter</span>. Anyway, this week he turned in a lengthy report on the Bidens allegedly corrupt dealings in the Ukraine, and since I didn’t examine what other sources had to say about the topic, I’m sure it contains no holes or baseless conspiracy theories at all.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So what did we learn? One, it’s really great to be rich. And it’s even better to be rich with zero sense of consequence or thought about the global consequences of supporting a despot regardless of his actions. And this is the demographic OAN and AWE cater to: rich white guys and white guys who want to be rich white guys and people who really want to be taken care of by rich white guys who own, buy, and sell yachts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And for those guys who really want to be like the President, the Twitter feed is even better, including such totally-not-insane headlines as “NASA: Climate changes due to shifts in solar orbit, not human activity.” Click through to the story itself and you’ll see…oops, a 404 error. Surely that has nothing to do with NASA’s official research about what is causing climate change (spoiler alert: the sun is totally exonerated; man is not). But I mean, do you want to believe what NASA says, or what One America News says that NASA says?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this week, <b>CNN’s Oliver Darcy made an important observation in the Reliable Sources newsletter – that the right-wing media machine has effectively made it impossible for Republicans to directly access its own voters. </b>He writes, “Make no mistake: If Trump survives the deepening scandal he now finds himself in, it will be because of Fox and the rest of the pro-Trump media machine muddying the waters and poisoning the public conversation.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN isn’t your ordinary poison, though. It’s a mind-altering drug meant to placate Americans who worship wealth but don’t necessarily have it, who hold faith that those who do will somehow see fit to share it. There isn’t much heated conflict or hyperbolic name-calling on OAN aside from what the President serves up in news conferences. In its place is a lot of calmly presented misinformation, misdirection, and unfounded theory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because believe me – actual wealthy people who are reliant on facts about what’s going on in the world aren’t watching this network or its news…unless they hold elected office. In that case, as Darcy points out, they have to be aware of how outlets are skewing coverage to make sure they’re not stepping out of line.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The goal is to stay off of OAN, it seems – unless you’re international icon Rudy Giuliani.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But if you’re an OAN viewer you probably aren’t as angry or worry about what’s going on in the world. Trump has this America business well in hand, so let’s all hang in there and wait for the solar orbit to adjust and this climate change lunacy to calm down.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div>OF COURSE</div><div><b>Trump’s New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda</b></div><div>One America News Network has no qualms with playing the mouthpiece for Kremlin-hatched conspiracy theories. And one of its most loyal viewers lives in the White House</div><div>
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</div><div>Kevin Poulsen</div><div>Sr. National Security Correspondent</div><div>Updated 05.04.19 3:45AM ET / Published<b> 05.03.19 </b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When it comes to putting disinformation in front of American eyeballs, Vladimir Putin has long been able to count alt-right social media stars like Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich as reliable allies. Now the One America News Network, a pro-Trump cable news and commentary channel, is joining them in embracing some of Moscow’s most vile fake news.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Wednesday OANN aired a segment claiming to reveal that dozens of members of the Syrian Civil Defense, a humanitarian group known as the White Helmets, have confessed to faking chemical weapons attacks in Syria to frame Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator propped up by Putin.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“At least 40 members of the terrorist-linked White Helmets have admitted they staged fake chemical attacks to provoke retaliation against the Syrian Government,” began the report by OANN correspondent Pearson Sharp. “Members of the group, who won an Oscar for their Netflix documentary, came out in recent interviews for a study presented to the United Nations and confessed they had in fact faked the attacks.”</div><div>
</div><div>In the real world, the White Helmets are a humanitarian group whose rescue workers are credited with saving at least 100,000 civilians caught in the crossfire of Syria’s bloody civil war. Until recently group was partly funded by the US State Department, and it’s routinely praised as heroic by Western world leaders. A 2016 Netflix documentary on the White Helmets won an Oscar for its British producer.</div><div>
</div><div>This cable news smear traces directly to a frenzied disinformation campaign by Russia aimed at linking the White Helmets to a broad range of wrongdoing: things like running a black market in human organs, colluding with terrorists and faking Assad’s chemical weapons attacks. Moscow has been relentless in pushing these claims, tirelessly falsifying videos and photographs, creating phony news outlets and fake think tanks to do so. Some of the same GRU officers involved in the 2016 election interference created fake freelance journalists to pitch stories smearing the White Helmets to legitimate news outlets.</div><div>
</div><div>But the governments of Syria and Russia detest the volunteers, who have the inconvenient habit of toting video cameras on their rescue missions. Footage captured by the group has not only laid bare the horrifying civilian toll in Syria, but repeatedly exposed the carnage wrought by Assad’s use of illegal chemical weapons.</div><div>
</div><div>Russia’s disinformation about the White Helmets has come to dominate search results, thanks to prominent American trolls, Russian government outlets like the RT network and Sputnik, and a handful of alternative news websites surrounded by a social media echo chamber.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Moscow’s latest disinformation blitz is all about a report produced by the “Foundation for the Study of Democracy”, a Russian NGO headed by one Maxim Grigoriev</b>. On April 25, Russian diplomats brought Grigoriev into the UN, where he presented his report in a a plenary room in the basement. Then they took him to Washington, D.C. for a press conference at the Russian embassy four days later.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In Wednesday’s segment, OANN correspondent Pearson Sharp mentions the UN briefing for institutional gravitas,</b> but doesn’t mention which country brought Grigoriev into the room. And despite Moscow’s obvious self-interest in burnishing Assad’s image, he doesn’t disclose the Kremlin’s midwifing of the report at all, nor that the Foundation for the Study of Democracy is a Russian institution.</div><div>
</div><div>Sharp defended those omissions in an email exchange with The Daily Beast, writing that “the veracity of Grigoriev report doesn’t hinge on the fact that he’s Russian, and has worked with the Russian government. It hinges on the evidence of the report.”</div><div>
</div><div>Sharp's news segment does find time to refer to the White Helmets—parenthetically, as though tossing out a well-known fact—as “terrorist-linked” and “terrorist sympathizers,” pulling a continuing thread in Russia’s disinformation that some experts think is intended to brand the Syrian rescue workers as legitimate military targets.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Headquartered in San Diego, One America News Network was launched in 2013 by circuit-board magnate Robert Herring, who said he intended it as an alternative to Fox News. Around the 2016 election the channel declared Donald Trump fans as its core audience, and for a time it employed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The network has a history with fake news. Last year it reported that California lawmakers were considering a bill to outlaw the sale of Bibles in the state, and Sharp’s earlier work includes a segment pushing the noxious Seth Rich conspiracy. The networks recent hires include notorious Pizzagate pusher Jack Posobiec, who joined as a political correspondent.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Although the latest Nielsen report ranks OANN’s ratings somewhere below the Tennis Channel, there’s enormous value to Moscow in getting its fake White Helmets news repeated in any American newscast, said former FBI agent Clint Watts, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“It’s source laundering,”</b> Watts told the Daily Beast. “Then they can recirculate the story as an organic American story, and that could travel further than if it’s only on RT and Sputnik… The more places it shows up the more it looks like it’s not a single source origin story.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s another benefit to the Kremlin in airing its disinformation on OANN. One of the channel’s most ardent and credulous viewers happens to be President of the United States.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“It's a great network,” Donald Trump said during a 2017 </b>news conference.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Though Trump hasn’t commented on the White Helmets story, he’s definitely watching the network.<b> Last month he tweeted an old conspiracy claim, discredited in 2017, that the U.K.’s signals intelligence agency helped President Obama spy on his campaign, after seeing a segment about it on OANN.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“WOW!,” the president wrote. “It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty!”</span></div><div>
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</div><div>Kevin Poulsen</div><div>Sr. National Security Correspondent</div><div>@kpoulsen</div><div>Kevin.Poulsen@thedailybeast.com</div><div>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>If the stories broadcast by the Trump-endorsed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">One America News Network </span>sometimes look like outtakes from a Kremlin trolling operation, there may be a reason. One of the on-air reporters at the 24-hour network is a Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kristian Brunovich Rouz, originally from the <b>Siberian </b>city of Novosibirsk, has been living in San Diego, where OAN is based, since August 2017, reporting on U.S. politics for the 24-hour news channel. For all of that time, he’s been simultaneously writing for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned news wire that played a role in Russia’s 2016 election-interference operation, according to an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OF COURSE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rouz’s on-air reports for OAN include a wholly fabricated 2017 segment claiming <b>Hillary Clinton</b> is secretly bankrolling antifa through her political action committee. Clinton, Rouz claimed falsely, gave antifa protesters $800,000 that “went toward things like bricks, hammers, bats, and chains.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other smears target billionaire financier <b>George Soros</b>, a longtime Kremlin bête noire. In one segment, Rouz amplified a thoroughly debunked claim that Soros collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, when the Jewish philanthropist was 14 years old. Another Rouz story accused Soros of secretly funding migrant caravans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kremlin propaganda sometimes sneaks into Rouz’s segments on unrelated matters, dropped in as offhand background information. A segment on the Syrian rescue workers known as the <b>White Helmets references “allegations of the White Helmets’ involvement in military activities, executions, and numerous war atrocities,” but doesn’t disclose that those “allegations” were hoaxes that originated with Vladimir Putin and his proxies. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This completes the merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Clint Watts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In another report, Rouz cast Clinton’s criticism of Brexit as an extension of her “grievous insults and fake narratives against Russia”—an assertion that makes sense only in the context of Rouz’s multiple reports claiming Russia was framed for hacking Democrats.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In all of Rouz’s OAN segments reviewed by The Daily Beast, he is introduced as a “One America correspondent,” with no disclosure of his work for Russia’s state-owned media, where he continues to file stories daily, primarily on economic news. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This completes the merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media,” said former<b> FBI agent Clint Watts, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. “</b>We used to think of it as ‘They just have the same views’ or ‘They use the same story leads.’ But now they have the same personnel.</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rouz didn’t respond to email and telephone inquiries for this story. Reached by email, OAN President Charles Herring invited The Daily Beast to submit written questions about the network’s arrangement with Rouz. But after receiving the questions, Herring cut off contact.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Online records show Rouz graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 2010 and went on to earn a master’s degree in international relations at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. His byline first appears on Sputnik in December 2014. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few months later, he emigrated to the U.S., settling in Los Angeles in the spring of 2015, where he played guitar for an indie rock band called White Tar.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Oh shit, it's fucking Kristian! That's my ex-guitarist…”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Jov Paradice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former bandmate, whose stage name is Jov Paradice, told The Daily Beast that Rouz was secretive about his day job, except to say that he wrote articles about economics for a Russian company. In August 2016, Rouz worked for the <b>Los Angeles PR firm the Hoyt Organization</b>, according to a since-deleted tweet by the firm announcing his hire. He appears in an October 2016 photo on Hoyt’s Instagram feed, but isn’t readily apparent in subsequent photos. Hoyt didn’t respond to repeated email and telephone inquiries from The Daily Beast.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paradice said he and Rouz frequently clashed over their differing world views. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We kind of had a thing musically, but we were total opposites,” said Paradice. “When Trump was getting elected, he went into full sports coat mode. He had an indie style before—the whole blurred-line-of-sexuality thing—then he was wearing red ties and a suit. I said, ‘I’m not getting on the stage with Trump.’”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2017, Rouz said he was leaving the band to accept a job offer in <b>San Diego, Paradice recalls. It was only recently that Paradice discovered what that job was, when a Facebook friend posted a One America video purporting to document a link between antifa and ISIS terrorists.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m thinking, there’s something familiar here, and then I go, ‘Oh shit, it’s fucking Kristian!’” said Paradice. “That’s my ex-guitarist… His bullshit propaganda is good enough now that they gave him a tiny bit of a platform.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rouz joined OAN at a time when his Russian employer was coming under heightened scrutiny over its role in Putin’s election interference, and its efforts to expand its American influence. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In July 2017, Sputnik contracted with a struggling Washington, D.C.-area radio station to begin broadcasting Sputnik content 24 hours a day. Until then, the station played bluegrass music. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The move came just months after a declassified U.S. intelligence assessment named Sputnik, and its sister television outlet RT America, as players in Putin’s election-interference campaign. By September, the <b>FBI was investigating Sputnik for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. </b>The next month, Twitter announced it would no longer accept ads from Sputnik or RT.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The FARA issue was resolved in November 2017, when Sputnik formally registered with the Justice Department as an agent of a foreign power.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One America pushes some of the same false stories as Sputnik and RT, but with none of the legal entanglements. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Founded and helmed by 77-year-old circuit-board millionaire Robert Herring Sr., OAN launched in 2013 as an answer to the chatty, opinionated content of mainstream cable-news channels—and a place for viewers too conservative for Fox News. Under Herring’s direction, the network embraced Trumpism enthusiastically, starting in 2016.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Over time, the network became increasingly dedicated to conspiracy theories and fake news, and became overtly supportive of Russia’s global agenda. When Rouz joined, the network had recently shed a number of anchors and other staffers who’d bristled at the change. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Though it’s available in only a handful of cable markets, OAN’s viewership includes some influential figures, including the president of the United States. According to Media Matters, Trump has fallen for at least two fake stories after seeing them on OAN.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sr. National Security Correspondent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@kpoulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin.Poulsen@thedailybeast.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><a href="https://sputniknews.com/search/?query=kristian+rouz"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://sputniknews.com/search/?query=kristian+rouz</font></a></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dunno but jaylo headline banner</font></div><div><a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/rachel-maddow-msnbc-one-america-news-network-1202729817/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://deadline.com/2019/09/rachel-maddow-msnbc-one-america-news-network-1202729817/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://deadline.com/tag/one-america-news-network/" id="auto-tag_one-america-news-network" data-tag="one-america-news-network" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(146, 2, 0); border-top-color: rgb(146, 2, 0); border-right-color: rgb(146, 2, 0); border-left-color: rgb(146, 2, 0);">One America News Network</a>, one of the rivals to Fox News for right-leaning viewers, filed a defamation claim against <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/comcast/" id="auto-tag_comcast" data-tag="comcast" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(215, 121, 121);">Comcast</a>, <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/msnbc/" id="auto-tag_msnbc" data-tag="msnbc" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(215, 121, 121);">MSNBC</a> and <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/rachel-maddow/" id="auto-tag_rachel-maddow" data-tag="rachel-maddow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(215, 121, 121);">Rachel Maddow</a> on Monday, over Maddow’s claim that the conservative channel “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego (read it <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/complaint-oan-rachel-maddow-and-msnbc-wm.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(215, 121, 121);">here</a>) claims that the defendants retaliated against One America because its president, Charles Herring, called out MSNBC’s parent company. Comcast, “for their anti-competitive censorship” in refusing to carry the conservative channel. In an email to Comcast’s president of content acquisition, Gregory Rigdon, Herring had sought carriage on Comcast’s cable platforms and stated his concern that the cable giant “opposes including another conservative counter channel to counter MSNBC,” according to the lawsuit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A week later, Maddow opened her show by telling her audience that OANN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda,” according to the lawsuit.</b></font></p><div class="page" title="Page 15" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="section" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="layoutArea" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Their on-air U.S. politics reporter is paid by the Russian government to produce propaganda for that government,” Maddow said in the July 22 segment.</b></font></p></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Skip Miller, a partner at Miller Barondess who represents OANN, said in a statement: “One America is wholly owned, operated and financed by the Herring family in San Diego. They are as American as apple pie. They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government. This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a court of law.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Maddow made the claim after the Daily Beast ran a story by Kevin Poulsen reporting that one of One America’s on-air reporters, Kristian Brunovich Rouz, also was on the payroll for Sputnik, the Kremlin news outlet. One America then <a href="https://tennesseestar.com/2019/07/30/one-america-news-network-demands-retraction-from-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-and-the-daily-beast/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(215, 121, 121);">demanded a retraction</a>.</font></p><div class="page" title="Page 5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="section" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="layoutArea" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But One America said in the lawsuit that “Rouz has never been a staff employee of Sputnik News. <b>He worked as a freelancer for Sputnik News</b> and his work there had no relation to his work for OAN. Rouz submitted articles to Sputnik on his own and would receive approximately $40 if the articles were accepted.”</font></p></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit seeks more than $10 million in damages.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for MSNBC did not immediately return a request for comment.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><span class="title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?463171-3/tipping-points" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liz Wheeler, "Tipping Points - How to Topple the Left's House of Cards"</font></a></span><span class="abstract" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One America News Networks host Liz Wheeler offered her thoughts on how to…</font></span><span class="abstract" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">booktv 819</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/former-fbi-special-agent-heres-why-oans-kremlin-journalist-proves-that-merger-between-russian-state-sponsored-propaganda-and-american-conservative-media-is-complete/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/former-fbi-special-agent-heres-why-oans-kremlin-journalist-proves-that-merger-between-russian-state-sponsored-propaganda-and-american-conservative-media-is-complete/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>OAN’s Kremlin journalist proves the ‘merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media’ is complete: Former FBI special agent</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Kremlin</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>July 22, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its headlines look like they’re written to please an audience of one.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Political Strategist: President Trump’s reelection looks good in state-by-state analysis of chances.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Pres. Trump touts strong approval rating as economy remains solid.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“GOP businesswoman Scherie Murray announces campaign for AOC’s seat.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s been called an “obscure” pay-cable TV station, but One America News Network, which at time feels more like Fox News than Fox News, is President Donald Trump’s new favorite news channel. It worked hard to get there, and as a 2017 Washington Post article noted its “taking ‘pro-Trump’ to new heights.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The President has noticed, occasionally tweeting out their stories.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There’s not one shred of evidence that President Trump has done anything wrong.” @GrahamLedger One America News. So true, a total Witch Hunt – All started illegally by Crooked Hillary Clinton, the DNC and others!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 10, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Monday The Daily Beast‘s Sr. National Security Correspondent, Kevin Poulsen, noticed another reason why OANN may be Trump’s favorite new news outlet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“One of the on-air reporters at the 24-hour network is a Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kristian Rouz, “originally from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been living in San Diego, where OAN is based, since August 2017</b>, reporting on US politics for the 24-hour news channel,” The Daily Beast reports. “For all of that time he’s been simultaneously writing for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned newswire that played a role in Russia’s 2016 election interference operation, according to an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What kind of journalism does Rouz practice?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s “a wholly fabricated 2017 segment claiming Hillary Clinton is secretly bankrolling antifa through her political action committee,” while other “smears target billionaire financier George Soros.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In one segment, Rouz amplified a thoroughly debunked claim that Soros collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, when the Jewish philanthropist was 14 years old. Another Rouz story accused Soros of secretly funding migrant caravans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts, who served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force and has testified before Congress, weighed in.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“This completes the merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media,” Watts, now a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute,</b> told The Daily Beast. “We used to think of it as, ‘They just have the same views’ or, ‘They use the same story leads.’ But now they have the same personnel.”</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The newest "political correspondent" for the pro-Trump network One America News Network is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c194afed54f753c2fbbed9c57a771f8d16b00b33ec3b84cb5edc21a27c1069ddf1bfc754becebc8d2a7bd38d04c41114df" title="Chanel Rion" style="">Chanel Rion</a>, a right-wing editorial cartoonist who has drawn illustrations that have promoted anti-Muslim bigotry, Seth Rich conspiracy theories, and a call for "armed citizens" to defend the country against the "violent left."</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c10efa55dd62fef3b1553d2d305933b148d2a656e828f47f8f34c10b984beb38b723add8a5b16b9886d386eef6d1b6d62d" title="One America News Network" style="">One America News Network</a> is an openly pro-Trump network that pushes conspiracy theories, including about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. <i>The Washington Post</i> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c1f1c05daeb48ac38e5ec7cd2047f2a40bc335be689c540c4ccfcacb9efec79672cd199e4e87059875ea377fbc9b3a0094" title="reported" style="">reported</a> in a 2017 profile that the network's owner, Robert Herring Sr., has directed his channel to push the president's agenda. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c1d0f7ca46fb087d2b098f1c2ebc9dc59595e8f02719f2df096587c6f5b64d3f3634dcff0b208b533b33042447775d55fa" title="Jack Posobiec" style="">Jack Posobiec</a>, a Pizzagate and Seth Rich conspiracy theorist who has previously advocated for the "alt-right," also works for the network.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Trump recently tweeted his support for the network, writing: "Also, congratulations to @OANN on the great job you are doing and the big ratings jump ('thank you President Trump?')"</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a 2017 interview with <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c1d03189e1a4869fd9fca0b1d316a90d02c05cf5aff8985dff468e57ce239e1069aa12b2ed4d166ee0cd4762784d9186dd" title="conspiracy theory outlet" style="">conspiracy theory outlet</a> TruNews, Rion said that she started cartooning "when all these sleazy women started coming out attacking Trump saying that they touched him [sic] or did what this or that under flimsy grounds and I thought that the media really dropped the ball on that."</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rion's illustration have pushed anti-Muslim messages and conspiracy theories. She drew a cartoon wondering if the "deep state," DNC, or "Clinton crime family" killed Seth Rich and if the Clintons killed <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c13edd56a9c0b60dc66594352d197935689931607ca11707c1b3e996db93847057a9737ec44449c319a5ad01921e7b8153" title="author Victor Thorn" style="">author Victor Thorn </a>, a Clinton critic and virulent anti-Semite. She also made an illustration that said we need "armed citizens to defend America from [the] violent left" because the left is supposedly plotting an "assassination coup to kill [the] right," and the Democrats are plotting "to inspire killers." </font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Far-right grifters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have pushed a number of conspiracy theories previously; recently they failed in <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7b63ed2a16dd5f2826e05eec083015c66ed558d27f7c1f07c03cec752cdbd3846bf7ec970e66c0872ed8b06b4ee4ed1c8" title="trying to smear special counsel Robert Mueller">trying to smear special counsel Robert Mueller</a>.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Daily Beast <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c76d2b370005db6479c6aaf606e7cda8080880a45e517c5fd3eb34dcded2fe315368a7aa4457c8a4b56e959bb20744828b" title="reported that">reported that</a> the man purportedly behind allegations against South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg came forward to say that the entire thing was actually the idea of Wohl and Burkman and that all the allegations were false:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "Kelly said he expressed concerns about the scheme but Wohl told him to sleep on it. When Kelly woke at around 11 in the morning, Wohl 'was already dressed in a suit because he "can’t do a Monday if he isn’t in a suit”' and—of more significance—the fabricated statement had been posted to Medium, along with fake Twitter and Gmail accounts in Kelly’s name. According to Kelly, Burkman tried to calm his nerves by claiming that he was a '"star"’ and people are eating me up.' The trio, according to Kelly, ate Subway sandwiches, during which Kelly continued to express his regrets. Burkman and Wohl tried to calm him down by promising to purchase 'any house I wanted' and insisting that his family would 'get over it.'"</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the short time before Wohl allegedly posted the vague accusations online and the real Kelly came forward to dispute them, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=cd63cf57fe82b2c7cbf14099aa8cc01a8ee8c5e93f1f0a2fc76d93a61b0057884bcc6fae5ec0aa618409ab31d4b11c14e97b0e86fe2fbd52" title="far-right media ran with them">far-right media ran with them</a> -- despite no actual evidence whatsoever. Not only did a number of far-right digital outlets run with it, but Trump-favorite cable news station OANN did as well. OANN later covered the collapse of the smear, saying it made no sense -- never mentioning that it had covered the smear a day prior.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">many pix twit vid</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump-endorsed One America News Network among right-wing amplifiers of Jacob Wohl's attempted smear of Pete Buttigieg</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog ››› April 30, 2019 3:01 PM EDT ››› ALEX KAPLAN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melissa Joskow / Media Matters</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Far-right network One America News Network and others helped spread a hoax from pro-Trump trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman regarding Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One America News Network has repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories and employs well-known right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec.</b> President Donald Trump has praised the network, and he regularly watches and cites its programs -- just last week, he pushed a false claim from OANN that the United Kingdom helped the Obama administration spy on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On April 29, the network aired a segment about a Medium post purportedly from a man named Hunter Kelly accusing Buttigieg of sexually assaulting him earlier this year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters did not find a segment since then correcting the report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The real Kelly has since come forward to deny he wrote the post; he said Wohl and Burkman tricked him after approaching him to ask him to make up the allegation. From The Daily Beast:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly said that Wohl and his similarly infamous cohort, lobbyist Jack Burkman, booked him a flight from Michigan to Baltimore. From there, they drove to Burkman’s home in Arlington where Wohl showed him a draft of a statement detailing the bogus accusations against Buttigieg.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly said he expressed concerns about the scheme but Wohl told him to sleep on it. When Kelly woke at around 11 in the morning, Wohl “was already dressed in a suit because he ‘can’t do a Monday if he isn’t in a suit’” and—of more significance—the fabricated statement had been posted to Medium, along with fake Twitter and Gmail accounts in Kelly’s name.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Kelly, Burkman tried to calm his nerves by claiming that he was a “‘star’ and people are eating me up.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The trio, according to Kelly, ate Subway sandwiches, during which Kelly continued to express his regrets. Burkman and Wohl tried to calm him down by promising to purchase “any house I wanted” and insisting that his family would “get over it.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wohl has a history of pushing false claims and hoaxes. He told USA Today in February that he aimed to interfere in the Democratic presidential primaries, including with the use of fake social media accounts, and he previously spread a false claim about Democratic candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). The lie about Buttigieg also resembles a similar scheme by Wohl and Burkman involving a fake intelligence service used to fabricate a false sexual assault allegation against special counsel Robert Mueller.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to OANN, other figures and outlets that pushed Wohl and Burkman’s false claim about Buttigieg include:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars and its writer Paul Joseph Watson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PJ Media, though the original link has since been updated to note that the story is false</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Error-prone far-right outlet The Gateway Pundit and its founder Jim Hoft</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fellow Gateway Pundit writer Cassandra Fairbanks (who has also since deleted her tweet, which was captured via CrowdTangle)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracy theorist and Newsmax TV host Wayne Allyn Root</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Far-right outlet Big League Politics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wohl’s father and frequent Fox guest David Wohl</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Radio host Bill Mitchell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reddit’s “r/The_Donald” subreddit and 4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board known as “/pol/”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to social media analytics website BuzzSumo, links to articles that pushed the false claim received more than 31,000 Facebook and Twitter shares combined. The original Medium post also received at least 60,000 Facebook engagements.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Update (5/1/19): OANN has since aired a segment acknowledging that the allegation against Buttigieg was a hoax from Wohl. On the April 30 edition of The Daily Ledger, guest host Alex Salvi talked about Wohl’s “smear effort” without noting that his own network had pushed the same allegation a day earlier, mocklingly saying, “I mean, we were supposed to believe that Buttigieg announced his candidacy and then immediately went and sexually assaulted someone? It makes no sense.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Short Link</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://mm4a.org/4R3">http://mm4a.org/4R3</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">copy link</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Network/Outlet</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One America News Network, Gateway Pundit, Reddit, 4chan</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Person</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Joseph Watson, Cassandra Fairbanks, Jim Hoft, Wayne Allyn Root, David Wohl, Bill Mitchell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Show/Publication</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Infowars, Big League Politics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stories/Interests</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fake News, <b>Alt-right and pro-Trump trolls</b></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-one-america-news-network-report-reveals-obama-aides-plotted-coup-against"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-one-america-news-network-report-reveals-obama-aides-plotted-coup-against</font></a></div><div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JENNIFER FRANCO (ANCHOR): Well, a new report reveals several key aides to the Obama administration plotted a coup against President Trump in a desperate effort to stay in power. One America’s Kristian Rouz has more on the deep state’s war against the president.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KRISTIAN ROUZ: An alleged plot by the Obama administration to destroy President Donald Trump is now being revealed, shedding light on the motivation behind fierce attacks against him by the mainstream media. In a new book out today, titled <b><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump</em>, former New York Times editor Edward Klein</b> cites several inside sources from the Obama White House inner circle. The author explains the largely debunked Russian collusion narrative as a consequence of a plot arranged by top Obama aides aimed at setting President Trump up for impeachment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[...]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The author argues America's radical left has joined forces to stage a coup against President Donald Trump and return the power back to the political elites, special interests, and the mainstream media.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Previously</em>:</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/10/24/one-america-news-calls-white-nationalist-generation-identity-patriotic-group/218321" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pro-Trump One America News network calls a European white nationalist organization a “patriotic group”</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/20/trump-tweet-about-uk-crime-and-muslims-mirrors-segment-conspiracy-mongering-network-oann/218281&source=gmail&ust=1508967686785000&usg=AFQjCNGfbPiS9-j45qabOOYpqdMw1fwtXw" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/20/trump-tweet-about-uk-crime-and-muslims-mirrors-segment-conspiracy-mongering-network-oann/218281" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump tweet about UK crime and Muslims mirrors segment from conspiracy-mongering network OANN</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/02/14/pro-trump-propaganda-outlets-are-blaming-obama-shadow-government-massive-anti-trump-protests/215343" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pro-Trump propaganda outlets are blaming an Obama shadow government for massive anti-Trump protests</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/23/more-than-30-reporters-from-across-the-spectrum/205745&source=gmail&ust=1509472767791000&usg=AFQjCNHfzKjNBYr9EGL5OdfD7WS-g-k4Ww" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/23/more-than-30-reporters-from-across-the-spectrum/205745" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">More than 30 reporters from across the spectrum explain why you shouldn't trust anti-Clinton author Ed Klein</a> </font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>