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In the past, Republicans and Democrats had some famous alliances: conservative President Ronald Reagan and liberal House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Massachusetts), conservative Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and centrist Democrat Joe Biden. And veteran Democratic strategist James Carville is married to a famous conservative consultant: Mary Matalin, who left the GOP in 2016 and joined the Libertarian Party.

But President Donald Trump is known for vilifying both liberals and conservatives who disagree with him.

Comedian and Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, on the panel show "The Five," expressed disbelief that some liberals don't want to be friends with a Trump supporter like himself. And he made that argument on more than one broadcast.

Gutfeld told other panelists, "What does that mean to me if I'm your Republican friend who voted for Trump? That you would believe I would support a Nazi? We've been friends for years. ... How were we friends for ten, 20 years — and now, you found out I was a fascist? How did that happen? You knew I was a right-winger in the 1980s and 1990s — and now, all of a sudden, you're like, 'I can't be seen with him.'"

But liberal Fox News pundit Jessica Tarlov explained why liberals have a problem with Trump supporters, describing Trump as a "completely, morally bankrupt person."

Tarlov told Gutfeld, "Care leads to voting, and then voting leads to bad policies that make life harder. ... Because you like him, he's my president."

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Although Fox News and Fox Business are decidedly right-wing on the whole, Fox News has one liberal panelist who often butts heads with her colleagues: Jessica Tarlov. And President Donald Trump angrily railed against her during a Monday night, April 6 rant on his Truth Social platform.

Trump posted, "For Fox executives only, take Jessica Tarlov off the air. She is, from her voice, to her lies, and everything else about her, one of the worst 'personalities' on television, a real loser! People cannot stand watching her. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT."

But Trump went after one of Fox News' conservative hosts, Shannon Bream, as well.

"Tell Shannon Bream of FoxNews that it's not the Save Act, it’s the Save America Act, a big difference!," Trump posted. "Also, when she insists on having lightweight Democrat Congressmen, such as Jake Auchincloss, on her not very hard hitting show, she should correct them when they spew out Democrat propaganda and lies. She never does! I always close deals, unlike the Dems, and did great with China in every way, also, unlike the Dems!"

The Daily Beast's Cameron Adams notes that it is "unclear what triggered Trump" about Tarlov and inspired him to "offer unsolicited advice to the bosses at his favorite network about his least-favorite presenter."

"Tarlov is the latest in a growing line of female journalists to be targeted by Trump," Adams observes. "On April 1, he lost his cool with NewsNation's Libbey Dean, who had asked him whether Iran would have to make a deal for him to end the U.S. military intervention. 'You're a fresh person, you know?' Trump snapped. 'We've had a lot of problems with you, haven’t we?' In March, on board Air Force One, Trump opened fire on a female reporter from ABC. 'I think it's maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet,' he said. 'I don’t want any more from ABC.'

The Daily Beast reporter adds, "In February, the president laid into CNN's Kaitlan Collins, 33, when she asked him what he would like to say to the survivors of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."

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January 13, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): You create the environment and then you complain about the consequences. When you kick over a beehive, don't complain when the bees come back at you. When you poke a bear, don't say, "I can't believe the bear is chasing me."

JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): You have a right to stand there and yell at officers --

GUTFELD: That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about -- you guys are deliberately creating an environment so that there is chaos, and when there is chaos, you go, "Oh, my god, someone gets hurt." What do you expect in chaos?

TARLOV: You don't think that they're trying to create chaos?

GUTFELD: Yes.

TARLOV: No, the ICE officers.

GUTFELD: These organizations desire chaos. How naive are you?

DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): You wouldn't have this chaos if Minnesota police cooperated with the federal government.

TARLOV: There are Americans being pulled out of their cars. Americans.

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): You know why, Jessica? Because they're getting in the way. Why do you think she got pulled out?

TARLOV: Yeah, that woman driving to her doctor's appointment --

GUTFELD: She was just a mom in the wrong place? You guys lie about all of this.

WATTERS: That's another hoax. You're going to find out tomorrow, she was not going to a doctor's appointment. She was obstructing an ICE operation. And these resignations, Jessica, that's another hoax. It's already been debunked. How can you look at these videos --

TARLOV: Debunked by who?

WATTERS: By everybody, hours ago that was debunked. They resigned in like October.

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One primetime Fox News host appeared to downplay one prominent recent instance of right-wing political violence while exclusively blaming the left for the rise in political violence across the United States.

During the Monday episode of Fox News' "The Five," co-host Greg Gutfeld was arguing that the increase in political violence was one-sided, when liberal co-panelist Jessica Tarlov asked him about the murder of former **Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D), who was murdered along with her husband Mark in June. The alleged murderer also shot Minnesota state senator Jon Hoffman (D) and his wife, Yvette — though they survived – and had a "hit list" of 45 other political leaders, all of whom were Democrats. Sen. Hoffman was shot nine times, while his wife was shot eight times.

"You want to talk about Melissa Hortman? Did you know her name before it happened? None of us did," he said. "None of us were spending every single day talking about Mrs. Hortman. I never heard of her until after she died!"

READ MORE:'You will live in exile': Vance and Stephen Miller threaten the left in call for 'unity'

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"Don't play that bulls--- with me," Gutfeld said after a pause. "You know what I'm saying is, there was no demonization, amplification of that woman before she died. It was a specific crime against her by someone who knew her."

"The fact of the matter is, the 'both sides' argument, not only doesn't fly, we don't care," he added. "We don't care about your both sides argument. That s--- is dead. There is no cognitive dissonance on our side."

The conversation about political violence comes in the wake of last week's murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. While the alleged shooter was registered non-partisan, he was raised by Republican parents and his grandmother told the Daily Mail that she wasn't aware of a single Democrat in the shooter's family. Messages on bullets found in the alleged shooter's rifle have been linked to obscure memes and niche video game references. No ideological motive has yet been confirmed.

READ MORE:'He's not doing well': Psychologists say Trump showing telltale signs of 'early dementia'

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The Daily Beast reports Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov is trolling White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for “gushing over Donald Trump’s peacemaking skills.”

On Tuesday, Leavitt called Trump “the peace president” and claimed that “American leadership is back on the world stage.”

“What we’ve witnessed President Trump accomplish over the last two days is nothing short of remarkable,” Leavitt told reporters in the Oval Office, while ribbing “… the weakness and incompetence of Joe Biden for foolishly allowing the killing to start in the first place.”

READ MORE: Trump just crossed a line no other president ever dared to

The Beast reports Leavitt claimed presidents “traveled halfway around the world to apologize for America,” but Trump “firmly restored America’s status as the undisputed leader of the free world.”

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Amid Leavitt’s claim, Russia targeted Ukraine overnight with nearly 600 drones and 40 missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Most of the weapons were intercepted by Ukraine's air defenses, but at least one person was killed and 15 injured.

Tarlov, the most liberal co-host of Fox News’ “The Five” posted on her X account on Wednesday: “I’m sure next to standing up for America in the dictionary it reads, ‘Putin wants to make a deal for me.’”

Tarlov was likely referencing the Monday incident when Trump was caught on a hot mic telling French President Emmanuel Macron, “I think he wants to make a deal for me. Do you understand that? As crazy as it sounds.”

READ MORE: 'They said it's a felony': Police yank Dem lawmaker out of bathroom for speaking to media

Her comment drew anger from MAGA elements on X, with commenters calling her “ugly” and “hateful,” among other insults.

The Beast also reports Leavitt was photographed sitting in a gold armchair usually reserved for heads of state. The Beast reports Trump is often seated there himself.

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Fox News scoffed that Andry Hernandez was “just a gay barber” when Trump sent him to a torture prison. Now, Fox ignores reporting that he was sexually assaulted there.

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 08/04/25

Fox News regularly downplayed concerns that the Trump administration’s denial of due process had resulted in immigrants sent in error to a notorious foreign prison, with one host mocking interest in the plight of a man he described as “just a gay barber.” That man, Andry Hernández Romero, said last week that he was beaten by guards, one of whom forced him to perform oral sex, during his 125 days in captivity.

Fox personalities were elated in March when the Trump administration dubiously invoked a rarely utilized wartime authority to deport over 250 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a megaprison known for its brutal conditions. The network had spent 2024 concocting a bogus narrative about a “migrant crime wave,” and they quickly and uncritically adopted the administration’s justification that it had targeted violent Tren de Aragua gang members for this treatment.

While Fox’s stable of propagandists bleated that the deportees were “the worst of the worst,” CBS News reviewed the names and found that three-quarters had no criminal record in the United States. Indeed, the group included people like Hernández, a gay 32-year-old makeup artist who entered the U.S. legally and passed a preliminary asylum screening. He had no criminal record or removal order but was detained and ultimately shipped to El Salvador over concerns about his wrist tattoos — crowns with the words “Mom” and “Dad” next to them.

Rather than express concerns over the U.S. government using such slight evidence to send people to a foreign prison known for its brutal conditions, Fox hosts ran cover for the administration. They accused critics of sympathizing with “illegal alien gangbangers,” accused them of pushing “false sob stories,” denounced news outlets that “only focused on” the innocent people sent to the torture prison rather than the supposedly guilty ones, and denied the importance of providing due process to determine which group is which.

Fox’s Jesse Watters on Andry Hernández: “It’s just a gay barber”

Perhaps the most disturbing discussion came during the March 31 edition of The Five, when Jessica Tarlov, the panel show’s lone Democrat, drew derision from right-wing co-hosts Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld for repeatedly directing the show’s attention to Hernández’s plight.

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From the March 31, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

“Time magazine was there when the gay barber from Venezuela who had a crown tattoo that said ‘mom’ was being processed coming into the El Salvadoran — oh, am I boring you again?” Tarlov said at one point. “I'm sorry.”

“No,” Watters replied. “But you've been talking about this gay barber from El Salvador with some stupid tattoo for weeks. Weeks, Jessica.”

“It's just a gay barber,” Watters added.

“He’s not into you,” Gutfeld interjected.

“He's an innocent guy who got swept up in a deportation, and hopefully we get it figured out and straightened out,” Watters continued. “But a lot of people in this country, Jessica, get arrested for things that they didn't do, get falsely accused, falsely convicted.”

“That doesn't mean you stop arresting criminals because one guy was arrested who was innocent,” Watters concluded. “It just means you just try to do it better the next time.”

What we did to Andry Hernández

Four months after that segment, the Trump administration managed to have Hernández returned to Venezuela as part of a prisoner exchange. Unfortunately, the administration didn’t “get it figured out and straightened out” before he was brutalized by guards, one of whom forced his penis into Hernández’s mouth and made him perform oral sex, Hernández subsequently told interviewers.

“Hernandez says the prison was hot and quiet. Guards would drag inmates out of their cells and beat them if they made too much noise,” NPR’s Manuel Rueda reported on July 27. “He slept on a metal plank without a mattress and shared his cell with up to 19 people. There was a toilet in each cell but no walls to separate it from the rest of the room.”

Rueda further reported that, according to Hernández, he was punished with confinement in a smaller cell “after guards caught him bathing outside regulatory hours. He says he was beaten with batons by three wardens in the small room and forced to perform oral sex on one of the guards.”

“In that prison, human rights don't exist, and the guards take pleasure out of seeing others suffer.” Rueda translated Hernández saying.

NBC News likewise reported on July 28 that Hernández said that “one day during his imprisonment he was taken to solitary confinement, where prison staff ‘made me kneel, perform oral sex on one person, while the others groped me and touched my private parts’ and ‘stroked me with their batons.’”

Fox has not reported on Hernández’s account, according to a Media Matters review.

And while Watters had expressed his vague hope for Hernández that “we get it figured out,” The Five is instead focused on issues he apparently finds more important.

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July 23, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): This is such old news, it's beyond comprehension that we're talking about it. And I understand that this Epstein situation is very tricky for the administration, and day by day it gets worse and worse and worse, but they are pulling out all of the greatest hits to try to inflame the minds of their most, you know, conspiracy theory-addled base, so that they hear "Brennan, Clapper, Obama, Hillary," and they get activated, and suddenly they won't be mad at Trump anymore for not releasing the Epstein files, or whatever he had to do with any of it. It's preposterous that we're talking about Hillary Clinton's emails again in the year 2025 --

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): We have no choice. We spent years on this story --

TARLOV: You know what your choice is?

GUTFELD: No, let me -- we had to take this story seriously for years, and it was false.

TARLOV: It wasn't false.

GUTFELD: For -- no, no. For people to understand what happened, all right, because the problem with this story is that nobody knows what you're talking about. When Trump won in 2016, the intel community concluded that Russia didn't have a hand in his victory. Instead of accepting the inclusion, Obama determined and wanted a new conclusion, so he sent Brennan running to come up with a new collusion, that there was some kind of trivial involvement that then they could feed out to the media, and coincidentally dozens of news organizations said that Trump was in bed with Putin and that somehow Brennan knew. Brennan knew. How did he know? There was no proof. There was no proof --

TARLOV: Why did John Durham do nothing? Okay. Why did Durham do nothing, then?

GUTFELD: Let me finish. They amplified a false conclusion that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016. We had to spend years dealing with that. And now we're actually getting investigation, and you're saying, "No, you know what? You guys should just move on. You guys should just move" -- you say the same effing thing about Biden's brain! You guys spent four years telling us that Joe Biden was fine. You covered up for an invalid. And then when we get the truth, it's like, "Oh, you know what? It's time -- we've got to look forward. We've got to start talking about what's there."

And you can bring up Epstein all you want. We, unlike Democrats, we can handle two things, three things, four things at once. We --

TARLOV: Doesn't seem like it.

GUTFELD: No -- have you been listening to the right lately? The right is more on top of Epstein than the Democrats are. The Democrats never cared about Epstein until they saw a political motivation. The right was into the Epstein story because -- women were being sex trafficked! We actually care! But now you're like, "Ooh, Epstein, a political angle, ooh, this is fantastic." Save me your selective outrage.

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April 29, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): There are Americans that are being detained by ICE, and it's not just one person, it's not two people. Yesterday, the story from Oklahoma, a woman and her daughters, her minor daughters, asleep in their home. ICE busted --

JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): You already talked about that.

TARLOV: No, I didn't, it was another -- that's the thing --

PIRRO: Oh, this is another mother with two kids?

TARLOV: Well, the first mother had three kids, I'm glad you're so interested. But yes, this is multiple families being devastated by ICE. But this one is American and that's why it matters. ICE came into the house. There had been people, immigrants, who had lived there and they moved out a few weeks earlier. This family had just moved in. They came in, they made them go outside, including the girls, were taken outside in their underwear. They took their money and their electronics. This is an American family. If that happened to any --

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Alright, Jessica. No one even believes your stories anymore. They always fall apart.

PIRRO: Yeah, and you know what, they rectified it.

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TARLOV: Literally none of it has fallen apart.

WATTERS: What about the Maryland dad? Whatever happened to him?

TARLOV: That didn't fall apart. He's still some prison --

WATTERS: He's MS-13, Jessica.

TARLOV: He is not --

PIRRO: And there are two orders of deportation on him and he lied about being afraid to go back to El Salvador because he had to admit he was an MS-13 gang member --

TARLOV: Keep going back to one person that you think you have a case about --

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PIRRO: Jessica, let me tell you something --

TARLOV: If someone dragged you out of your house in the middle of the night, you would kill somebody. Literally.

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Fox News turns a blind eye as cancer research funding gets decimated by the Trump administration

The network apparently aired only 2 segments about NIH cuts that mentioned the impacts on cancer research funding in the month since they were announced

Written by Harrison Ray

Research contributions from Rob Savillo

Published 03/13/25 mma

The Trump administration's recent attacks on the NIH have resulted in significant funding cuts, severely impacting cancer research across the country. The cuts include a drastic reduction in the reimbursement rate for indirect costs from an average of 27-28% to a proposed cap of 15%, potentially leading to billions of dollars in losses for research institutions. The funding cuts are affecting a wide range of programs, including precision therapy, quality of life studies, artificial intelligence applications in cancer research, and state clinical trial programs.

Experts warn that these funding reductions could have severe consequences for cancer research and patient care. Some researchers fear that the cuts will lead to delayed discoveries, stalled clinical trials, and a potential exodus of talented scientists from the field, ultimately hindering progress in developing lifesaving treatments for cancer patients.

Pediatric cancer research, which already receives less than 4% of all federal funds for cancer research, is particularly sensitive to these cuts:

Many universities rely on NIH reimbursements to maintain the kind of high-tech facilities and highly trained staff that are necessary to conduct clinical trials and other forms of medical research. Pediatric cancer research, in particular, is often expensive due to the relative rarity of many childhood cancers, the smaller number of patients able to participate in trials, and the need for specialized equipment capable of accommodating the physiology of small children.

“The proposed NIH funding cuts pose a significant threat to the future of pediatric cancer research and could severely impact the progress of life-saving treatments,” Danielle Fragalla, the Chief Executive Officer of Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, said. “With research institutions facing multi-billion-dollar losses, the ability to fund new and ongoing studies–including those focused on childhood cancer, survivorship, and equitable care–could be drastically reduced.”

Of the 2 segments about NIH funding cuts that mention cancer research, 1 came from the network's left-leaning co-host of The Five, Jessica Tarlov, and the other came from a flippant comment by Fox host Brian Kilmeade in a segment obfuscating the topic. Tarlov was also responsible for one of the other three passing mentions about the funding.

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Jessica Tarlov, a progresive Fox News host, attempted to fact check conservative co-host Jeanine Pirro on Thursday over Republicans' narrative that the New Orleans truck attack that left 14 people dead was due to illegal immigration.

"When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true," President-elect Donald Trump wrote in a statement in response to the tragedy. "Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!"

In her response to President Joe Biden's statement, on the other hand, Mediate reports that Tarlov said to Pirro, "When you say, 'I’m embarrassed watching Joe Biden,’ I’m not embarrassed seeing someone stand up there and saying, 'Let’s wait for some facts here,' because Donald Trump went out there and he said…"

READ MORE:**'Disgrace': GOP senator slammed for 'tone deaf' remark in response to terror attack**

Tarlov was then interrupted by the right-wing host.

"No, he assured Americans all was well," Pirro shot back.

"No, listen to all of the comments that he made and the statements which said we need to make sure we have the right facts," Tarlov replied, "and the right facts were that the guy in New Orleans was an American. He wasn’t an illegal."

Pirro then said, "No one’s saying he wasn’t."

"That’s not true!" Tarlov protested. "There have been Republicans who have been on TV today talking about how this was an open border problem."

READ MORE:**FBI issued 'vehicle-ramming' warning ahead of Bourbon Street mass casualty incident: report**

Pirro replied, "Seventy-five percent of the arrests in New York City are illegals! Let’s stop playing games!"

Tarlov shot back, "Move the goalposts! Move them as far as you want. Sugar Bowl-wide! Whatever."

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How Fox News has been misinforming its viewers about abortion

Written by Jane Lee, Isabella Corrao & Helena Hind

Published 11/04/24 mma

In the months leading up to the first presidential election since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Fox News has ignored the positive public health impacts of Vice President Kamala Harris’ pro-choice policy proposals. The network has instead portrayed abortion as an insignificant issue in the election, accused Democrats of fearmongering that former President Donald Trump and Republicans want to restrict access to reproductive rights, and falsely claimed that Democrats want no restrictions on abortions to the point of allowing so-called “post-birth” abortions.

Candidate positions on abortion — and Fox News spin

* After co-host Jessica Tarlov criticized Trump for laughing about a Georgia woman who died after doctors delayed lifesaving treatment for abortion-related complications, Gutfeld responded, “He should've said, ‘It’s the Democrats have been lying about it, creating a completely false story.’” Fox News, *The Five*, [10/16/24; ProPublica, 9/16/24]

Fox News neglected to cover reporting about the deaths of two women in Texas who sought abortion care during medical emergencies. The network once again failed to inform its viewers of the fatal consequences of abortion bans at the state level.}: Media Matters, [11/4/24]|

The Five* co-host Jeanine Pirro argued that more women were concerned about the combined issues of economy and immigration than abortion: “When women talk about immigration, when you put the economy and immigration together, it beats abortion by 32 points.” Fox News, *The Five*, [10/16/24]

Denying that Trump supported a national abortion ban, co-host Ainsley Earhardt suggested that people in Alabama don’t want abortion rights,}: saying, “If you live in New York, you probably always get an abortion. If you live in Alabama, maybe not. I don't know, but it’s whatever you decide as the voter of the state.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [10/22/24]|

Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway claimed that “Tim Walz himself allows babies that survive an abortion — it’s rare, but it happens — allows them to not have standard of care, warmth, food, water, liquids. You just have to let them ‘expire.’”}:She continued, “That’s not what pro-choice women say they mean when they call themselves pro-choice.” Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*, [9/13/24]|

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Fox knows it’s lying about immigrants and disaster aid

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 10/10/24 mma

Fox News hosts and anchors have in hand evidence that their network obtained from a Republican source debunking a falsehood the network has repeatedly promoted about the Hurricane Helene response. They do not care — and are in many cases continuing to push the same lie — because they work for a propaganda outlet whose primary objective is helping former President Donald Trump return to the White House.

Fox chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram landed a big scoop on Tuesday night, posting to X about how he had “obtained a fact sheet assembled by the majority side of [the] House Appropriations Committee about disaster aid” for Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.

He keyed in on the fact sheet’s statements about aid to immigrants, writing: “It also declares there is ‘no funding connection between’ the migrant shelter program and the Disaster Relief Fund. It adds there is ‘no intermingling of funding between these two programs.’ It adds that ‘the only connection is that both programs are administered by FEMA.’”

This is important because Trump had repeatedly tried to link the programs for his own political gain, claiming that there was no money for hurricane disaster aid because President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had spent it all on helping immigrants — and Fox’s propagandists and the rest of the Trumpist media chimed in. The Biden administration and mainstream news outlets had debunked these lies, but Pergram’s scoop revealed that House Republicans — a source Fox viewers would be more likely to trust — knew they were false.

Fox’s response over the 24 hours after Pergram posted about the fact sheet provides an instructive case study about how the network functions:

  1. On Wednesday morning, Fox News continued to push the falsehood on Fox & Friends, with contributor Miranda Devine claiming that “FEMA was handing out money to illegal migrants instead of keeping it for hurricane victims.”
  1. At around the same time on Fox Business, anchor Maria Bartiromo appeared to reference the House Republican memo Pergram obtained — but only to attack it, asking House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) whether his colleagues were “lying” (“It’s all FEMA money,” he replied in part).
  1. Pergram did not appear on either network until the lower-rated midday programs — and his packaged report did not address the immigrant funding misinformation that Fox had spread.
  1. On The Five, Jessica Tarlov and Jeanine Pirro sparred inconclusively without mentioning the GOP fact sheet over whether Trump’s claims about disaster aid money going to immigrants was a lie. Jesse Watters ended the discussion by telling Tarlov, “Americans are dying and you're talking about Donald Trump.”

9. That evening on Fox’s flagship “news” show, Special Report anchor Bret Baier did not reference the GOP fact sheet but mentioned in passing that there has been a “back and forth about FEMA money going to immigrants, there is a pot, it’s just different than the disaster pot where the money comes from.”

  1. The network’s high-rated evening Trumpist propagandists all continued to claim money that should have gone to disaster aid went instead to migrants on Wednesday night. Laura Ingraham claimed FEMA money had gone to “sheltering migrants” that “should be spent and allocated to shoring up disaster management for Americans, not on illegal aliens.” Watters claimed that “FEMA admitted they wasted a billion on migrants” and that the agency had been “leaving Americans hanging, but bending over backwards to help foreigners who broke into the country.” And Sean Hannity **said the Biden administration claimed to be running out of funds for disaster aid after FEMA “distributed more than a billion dollars to house and feed Harris and Biden unvetted illegal immigrants.”

A real news outlet would want to get that information out to ensure that its audience knew the facts. But Fox is a Trumpist propaganda outlet, and they acted instead to reinforce the right-wing media bubble that keeps their viewers from the truth.

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Fox News misrepresented ICE data on immigration and crime in over 50 segments

85% of Fox segments about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics included misrepresentations of the data even after multiple Fox personalities attempted to debunk the falsehoods

Written by Rob Savillo

Research contributions from Tyler Monroe & Harrison Ray

Published 10/01/24

Since September 27, when GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) released data on immigration and crime that he requested from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fox News has misrepresented the meaning of the statistics over and over: In 53 of 62 segments about the data (or 85%), Fox spun the information to promote a number of falsehoods about immigration and crime in the U.S.

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Media Matters found at least two instances of Fox News personalities or reporters attempting to debunk the false claims about the ICE statistics that were spread widely on the network: one from The Five co-host Jessica Tarlov and another from Los Angeles-based correspondent Bill Melugin. Both instances occurred the same day the data were released.

Moreover, the Department of Homeland Security subsequently issued a statement to media outlets September 28, which was included in a fact check by CNN the following day, properly contextualizing the numbers from ICE:

The data in this letter is being misinterpreted. The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this Administration. It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners.

When Fox did include the proper context from DHS or ICE — or even from their own reporters — the network continued to push false narratives about immigration and crime. Fox personalities and guests downplayed, undermined, or dismissed the clarifications in more than half of such segments: 17 segments, or 57%.

* Right-wing media ran with those false characterizations of the data, and they were bolstered by former President Donald Trump's misrepresentations in several social media posts.

Trump posted the false claim that “13,000 convicted murderers entered our Country during her [Kamala Harris'] three and a half year period as Border Czar,” followed up with another falsehood, “almost 14,000 MURDERERS to freely and openly roam our Country,” and finally double-downed on both false statements with another post, writing, “14,000 CONVICTED thugs and slimeballs who have committed MURDER have been allowed to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, and roam free.”

Such rhetoric is not only false and misleading; it intentionally stokes unwarranted fears about immigrants and crime, specifically those who have crossed the southern U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump campaign has been using these misrepresentations to unfairly attack Vice President Kamala Harris' record — despite the fact that immigrants in general are more law-abiding than native-born Americans and that studies have consistently shown that undocumented immigrants do not commit more crime than U.S. citizens.

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fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of turning a conversation with Black journalists into a "dumpster fire."

At the National Association of Black Journalists conference on Wednesday, Trump began by calling ABC News host Rachel Scott's questions "horrible" and "nasty."

Tarlov reacted to the Fox panel with shock.

"My reaction is that it was a complete, absolute dumpster fire for the former president," she told host Martha MacCallum. "I don't feel the need to give him any credit for showing up there because he came with a terrible attitude."

"He hit all of his regular hits, lying about his record for Black Americans," she continued. "The comparison saying he's done the most for the Black community since Abraham Lincoln is obviously ridiculous.

"I thought that he was rude and offensive to the questioners."

Tarlov noted that Trump hadargued with Scott over whether presumed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris was a "DEI hire."

"And then his response, that she used to be Indian and is now somehow Black, was offensive no matter the color of your skin," the Fox News contributor said.

MacCallum quickly interrupted to defend Trump.

"She has an Indian mother and a Jamaican father," MacCallum said of Harris.

"Right, she's Black!" Tarlov exclaimed.

"But she has an Indian mother and a Black father," MacCallum repeated. "So those are two different backgrounds."

Watch the video below from Fox News.

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