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Fox is using climate denial to undermine bipartisan support for AI safeguards
Fox personalities and guests compare AI warnings to supposedly discredited climate predictions, drawing on decades of attacks on climate science to cast widely supported protections as another bid for power and control
*Special* ProgramsClimate & Energy
Written by Evlondo Cooper
Published 10/08/26
In September, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from the company, issuing a stark warning that increasingly powerful AI systems could threaten human survival. To date, his September 9 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper has received nearly 10 million views on YouTube, and industry insiders are calling for stronger safeguards and increased government involvement. As those warnings drew wider attention, Fox News and Fox Business hosts and guests dismissed them as the next manufactured panic from people they claimed were already proven wrong about global warming.
In addition to portraying climate change as a political hoax that has run its course (with AI now supposedly taking its place), both Fox networks have characterized calls for safeguards as an election-year scare tactic, a pretext for government control, and a threat to innovation — even as polling shows broad support for AI oversight among Republicans as well as Democrats.
Fox has already cast local opposition to data centers as a threat to American competitiveness, with many network personalities crediting foreign influence for the backlash, even as resistance has spread through Republican communities and divided conservative media. By associating AI warnings with climate “alarmism,” Fox draws on the distrust it spent years cultivating in order to now discredit calls for limits on an industry it has championed.
Warnings about catastrophic AI risks are drawing national coverage and calls for safeguards
- Former AI researchers and industry executives have warned that increasingly powerful systems could outpace efforts to control them, prompting debate over the pace of development and the need for government oversight. Public statements and television interviews have brought those concerns to wider audiences, with warnings about potential threats to human survival accompanying calls for stronger safeguards.
- Jacob Coxon’s interview with Anderson Cooper has drawn nearly 10 million views on YouTube. Coxon warned that future AI systems capable of improving themselves could threaten human survival and called for international oversight. [CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, 9/9/26]
- Coxon continued to raise concerns about the pace of AI development in a subsequent PBS interview. On PBS News Hour, Coxon discussed how increasingly capable systems could accelerate their own development and outpace efforts to establish safeguards. [PBS News Hour, 9/17/26]
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slower AI development and independent oversight. In his September 12 essay “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Amodei wrote, “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.” He argued that safety work needed time to keep up with advances in AI and called for companies to give “ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators.” He also called for governments to coordinate internationally on AI safety. [Dario Amodei, 9/12/26]
Climate “alarmism” has become a recurring reference point for dismissing AI warnings
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been a frequent target of Fox’s attacks on AI safeguards since he and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) announced forthcoming legislation on September 3 to ban artificial superintelligence and pause advanced AI development until a federal regulator establishes safety rules. Hosts and guests have invoked Sanders’ past climate warnings to dismiss his proposals as another manufactured panic.
- Those attacks echo President Donald Trump’s dismissal of calls to slow AI development as a “hoax” and right-wing media’s comparisons to climate change and “COVID hysteria.” Across Fox News and Fox Business, hosts and guests have used the same claims that climate predictions had failed in order to portray calls for AI safeguards as an election-year scare tactic and a threat to innovation.
- Fox Business host Larry Kudlow: “The AI Armageddon, like the climate hoax, is an election-year Democratic ruse.” Kudlow compared calls to halt AI development to Democrats’ “existential hysteria” over climate change, claiming climate policies would have caused “our complete economic ruination” without Trump’s reelection. He cast Anthropic and OpenAI as Democrats’ “fellow travelers” and argued that letting “free enterprise work its magic” would allow the U.S. to outpace China. [Fox Business, Kudlow, 9/14/26]
- Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones claimed Sanders’ previous climate timeline meant “we should have already been dead.” Jones then described people warning about AI as “the same alarmists that jumped from scandal to scandal of doomsday.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/17/26]
- Fox News contributor and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt invoked climate warnings to dismiss AI “doomerism” and argue for trusting the marketplace. Hewitt dismissed lawmakers from both parties as “not smart enough yet to tell the country what to do” and rejected business leaders’ “self-interests” in setting rules for AI. He then explained, “I’m not into AI doomerism at all because we’ve heard this all before with climate change and global warming and nuclear winter. I’m just not alarmed by anything.” [Fox News, America Reports, 9/17/26]
- As a guest host on Gutfeld!, Lisa Kennedy Montgomery claimed Democrats were “replacing global warming heroin with tech-pocalypse fentanyl.” Attacking California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s AI safeguards, Kennedy described climate change as “the hysteria flavor those statist freaks served up to scare people into votes and higher taxes.” She added, “Well, here we are, all still here, along with the polar bears and ice caps.” [Fox News, Gutfeld!, 9/18/26]
- Guest host Michael Lee argued that Democrats’ climate warnings were grounds to reject their calls for AI regulation. Lee asked why policymakers should heed “the same people that were telling you climate change was an existential threat,” then asked, “Why do we need to do something special?” He characterized AI regulation as “stifling innovation at the behest of the richest people in the world to ring fence their industry.” [Fox Business, Mornings with Fox Business, 9/21/26]
- Fox News host Will Cain invoked supposedly failed climate warnings to dismiss AI concerns as “the boy who cried wolf.” After playing a 2019 video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) discussing the dangers of climate change, Cain said she was “exaggerating” an “end of the world prophecy” and cited increasing coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef to discredit climate predictions. [Fox News, The Will Cain Show, 9/25/26]
- Fox Business host Stuart Varney accused “climate warriors” of linking “climate disaster to AI disaster.” On Varney & Co., he dismissed Ocasio-Cortez’s concerns about AI as “irrational fear mongering” and “blatant distortion of reality to enhance a political position.” [Fox Business, Varney & Co., 9/29/26]
Fox is recycling climate denial to discredit cross-partisan concern about AI
- Climate denial campaigns targeted public agreement that once crossed party lines. In 1997, 68% of strong Republicans and 72% of strong Democrats accepted the science of global warming. The following year, a communications plan developed by the American Petroleum Institute, fossil fuel companies, and allied groups sought to transform scientific uncertainty into conventional wisdom. By December 2009, Fox was explicitly directing reporters to question the accuracy of climate data whenever they reported that the planet was warming.
- Fox now treats climate warnings as discredited while ignoring what efforts to address global warming have accomplished. The International Energy Agency, for example, has estimated that solar, wind, nuclear power, electric cars, and heat pumps deployed since 2019 avoided 2.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually by 2024, even as global emissions continued to rise. Fox elides those benefits to portray climate warnings as an exercise in needless alarm and is now using that reasoning to argue against safeguards for AI.
- But support for AI safeguards crosses party lines. Ipsos found in March that 67% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans wanted the federal government to ensure AI outputs do not cause harm. A June Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute survey found that 88% of Democrats, 86% of independents, and 83% of Republicans wanted a “guaranteed off switch” for the most powerful AI systems. More recently, a CNN poll found that 85% of Democrats, 67% of independents, and 63% of Republicans believed the federal government was not doing enough to regulate AI’s development.
- Fox News and Fox Business are using their legacy of climate denial to undermine that bipartisan support. Decades of campaigns to discredit climate science helped turn broad agreement about global warming into a partisan divide that protected fossil fuel interests. By dismissing people raising concerns about AI as “the same alarmists,” hosts and guests draw on that distrust to portray widely supported safeguards as the work of discredited experts and advocates seeking power and control, making opposition to oversight a matter of political allegiance.
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The delusional right-wing media figures declaring victory in Iran
The Trump administration’s war of aggression against Iran has failed to achieve its stated objectives. Just don’t tell that to its most die-hard sycophants.
Written by John Knefel
Published 08/28/26
By any objective metric, the Trump administration has failed in its war of aggression against Iran. Once maximalist goals of destroying Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons program have been tabled. In the United States, energy costs — especially diesel fuel — are skyrocketing, while missile stockpiles are dwindling. Iran has exerted control over the Strait of Hormuz, an outcome U.S. war planners had long predicted in the event of an extended conflict. Reports that the U.S. military has wrested control of the waterway should be taken with a shipping-freighter-sized grain of salt, as recent data shows that traffic through the strait dwindled on Thursday, and even days with the most activity only reached to about half of pre-war levels.
But what if all of that wasn’t the case? What if President Donald Trump had already won the war, and the only thing that was missing, geopolitically speaking, was the recognition of that fact? That would really be something. And, thanks to a set of especially sycophantic pundits aligned with the White House, that alternate reality is just one livestream or TV show away.
Fox News’ Sean Hannity, as reliable a hack for the Trump administration as you can find on cable news, argued on August 19 that the president hadn’t gotten enough “credit” for stopping Iran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb. (Of course, an obvious consequence of bombing a country, assassinating its leadership, and threatening to destroy its entire civilization is that the new government, entirely rationally, is more interested than ever in developing a nuclear deterrent to avoid such attacks being repeated.)
Hannity also claimed that Iran was “breaking financially,” though close observers believe it is well-positioned to withstand even escalated U.S. sanctions.
The next day, CNN contributor Scott Jennings — currently auditioning for the role of White House press secretary — was even more obsequious.
“It may be time for the president to declare victory in this war because it's obvious that we've won,” Jennings said on his YouTube show.
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MAGA media influencer Benny Johnson was similarly shameless, titling an August 21 segment: “Iran's President SURRENDERS | Calls To 'End The War' With America Immediately As US CONQUERS Hormuz.” Then, on August 22: “Iran Thought They Won…Now It’s All OVER | How Trump Secretly DESTROYED Them Without a Single Bomb.”
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On August 24, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a series of punishing sanctions on Iran — a so-called “economic D-Day” — and much of the right-wing media coverage framed it as the latest sign of victory.
That morning, Fox News’ Lawrence Jones, echoing a recurring theme in right-wing media, argued, “You know what’s worse that no new wars — and this is not a new war, this has been going on 47-plus years — is losing. And we're winning right now."
The chyron referenced a New York Post editorial headlined: “Trump is winning the Iran war— stay the course.”
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Citing Bessent’s comments, Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty claimed, “Despite what they’re saying about this war on CNN or MS NOW or in The New York Times, this war's about to end and America is about to win.”
Back on his YouTube show, Jennings offered a list of accomplishments the United States had not in fact accomplished.
“The United States has won the war against Iran,” Jennings said, arguing that “many in our political class refuse to acknowledge” this fact.
“Iran entered this war with four great pillars of strength: its nuclear program, its missiles and drones, its regional terror network, and its ability to hold the world economy hostage through the Strait of Hormuz,” Jennings said. “Every one of those pillars has been severely damaged or outright destroyed.”
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On August 26, Trump posted an image on Truth Social reading, in part, “Mission Accomplished 2026.”
Like with Bessent’s announcement, the administration’s media allies ran with it.
Johnson once again painted a rosy picture of the conflict. “Iran is effectively admitting defeat,” he said. “The Iranian leadership is saying what we all know to be true, which is that you cannot fight a war if you cannot feed your army.”
Hannity boasted that “we have a nuclear-free Iran” among a list of Trump’s supposed successes — a thin accomplishment given that Iran has never had a nuclear weapon and U.S. intelligence agencies determined as recently as last summer it was not pursuing one.
Within the first few days after the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February, right-wing media figures were eager to declare victory. Half a year later, that outcome remains easier said than done.
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February 26, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Well, we interviewed a police officer yesterday and he said all we want to hear is you have our backs. That's what leadership needs to tell us, we have your backs. We're out there putting our lives on the line to keep our communities safe. Just have our back. What if you worked for someone who never had your back? Would you stay on the job that long? No, you wouldn't. And that's what is happening in New York. Police officers are leaving in droves. They're going down to Florida where they can retire there, where they're supported and they can get a bonus if they join some of the departments in Florida. So they're leaving because they don't feel supported we're going to get to a point - New York City back to the place where we were before.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): That's it, Game of Thrones where everyone is just robbing everyone, taking their purse. I'm just telling you this, it start's with this, it starts with the snowball comparison, and it's just going to expand. So, if you don't nip it in the bud right now, it's just going to spiral. And it looks like this mayor, as you said, just wants to smile.
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Fox & Friends really does not want viewers to understand that Trump’s tariffs are taxes paid by Americans
Donald Trump illegally raised your taxes. Fox would rather not talk about it.
Written by Craig Harrington
Published 02/25/26
For the second time in a week, a Fox News personality went to bat to protect President Donald Trump from the fallout of the Supreme Court overturning his unpopular tariff policies, falsely reassuring viewers that they are not paying for Trump’s import tax scheme.
During two February 25 segments of Fox & Friends, co-host Lawrence Jones responded to criticism of Trump’s tariff policies by repeatedly (and falsely) telling viewers that the president’s critics were lying when saying his tariffs had cost American families money over the past year. His comments followed a segment last week wherein Fox host Harris Faulkner had wondered aloud whether foreign countries would seek refunds for tariffs they paid to the U.S. — before she was informed that tariffs are taxes paid by American consumers, not foreign exporters.
During today’s Fox & Friends segment, the hosts aired a portion of newly inaugurated Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s
to Trump’s State of the Union speech where she said that “everyday Americans are paying the price” of Trump’s tariffs and described his latest tariff proposal “another massive tax hike on you and your family.” Jones scolded Spanberger: “Just to be clear, what she said is 100% false,” claiming that “there has been zero inflation based on the tariffs” and that “you cannot say that it caused inflation on the American people.”
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Later, Jones returned to the topic during a segment with pollsters Kellyanne Conway and Mark Penn, discussing a portion of Spanberger’s rebuttal when the governor noted that Trump’s “reckless trade policies have forced American families to pay more than $1,700 each in tariff costs.” Jones responded that Spanberger's statement was “not true” and again added that tariffs had not been inflationary. Conway was even more direct, simply claiming, “Those are lies.”
Jones wrapped up his performative outrage by acting aghast that Spanberger would claim tariffs cost American families money. “To say it was inflationary, that it's costing you more money, the data doesn't support that, yet she told the people that,” he said.
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Americans are absolutely paying the cost of Trump’s tariffs.
As economists and experts have repeatedly explained, foreign countries do not pay tariffs. Tariffs are import taxes paid by American consumers.
Trump massively increased tariff receipts compared to 2024, raising a record-breaking amount of tariff revenue in his first year in office. The money had to come from somewhere.
And last November, The Budget Lab at Yale estimated that Trump's tariff policies had at that point cost the average American family roughly $1,700. An analysis by the Joint Economic Committee's minority staff released just last week estimated that “American consumers overall paid more than $231 billion in tariff costs between February 2025 and January 2026, an average of roughly $1,745 per family.”
Far from misleading viewers with her speech, Spanberger actually did Trump a favor by rounding the cost of his tariffs down.
And this isn’t just a question about whether or not tariffs are generally inflationary (they are) or whether Trump’s tariffs have shown up in consumer prices (they have). This is about real costs that have been passed along to actual Americans as a result of Donald Trump illegally raising their taxes.
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Right-wing media said Chicago ICE raid yielded numerous gang members' arrests. New reporting shows hardly any arrests related to Tren de Aragua.
Written by Gideon Taaffe & Sage Hodil
Published 10/16/25
Right-wing media have cheered Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s September 30 raid on a Chicago apartment, saying they arrested a dozen or dozens of “suspected Tren de Aragua gang members” in an apartment complex “seized by TdA gang members.”
However, the Department of Homeland Security told CNN that just two of the 37 arrested are believed to be gang members. And later DHS told MSNBC it has “verified” one Tren de Aragua member from the raid.
The Trump administration claims that its arrests in Chicago have targeted criminals, but there is little evidence many of the 1,000 people detained by ICE in the city have any criminal convictions. Right-wing media have previously carried water for the Trump administration’s mass deportations that allegedly focus on the “worst of the worst” even though the majority of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions.
ICE's raid on a Chicago apartment building led to dozens of arrests and four children taken into custody. New reporting shows that few if any arrested in that raid or others in Chicago have criminal or gang ties.
- CNN reported shortly after the raid that DHS said only two people arrested were believed to be a Tren de Aragua member, and MSNBC reported later that DHS said it had “verified” just one. The September 30 raid at a South Side apartment building that ICE said was “frequented by Tren de Aragua members” saw 37 people arrested but CNN reported that just two of them “are believed to be members of the Venezuelan criminal gang, according to DHS.” According to MSNBC, DHS said one person is a “verified” member of Tren de Aragua but did not say “how it had verified that gang affiliation.” CNN, [10/3/25; MSNBC, 10/13/25]
- Of the 1,000 migrants arrested in Chicago and its suburbs, the Department of Homeland Security has released details showing a criminal background for only “about 1%” of those detainees, according to MSNBC. DHS claims ICE is arresting “the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers,” but MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff said the people they are targeting “are not the worst of the worst. And I cannot say that more unequivocally and clearly enough.” Soboroff also said ICE agents are “indiscriminately rounding people up, grabbing people off the street. And I'm saying this as a reporter who has seen this with my own eyes, not the worst of the worst on the street.” MSNBC, [10/13/25; MSNBC, The Briefing with Jen Psaki, 10/7/25; MSNBC, Katy Tur Reports, 10/8/25]
- Detentions at the Chicago apartment raid included “four children who are US citizens with undocumented parents,” according to CNN.One tenant of the building described the raid, saying, “The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.” One resident who was initially detained told CNN, “Anyone with an outstanding warrant, even if it was unrelated to immigration, would not be released.” CNN, [10/3/25]
- Previous attempts to arrest people associated with Tren de Aragua based on their tattoos have led to deportations of people with no criminal records.The administration sent numerous alleged gang members to El Salvador but then acknowledged that “many” of them had no criminal records, according to CBS News. Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney, told CBS, “Expert after expert tells us tattoos are not a reliable indicator of whether you're part of this particular gang.” CBS, [4/8/25]
- ## Right-wing media bolstered suggestions that the Chicago apartment raided by ICE was full of Tren de Aragua members
- Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner claimed the building was “taken over by members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang.” Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [10/2/25]
- Fox News host Jesse Watters asserted that “dozens of Tren de Aragua members are getting Kilmared,” referencing deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, before cutting to reporting on the September 30 raid.Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/30/25]
- Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher said the operation led to “the arrest of more than a dozen suspected Tren de Aragua gang members.”Fox News,*Fox News @ Night*, [10/1/25]
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham claimed “Trump is fixing the criminal mess” in Chicago, saying that “TdA gang members in Chicago got a surprise this week” when ICE conducted an “unexpected drop-in that involved a Black Hawk helicopter and hundreds of federal agents.”Fox News reporter Mike Tobin reported, “More than a dozen were detained. At least one has a tattoo commonly associated with the Tren de Aragua gang.” Fox News,*The Ingraham Angle*, [10/1/25]
- In an interview with acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Newsmax host Emma Rechenberg claimed the apartment had been “seized by TdA gang members.”Lyons also pushed the claim, stating the building was “taken over by Tren de Aragua gang members.” Newsmax, *The National Report*, [10/8/25]
- While displaying a chyron that read “Tren de Arrested,” Fox News anchor Dana Perino said ICE agents were “targeting suspected Tren de Aragua members” in the raid and “netted 37 illegal aliens, including those associated with the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang.”Fox News, *The Five*, [10/1/25]
- The Daily Wire’s Jennie Taer wrote that the building was “teeming with suspected Tren de Aragua gang members.” The Daily Wire, [10/1/25]
- Fox & Friendsco-host Lawrence Jones complained that people are “more concerned about the children being temporarily detained, not the fact that they were around, and the same apartment complex, of Tren de Aragua, a known terrorist organization.” Jones’ comment came after Lyons claimed Tren de Aragua “took over” the building and that pictures of zip-tied children were “AI fake photos.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [10/6/25]
- ## Trump and right-wing media have claimed that ICE is targeting “the worst of the worst,” but data shows otherwise
- Earlier this year Trump claimed ICE was targeting the “worst of the worst,” yet ICE data revealed 84% of those detained at ICE facilities “were not given a threat level.” Only 5% of detainees were given the highest threat level by ICE. According to TRAC Reports, an oversight group that provides data on government operations, as of September 21, 71.5% of ICE detainees had no criminal conviction. TRAC additionally noted, “Many of those convicted committed only minor offenses, including traffic violations.” The Associated Press, [7/12/25; TRAC Reports, accessed 10/15/25]
- Right-wing media have heralded the Trump administration’s campaign promise to focus deportations on the “worst” criminals while denying the reality of the mass deportations.Fox personalities have claimed ICE is not targeting “abuelitas” or “housekeepers” but “the worst of the worst” and “hardened criminals and gang members.” Media Matters, [4/9/25]
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May 1, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): I don't care about international law. I care about the laws that govern this country. And I think we are setting a dangerous precedent that we have the courts involved with the visa process. So now every time someone doesn't like that their visa got denied or rejected, we have essentially said now that's up to the courts to decide?
Show me any statute that talks about the visa process. Sure there's laws that govern our immigration process. But, when it comes to the visa process, the secretary of state has wide discretion.
And now we have a guy that is beating his chest. He has anti-American views. He is trying to destroy a lot of the things that we hold true to our country. He stands with Hamas and a lot of the pro-Palestinian causes that are there that we don't support. And now we're letting him celebrate it outside of the courtroom. Not a good look.
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April 18, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): So let's talk Democrats. And for the most part, you're looking at a party looking for leaders. But one thing they are getting is big crowds. And they're getting big crowds where Bernie Sanders and AOC are traveling around. They're going to areas, and there's definitely people out there when you have 49, you know, when you have millions of people vote for Democrats, you can get a big crowd. I'm astounded to see Yale University did a survey, and it says that AOC is now in the second spot behind Kamala Harris as the most popular, but she's supposed to be the working class socialist. A message to those that oligarchs are ruining this country, and the rich are gonna get richer unless she is voted in, and 83 year old Bernie Sanders is the nominal leader.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): So you got Kamala Harris at the top of the list.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): It's — yes, you're right. Yeah.
JONES: She lost every swing state. The American people overwhelmingly rejected her. She was a bumbling mess on the campaign trail, could not complete her sentences accurately. No one really knew what she stood for. And then you got AOC that's right behind her, Ainsley.
EARHARDT: Is she tied with Cory Booker?
JONES: Exactly. A radical. The people in the country aren't gonna sign up for her agenda. I just think it's another double down on crazy.
EARHARDT: You know, this is what, this is what we all feared. I remember when Bernie Sanders came on the scene, and he said, ‘I'm a socialist.' We were like,‘What? No one's voting for you.' Now look at these crowds. This is where our country is going, and it is very, very scary. They are socialist. They are so far to the left. They are progressive.
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Right-wing media figures rushed to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to issue pardons or commutations to over 1,500 people who participated in the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol — including those convicted of violence against police.
They offered a number of arguments to support their defense: They baselessly claimed legal efforts to hold participants accountable were “show trials” or unfair compared to legal repercussions for the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, said the pardons are justified because of former President Joe Biden’s pardons, and diminished the violence on January 6 by recasting those criminally charged as “ordinary patriots.”
Other right-wing figures defended the clemency by noting that Trump had campaigned on the issue, declaring, “Promises made, promises kept."
Right-wing media figures spent years urging pardons for January 6 participants, which Trump granted on the first day of his second term
- Trump issued pardons or commutations on the first day of his second term to over 1,500 participants in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of violent offenses against law enforcement officers. Trump had stated ahead of his presidency that he intended to issue pardons to some January 6 participants “in the first hour” of his second term. The Associated Press, [1/21/25; The Guardian, 1/6/25]
- Right-wing media figures have spent years creating a revisionist history of January 6, claiming that Trump supporters were “set up” and casting attempts to hold participants accountable as politically motivated. Right-wing media figures, initially led by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, sought to downplay the extent of the day’s violence and substitute a revisionist counternarrative that declared January 6 participants as the victims of a false-flag operation perpetuated by the federal government. When participants were charged with crimes, right-wing figures suggested the prosecutions were evidence that “the major critics of the left have been targeted by lawfare” and referred to defendants as “political prisoners.” Media Matters, [5/21/24, 2/24/21, 1/3/24; The Associated Press, 1/4/24]
- Right-wing media also specifically pushed for pardons for January 6 participants for years. Right-wing media figures have been defending January 6 participants since at least February 2022, suggesting that Trump should “pardon every January 6ther," or at least “pardon those people who were nonviolent on January 6.” Media Matters, [1/20/25, 1/10/25]
- Prior to Trump’s issuance of the pardons, right-wing media lashed out against now-Vice President JD Vance, who told Fox News that violent January 6 defendants “obviously” should not be pardoned. Following Vance’s January 12 interview, where he suggested the pardons would be selective, right-wing media figures urged the president to “pardon everybody,” recycling claims that the Capitol riot was a “setup” by law enforcement. Media Matters, [1/28/25, 1/22/25]
- ## Right-wing media justified January 6 pardons by claiming that the government “showed mercy” or “nothing happened” to Black Lives Matter protestors in 2020
- Right-wing media figures have continued to baselessly claim that Black Lives Matter protesters were treated with leniency compared to January 6 participants even though news outlets have debunked the claim and reported that over 17,000 arrests were made in the first two weeks of the BLM protests. Additionally, a reportfrom the City University of New York Law School’s Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Clinic determined that the Trump administration engaged in an “aggressive assertion of federal jurisdiction” over the protests and that many of the federal penalties were “clearly harsher” than applicable state law.
- Right-wing host Dan Bongino claimed that “the process used to target [J6ers] was clearly political,” arguing that “absolutely nothing happened” when BLM protestors allegedly attacked police at the White House. Bongino stated: “But there is zero doubt that when the White House was attacked by BLM and antifa and Secret Service agents and uniformed division officers I know personally were hurt and wounded, that absolutely nothing happened to these people at all. So you can have two simultaneous thoughts at the same time, and I want you to pay attention to this. You can and should say, ‘I am absolutely, resolutely against attacks on law enforcement for doing their job,’ period there. But I am also against a greater danger, which is a weaponized Justice Department that picks and chooses when they take this stuff seriously and targets political opponents for it. And that’s what happened here.” Rumble, *The Dan Bongino Show*, [1/22/25]
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham complained about outrage over January 6 pardons, saying, “Where was their demand for jail time and their outrage when the George Floyd rioters burned down American cities?” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [1/21/25]
- Defending the pardons, Fox host Sean Hannity falsely claimed that the government “never prosecuted” Black Lives Matter protestors for the 2020 protests. Hannity lamented that there were “574 riots in the summer of 2020, we had dozens of dead Americans, thousands of injured cops, billions in property damage, we have videotape evidence — they never prosecuted these people.” Premiere Radio Networks, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [1/22/25]
- Right-wing pundit Larry Elder claimed that “absolutely nothing happened” to BLM protesters who attacked cops. Elder: “In the summer of 2020, you got people who were battering police officers and absolutely nothing happened to them.” Newsmax, *Rob Schmitt Tonight*, [1/21/25]
- Fox host Jesse Watters praised the January 6 pardons while claiming that Democrats “showed mercy to BLM after they ransacked and firebombed cities.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/22/25]
- Fox & Friendsco-host Lawrence Jones claimed that “there were no charges” for the BLM protests. Jones added: “So, I don't want anybody targeting cops. But I think what ended up happening, according to some of the reports, and I can pretty much confirm it, is when there was some debate going on who to pardon and they kept going back and forth and he said, just pardon them all. I'm not going to do this. If this is your effort to delay me getting the J6ers pardoned, the people that were overcharged, which a lot of legal scholars agree, then I'm just going to pardon them all.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [1/23/25]
- ## Right-wing media justified the pardons by claiming that the January 6 trials were politically motivated and unfair and that the sentences were excessive
- Watters praised Trump for issuing a pardon for a man who received 20 years for “punching a cop at a rally that got out of control,” adding, “These guys got squeezed into pleas.”He said: “We don't think you should be able to punch a cop in the face and get away with it, but 20 years is a long time for punching a cop in the face. And these guys got squeezed into pleas.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/22/25]
- Fox host Will Cain claimed that investigations into January 6 participants were “an attempt to cook the books within the DOJ and the FBI to suggest that domestic terrorism was on the rise.” He also stated that, “Real people had their lives ruined. Real people sat and rotted in jail. And Donald Trump, today, for those real people, brought justice.” Fox News, *The Will Cain Show*, [1/21/25]
- During Fox News’ inauguration coverage, Ingraham defended the pardons by claiming “these people were never had the real chance to put on a proper defense” and “documents were destroyed.” Ingraham noted Trump had granted “1,600 pardons for J6ers who were arrested,” adding, “And a lot of them were sentenced to two, three, four, five years in jail. His point is, documents were destroyed, which they were, and these people were never had the real chance to put on a proper defense. That was really big.” Mediaite, [1/20/25]
- Ingraham also justified Trump pardoning participants because “a lot of them served years in jail already.” She added, “We know sex assaults of convicts are, you know, go to jail all across this country for a couple of years. Some of these people have been in jail for already four years.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [1/22/25]
- Former GOP congresswoman Michelle Bachmann said onFlashPointthat January 6 “was like a prayer meeting” and complained that there were “1,500 people who've been in jail serving time is far in excess of what murderers and rapists have to serve in jail.” Bachmann added, “People were preaching the gospel on the streets. It was like a family reunion. The happiest people you would ever see. There was no discontent on the Capitol Hill that day.” Victory Channel, *FlashPoint*, [1/21/25]
- Right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wrote, “Not one J6’er got a real trial so Trump had to release them all.” He added, “Anyone who has a problem with this can talk to the judges and prosecutors who did Stalin era show trials.” Twitter/X, [1/21/25; Media Matters, 8/21/18]
- Right-wing figure Dinesh D’Souza, who has pushed election denial conspiracy theories, called the pardons in an X post “a just outcome” because the trials were “show trials.” He also claimed that “when the process is thoroughly corrupted, everyone is presumed innocent after the fact.” Twitter/X, [1/21/25; Media Matters, 5/4/22]
- Former Fox host Bill O’Reilly claimed that “there was prosecutorial misconduct directed at some people who got into this fracas and got punished far beyond their crime.” Premiere Radio Networks, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [1/24/25]
- ## Right-wing media figures compared Trump’s pardons to Biden’s preemptive pardons for potential targets of the Trump administration
- Prior to exiting the White House, then-President Joe Biden issued pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the House January 6 committee, and several of his family members in an attempt to protect them against potential reprisals by the incoming Trump administration. Following Trump’s January 6 pardons, right-wing media figures have equated the pardons issued by Biden and Trump, ignoring that the Trump administration had publicly telegraphed its intent to target many of those pardoned by Biden.
- OnFox Noticias, co-host Julie Banderas questioned why the media is “so focused on the Jan. 6 pardons and not the criminal pardons granted by Joe Biden.” Fox Deportes, *Fox Noticias*, [1/22/25]
- Discussing the potential political fallout of Trump pardoning January 6 participants convicted of violence, Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon invoked Biden’s preemptive pardons. She said that “what Biden did in terms of pardoning was so utterly egregious and is going to become a massive albatross around the neck of his party in a way that these really aren't for Donald Trump.” The Free Press, *Honestly with Bari Weiss*, [1/24/25]
- Fox anchor Bret Baier likened Biden's preemptive pardons of his family to Trump's pardon of January 6 participants, saying, “What about that, the pardon back and forth between the two presidents?” Fox News, *Special Report with Bret Baier*, [1/21/25]
- ## Right-wing media figures glossed over violent offenses by January 6 participants, saying Trump pardoned nonviolent “ordinary patriots” who were set up by law enforcement
- Right-wing media figures have justified Trump’s blanket January 6 pardons by glossing over pardons for those convicted of seditious conspiracy or violent crimes. Approximately 140 police officers were injured that day, and several armed individuals and extremist groups were present.
- Newsmax’s Greg Kelly excused the pardons as “Donald Trump pardon[ing] vulnerable, not very powerful, regular, ordinary patriots” and claimed that “to the extent he [Enrique Tarrio] did anything wrong, it was a setup, a total and complete setup.” Kelly claimed that Trump pardoned the vulnerable and powerless. He also argued that Tarrio — the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy — was “just a guy who was being a guy, exercising his constitutional rights.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [1/20/25; NBC News, 1/22/25]
- Lawrence Jones suggested Trump pardoned people who “didn’t attack officers" or engage in “any actual violence,” failing to mention that several of the pardons went to those who did attack officers. While discussing Trump’s January 6 pardons, Jones alluded to the fact that both Trump and Vance previously implied the pardons would be for people who “didn’t attack officers, if there wasn’t any actual violence.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends First*, [1/21/25]
- Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn failed to note that violent offenders were also pardoned when she emphasized “incredibly harsh sentences and penalties for mostly, for most of them, relatively minor offenses." Instead, she highlighted what she implied was over sentencing of “relatively minor offenses like trespassing, misdemeanors, and the like” and called the pardons “great.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [1/21/25]
- Lara Logan, who has pushed conspiracy theories, responded to a post about Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers militia, receiving a pardon and wrote that he was “set-up” and “it was complete BS.” Twitter/X, [1/21/25; CBS News, 1/22/25; Media Matters, 3/28/22, 10/21/22]
- ## Right-wing media figures defended the clemency as a campaign promise Trump fulfilled: “Promises made, promises kept”
- Rumble host Donald Trump Jr. shared a video of Trump signing the pardons, commenting, “Promises Made, Promises Kept… And we are only just starting.”He also posted, “President Trump has just signed an executive order granting full pardons to about 1,500 J6 prisoners!” Twitter/X, [1/20/25]
- Pro-Trump troll Laura Loomer posted, “God bless the J6 patriots and President Trump for pardoning them! Promises made, promises kept!” Twitter/X, [1/20/25]
- OnOutnumbered, Fox News contributor Steve Hilton said, “The Trump pardon, whatever you think of them, it's the delivery of an election promise.” He added, “He said he would do this in pretty much every rally. He’s doing what he said. Biden said he would never do anything like this. It's the exact opposite. Trump is doing what he said. Biden is doing the opposite of what he said.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [1/21/25]
- Lawrence Jones celebrated the clemency: “Promises made, promises kept on day 1.” He said of Trump: “I think he made pretty clear and JD Vance kind of doubled down on it, if you didn't attack officers, if there wasn't actual violence, and you were caught up within the system, you were overcharged, you’ve done enough time, and he — promises made, promises kept on day 1.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [1/21/25]
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December 5, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Let's bring in retired marine bomb tech and Fox News contributor Joey Jones. You just heard Bill's report and he talks about Pete's op-ed. This is what Pete says in that op-ed, "I have never backed down from a fight and I won't back down from this one." I think these words are important because, as I said yesterday I feel like he is being Kavanaugh-ed. These are unnamed people and the same people that are going to have to vote on this have had unnamed people accuse them of things.
JOHNNY JOEY JONES (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): You know, I disagree with the Kavanaugh a little bit; he is not being Brett Kavanaugh-ed, he is being Donald Trump-ed. He is being accused, they said Donald Trump was unqualified and couldn't do the job, they said he didn't have good moral character. They used a family member against him. Everything they have done to Pete they did to Donald Trump. And Donald Trump became, ended up being one of the best presidents we have ever had. And so, I'm so proud of Pete for sticking to this.
For these senators, someone like Lindsey Graham to make the comments he made a couple days ago. Lindsey Graham has never shied away from an opportunity to ride Donald Trump's coattails. He had no problem with salacious allegations that were essentially proven false or had another story when it came to Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham getting to raise money and keep his seat, but now they are very concerning when it comes to these same types of empty attacks on Pete Hegseth. No, the truth is Lindsey Graham doesn't care at all about these attacks. He cares about being able to wage war everywhere he can because that's what he advocates for. And to his credit, he is honest about it, I'm not even attacking him for it. But if that's your problem, sit Pete in front of you and ask him questions about how he would run the Department of Defense, and what kind of policies the president wants and how Pete Hegseth would implement those policies. Don't sit here and go in front of a camera and say that these character attacks are concerning because, listen, god forbid we put a microscope on any of those people.
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October 28, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): It felt a lot like the RNC reunion. You saw a lot of people you saw at the RNC right there.
Of all the comments, however, of the warm-up acts, there was a comic who made some offensive comments about Latinos and Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and others. And he has already been denounced by Republicans and by the campaign.
But unfortunately for the Trump campaign, the Harris campaign has denounced it and mobilized influential Puerto Rican influencers like Bad Bunny, who is very big in the Puerto Rican community and Latino community — he put out something on Instagram. And so did Ricky Martin with millions of followers and he wrote or he said this is what they think of us, vote for Kamala Harris. A Trump adviser said the speaker's remarks were not vetted. We are going to talk to Karoline Leavitt — she's gonna be with us in a moment.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Part of the pre-show, that was two hours before the president.
DOOCY: Yup, the warm-up.
KILMEADE: It's amazing. The cover of The New York Times, Trump at Garden, a closing carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism. Only, only somebody who works for the Harris campaign pretending to be a reporter for The New York Times would write something like that if you watched, that three hours or four hours. You had to flip around to get it. We didn't take all of it live. But also — you don't point out that R.F.K. the famous Democratic family actually was one of the featured speakers around the most famous inventor in the world, Elon Musk? That stands out? No, a comedian with a successful podcast said some off-color.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): But you lose goodwill when before the rally even started they called it a Nazi rally. Before they even took the stage. They had already said that it was going to be a racist rally.
And so number two, maybe it's just me, Dana, uh Ainsley, I have a dark sense of humor you know? And so I like — maybe this was not the appropriate format for the comedian to be there but it's comedy.
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....The Trump-aligned Project 2025, which was created to serve as the blueprint for his next presidential administration, also includes numerous proposals to further restrict overtime pay and protections for American workers.
Yet now Fox News is promoting his supposedly “pro-worker” announcement that he will move to eliminate taxes on overtime pay if reelected.
News organizations shouldn’t fall for Trump’s gimmick.
- ## Fox News hyped Trump’s announcement as “pro-worker”
- Fox contributor and former Trump Treasury official Monica Crowley on the proposal: “Very pro-worker, as Donald Trump has been throughout his political career, certainly as president.” Crowley continued: “You know, Donald Trump deserves a lot of credit for coming up with creative, innovative, out-of-the-box new policies like no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security benefits, and now no tax on overtime. It's all of a piece of a Trump pro-growth economic agenda that he put forward in the first term of tax cuts, regulatory relief, unleashing our great energy sector, and striking fair-trade deals for the American worker. He puts the forgotten men and women first. This is America first. It's all part of an Americans first policy, and he's going to do it again.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/12/24]
- Project 2025 contributor and conservative economist Stephen Moore on Fox’s Hannity: “If you work extra hours, you're going to get a little bonus from Trump.” Moore added: “I had not heard about this policy, but I think it's kind of a neat policy. I think people are going to really like it.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [9/12/24; The Guardian, 2/29/24]
- Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones said the policy will benefit “everyday people.” Co-host Ainsley Earhardt, introducing a discussion of Trump’s announcement, said: “Many of the people here at Fox work overtime. Many people in your industry work overtime.” Jones said, “He is baiting the Democrats right now. … They keep saying that he is for the billionaires class. That he is for the tax cuts for the rich. And every single time they do that he responds with policy that affects everyday people.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/13/24]
- Fox Business host Taylor Riggs: “I think that this is … another good plan for him to really appeal to that blue collar worker.” Riggs added: “Less taxes is always good for everyone. Right? We already pay the government way too much money in wasteful spending that they use it on. … Overall I do think maybe it’s helpful for the worker.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [9/13/24]
- Fox Business framed Trump’s announcement as a plan “to help ease the financial burden on working Americans.” Twitter/X, [9/13/24]
- ## As president, Trump moved to repeal and failed to defend a regulation that would have expanded overtime protections to more than 4 million workers
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October 8, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Today is Tuesday. It is exactly four weeks before the election, and there's a brand new New York Times poll — came out, an hour and 14 minutes ago. And Kamala Harris has a slim lead. And once again, we've been talking about the polls. They are neck and neck. She's up by three. They were tied in mid-September. It is now 49 to 46.
That is why we're seeing more of her, and we've been talking a little bit about how she's trying to get ahead with the storms and stuff like that. That's one of the reasons why over the weekend, she was out, and the administration was promoting the fact that this administration has sent a hundred and fifty-sevel million dollars to Lebanon. Now that's one thing. But it comes as the same time that there are tens of thousands of Americans struggling, and the federal government doesn't have enough money for them. Peter Doocy asked some very basic questions about how lopsided that is. So let me get this straight. We got money for Lebanon. We don't have money for people in North Carolina. If you miss it, here is this extraordinary interchange.
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AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): She's missing what he was trying to ask. He was just saying why can we give all this money to Lebanon and without Congress's permission, but yet Congress has to come back to give money to our Americans in North Carolina and in Florida. That's all he was saying, and she's saying you don't want Congress to come back. No.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Ainsley, she knows exactly what he's saying. She being intentionally obtuse, pretending like she doesn't understand there are people, I just got back from there — they are frustrated that they are not getting the resources at a faster rate. I know they say FEMA is there, but the people aren't seeing them. That's the bottom line. People are not seeing them on the ground. They are seeing Samaritan's Purse. The country is a giving country. But when they see other people getting resources before them, they get pretty hot about it. And there's dead bodies still having to be dragged out right now, which is sad. There's no government agency on the ground that's doing, those are private organizations that are doing the work. And so for Peter to ask the question that most Americans that are in this tragedy are feeling, and for her to reject it as disinformation, you don't like the question but it's not disinformation.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): We're also watching everyone cover for this administration, The New York Times, the Washington Post, almost every network is not acknowledging the fact that they've taken a week to ask the military to get involved.
JONES: Yes.
KILMEADE: These are hard-to-reach areas, it's different than Florida is going to need. These are hard-to-reach areas. You needed the army, they are literally one hour away and you waited a week. Don't say you didn't need them because you called them last Thursday when you could have had them in country, in the state working on Monday.
CBS News reports (emphasis added):
Only $1.6 billion remains in a federal program to help small businesses impacted by hurricanes and natural disasters — enough funding for only a few more weeks without emergency intervention by Congress. Multiple Biden administration and congressional sources told CBS News there are concerns funding will be depleted by the end of this month.
The remaining pot of funding in the Small Business Administration's disaster loan fund is being severely strained by the damage of Hurricane Helene, CBS News has learned, and the Small Business Administration has received at least 3,000 applications every day since Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast. One administration official said there is not sufficient money to last until Congress' scheduled return to Washington after the November elections.
Congress failed to include additional funding for the disaster fund when it passed a short-term spending bill to fund the federal government in September. Although there is optimism that sufficient money remains to help offset the costs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until Congress returns during the week of Nov. 12, there are growing concerns that the Small Business Administration disaster money will run dry.
CBS specifically notes that the Republican senator from Florida Rick Scott is among those asking Congress to reconvene immediately:
An aide to Sen. Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, told CBS News that Scott spoke with President Biden about the need for Congress to swiftly reconvene and approve new federal aid to respond to Helene's destruction.
“While I know from my experience with previous hurricanes that FEMA and SBA damage assessments take time, I am today urging Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately reconvene the U.S. Senate when those assessments are completed so that we can pass the clean supplemental disaster funding bill and other disaster relief legislation,” Scott said in a news release.
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the “crime crisis” narrative Fox News concocted for Donald Trump was exposed at Tuesday night’s debate when moderator David Muir pointed out that FBI data shows violent crime has actually fallen dramatically in recent years. The network’s stars are responding by lashing out at Muir, falsely claiming violent crime is actually up, and arguing that even if data show violent crime is plummeting, “we're all a little bit more scared than we used to be.”
Trump, in a nonresponsive answer to a question about how he would carry out his plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, claimed that due to migration under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, “crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It's called migrant crime. And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.”
Trump’s assertion of rising crime echoed months of anecdote-based Fox coverage — but Muir pointed out in response that actual data shows the opposite, saying, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
Indeed, preliminary FBI data released in June found “steep drops in every category of violent crime in every region in the first three months of 2024 compared to a year earlier, continuing a downward trend since a coronavirus pandemic surge” during Trump’s administration.
Trump responded to Muir by echoing baseless right-wing media claims that the FBI had been “defrauding” data. But the agency’s report is consistent with other sources showing that crime is falling.
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The co-hosts of Fox & Friends responded the next morning by arguing that data that shows violent crime has fallen is irrelevant in the face of the vibes.
“Any time people say violent crime is down in America,” offered Brian Kilmeade, “I ask you, people of Philadelphia, where they are hosting, find anyone in Philadelphia who thinks violent crime is down. I ask you, people of Chicago, site of the DNC, walk around and tell us how crime is under control. I ask you in Washington, D.C., where violent crime is down, the carjacking capital of the country, ask anyone in Washington, D.C., if they feel safer today than four years ago. There is the numbers and there is the reality.”
“It’s the word ‘violent,’ however they define ‘violent.’ Crime is up,” responded Ainsley Earhardt.
“Kamala Harris didn’t even make that point — it was the moderators,” Lawrence Jones added. “They’re not there covering these stories. They’re not going to all these major cities talking about the violence that is impacting urban America on the day to days, so they probably believe what the FBI numbers are saying.”
In fact, according to data compiled by the Major Cities Chiefs Association, all three cities Kilmeade mentioned have seen steep declines in homicides and at least one other category of violent crime the group reported (rapes, robberies, and/or aggravated assaults).
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The trio returned to the subject later in the program.
“One of my favorite parts of the debate, and when it just became clear to me that the bias was jumping off the screen at one point, was the conversation about crime,” Jones complained. “And then David hops in and says, ‘Well, actually, the FBI is saying that the crime is going down.’”
“OK, well now, we know those numbers aren’t quite accurate,” he continued, echoing Trump’s false claim from the debate. Jones then urged Muir to spend more time focusing his broadcast on crime anecdotes, saying, “David, you have a newscast every single day. You may not report on it, but you have local affiliates in major cities all across this country. They are reporting on the crime in Chicago, in Philadelphia. Why not pick up the phone and call them and see what’s going on on the ground?”
“I think, Lawrence, the operative word there was ‘violent,’ and David said, ‘Violent crime has gone down,’” Earhardt replied. “We know that crime is up in these cities, we know that thousands, millions of more illegal immigrants have come over our border under this administration, many of them are affiliated with gangs.:{ We know that more of them have murdered more little girls or young women than ever in my lifetime.” (Earhardt was alive in the 1990s, when violent crime and homicides peaked at levels dramatically higher than the present.)}:
“So violent crime might be going down,” she continued, “but crime overall, we're all a little bit more scared than we used to be."
“Ask anybody in the streets of Philadelphia, outside where that debate was taking place, if they think crime is going down,” Kilmeade added. “In New York City, you walk the streets here, I don't care what the bar chart or the pie chart says, it’s not going down.”
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Fox News is pushing data from a former Trump official to incorrectly suggest violent crime is rising during the Biden administration
Written by Gideon Taaffe
Published 08/23/24
As the Democratic National Convention continued in the background this week, Fox News personalities attempted to cast over the convention a shadow of supposedly rising crime. The network repeatedly sought to dispel FBI data showing a decrease in violent crime by instead using statistics from a Heritage Foundation fellow and former Trump administration official. By comparing current crime rates to 2019, rather than 2021 when Biden and Harris entered office, Fox News is skewing the narrative to deny that crime rates have decreased during the Biden administration.
- ## Violent crime is trending down under the Biden-Harris administration, despite right-wing media attempts to suggest otherwise
- Preliminary FBI crime statistics for 2023 suggest that violent crime was down from a pandemic spike and from 2022.While initial data, based on reports from about 80% of U.S. law enforcement agencies, is in line with external research from the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice, the FBI will not publish finalized crime data for 2023 until the fall. The Associated Press, [3/20/24]
- Fox News has failed to adequately cover FBI reporting showing that crime rates have decreased, despite the network’s overall fixation on crime coverage.Earlier this year, after running nearly 400 weekday segments on migrant crime in the first 10 weeks of 2024, Fox largely ignored a March release of the FBI’s quarterly report showing that crime in the U.S. dropped significantly last year. By July, Fox had run nearly 1,000 migrant crime weekday segments in 2024. In August, Media Matters reported that Fox did not cover new data on the air showing that violent crime had dropped sharply in major cities in the first half of 2024, even though the network aired over 4.5 hours of violent crime coverage in the same time period. Media Matters, [3/13/24, 4/3/24, 7/16/24, 8/15/24]
- Right-wing media more broadly have been attacking the FBI crime stats, claiming they have been falsified or altered to benefit Democrats.This claim is based on research by former Trump official Mark Morgan, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center and president of the Coalition for Law, Order and Safety. Morgan’s research uses a different (smaller) data set than the FBI data and compares current rates of violent crime to pre-pandemic crime rates from 2019. Media Matters, [4/17/24; Washington Examiner, 4/5/24; The Heritage Foundation, accessed 8/22/24; Coalition for Law, Order and Safety, accessed 8/22/24]
- Morgan’s Coalition for Law, Order and Safety is now claiming that crime is up by 9.6% in 66 cities compared to 2019.A Fox News article falsely cites the data in its subheadline, writing, “Violent crime is actually up nearly 25%, independent data analysis shows.” The data cited claims only that “aggravated assault” is “up nearly 25%” in comparison to 2019. Fox News, [8/17/24]
- In part, right-wing claims that the data is wrong are based on the right-wing assertions that large cities like New York and Los Angeles did not submit their data, which is misleading.While it is true that many large cities failed to produce data in 2021 as the FBI switched reporting systems, that issue was almost entirely eliminated in 2022.{: As crime reporter and data analyst Jeff Asher points out, “There were 18,884 agencies representing 333 million people active in the UCR program in 2022. Of that total, over 15,700 agencies representing around 311 million people reported data in some manner that year (94 percent population coverage).” Substack, [6/17/24]}:
- ## Right-wing media are misrepresenting data to incorrectly suggest crime rates are increasing
- Fox host Lawrence Jones falsely claimed the NYPD and LAPD did not submit their crime data to the FBI in 2022. Jones: “While the Biden-Harris administration claims crime rates are falling, they failed to mention a major law enforcement agency like the NYPD and the LAPD didn't submit their crime report to the FBI in 2021 and 2022.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/21/24]
- When Fox host Brian Kilmeade said, “They keep saying crime is going down,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt argued, “Violent crime is not.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/21/24]
- After Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) claimed there was a massive crime spike under the Biden-Harris administration, Fox host Jesse Watters said, “They’re not really reporting all the cities to the FBI.”Watters added, accusing Democrats of ignoring crime victims, “When you put a face on it, it just shames the Democrats, who have been just so out to lunch on a life-and-death issue. Fox News,*Jesse Watters Primetime*, [8/20/24]
- OnThe Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld falsely claimed that reporting on a decrease in crime is a “hoax” because “many cities are no longer reporting the stats to the FBI.”Gutfeld: “Another dangerous hoax is saying crime is down. The only reason you can say that is because many cities are no longer reporting the stats to the FBI. When a narrative goes against your senses — what you hear, what you see — trust your senses. Everyone of us intimately knows a victim of crime if we haven't been a victim ourselves, so again this is not like lying about crowd size. This is a lie that hurts.” Fox News, *The Five*, [8/20/24]
- Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins cited Mark Morgan’s group, suggesting violent crime has increased by comparing current numbers with pre-pandemic crime rates from 2019.Jenkins: “The Independent public policy group Coalition for Law, Order and Safety argues that according to their analysis, it’s actually up across 66 major cities. You can see from January to June 2019 data — for that same period in 2024 shows a 9.6% increase in total violent crime, with aggravated assault up nearly 25%, murder up 6.4%.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/20/24]
- Jones brought up violent crime rising by “9.6%” but didn’t specify that this rate reflects the change since 2019.He said to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: “When you look at inflation, it’s up 19.4%, when you look at the southern border, it’s 8.1 [million] encounters, when you look at crime — violent crime — across 66 major cities, it’s up almost 10% at 9.6%. Is that a record that you can run on?” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/20/24]
- Kilmeade parroted Morgan’s data, claiming there has been an increase in crime. Kilmeade: “Look at right now, they’re looking at 9.6% increase in total crime. Nearly 25% increase in aggravated assault. 6.4 increase in murders. All negative numbers.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/19/24]
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she steps up after debate fail, she was very good so now target b/c may be top of target; fox trad goes after women esp POC effective leaders
Fox News figures have recently compared Vice President Kamala Harris to teenage children, said that her words do not sound like those of a commander-in-chief, and dismissed Harris as a “a DEI hire.” The network has ramped up its attacks on Harris — including with commentary focused on her race and gender — since President Joe Biden's debate performance on June 27.
- Fox anchor Julie Banderas claimed that her young daughters “speak more eloquently” than Harris and said, “I’m sorry, just being a minority does not make you fit for president.” Outnumbered co-host and former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed that Harris’ speech “does not quite ring like commander-in-chief.” Outnumbered co-host Emily Compagno added, apparently addressing the press, “So the question of how did we get here — well, it's because all of you. And the fact that now the understudy is Kamala Harris, who they point out was not qualified to be a vice president, that President Biden selected her simply because of her color and her gender, that's the mess that they created.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [7/2/24]
- Fox host Lawrence Jones on Harris’ BET Awards cameo: “I get code-switching, but you can't just change all the way up like that.” Jones continued, “I don't know what the White House wants to gain by going on BET, as if that is going to get us to the polls for Joe Biden.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [7/1/24]
- The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro: Harris “has proven to America why DEI doesn’t work.” Co-host Greg Gutfeld added: “She’s being overlooked because she didn’t earn it. She was the least popular candidate in the primaries of 2020 — and there were a lot of people involved. So there's a sense that, as what happens with DEI, unfortunately, even if you are qualified, people are skeptical of how you got there.” Fox News, *The Five*, [7/2/24]
- Fox host Brian Kilmeade: “The Democrats made their bed when they picked Kamala Harris. Have to have a woman, has to be a woman of color.” Guest Horace Cooper replied, “If the test for president is, can you cackle? Is the test, can you laugh in the middle of your statement? Can you not be ever serious? She passes with flying colors. Her own party knows that she's incompetent.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [7/2/24]
- Fox contributor Kellyanne Conway: “Joe Biden was out in front saying — he sounded like a sophomore frat boy at the end of a keg party on a Saturday night: ‘I need a woman, I need a woman, I need a woman,’ and we got stuck with Kamala Harris.” Conway continued, “So, and he said, ‘I want to choose a Black woman.’ That’s fine, except he said the quiet part out loud, he told us how he got her. And as you’re saying, she just hasn't performed capably in the job.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [7/2/24]
- In reference to Harris possibly replacing Joe Biden, Gutfeld argued that “it's very easy to make, say, a DEI hire, but almost impossible to do a DEI fire.” [Fox News, Gutf
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During the June 27 CNN presidential election debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, Trump made false and misleading claims about immigration and migrants seemingly drawn straight from the right-wing media echo chambers.
Trump falsely claimed that Biden “wants open borders” and “wants our country to … be destroyed,” as migrants are supposedly violent criminals stealing American jobs. He also pushed the “great replacement” theory, saying Biden wants to import migrants to vote Democratic.
Below are some of Trump’s debate claims and recent instances of right-wing media making the same points.
- ## Claim: Biden has opened up the border
- During the debate, Trump claimed that Biden “decided to open up our border, open up our country” and said he wants “open borders.” CNN [6/27/24]
- Numerous debunks have explained that the U.S. border is not open.NPR, [6/28/24; The Nation, 11/22/23; Axios, 10/17/23; Newsweek, 1/24/22]
- Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed that “there are terror cells here because of [Biden’s] wide-open borders — 11 million unvetted people from countries with terrorist ties and our top geopolitical foes.” Hannity also said Biden has “blood on his hands.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [6/24/24]
- After the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo suggested it could be due to a “wide-open border.” Although she acknowledged that the White House issued a statement “saying that there is no indication of a nefarious intent,” she went on to discuss “the potential for wrongdoing or potential for foul play given the wide-open border.” Fox Business, *Mornings with Maria*, [3/26/24]
- Fox guest T.W. Shannon said that Biden’s “open border” is “poisoning the bloodline in this country because we’re allowing illegals to vote.” Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [4/10/24]
- Fox guest Sheriff Mark Dannels said that we’ve had “three and a half years of leaving the border open.”He continued, “People come into the country that don't respect our cultures, our rule of law, and the people within.” Fox News, *Your World with Neil Cavuto*, [6/21/24]
- The Real America’s Voice X account posted, “Joe Biden and his administration, along with Obama, are using the open border as a tool to allow millions of immigrants and God only knows how many terrorists in to the country.” Twitter/X, [6/19/24]
- Fox News contributor Larry Kudlow penned a Fox News online op-ed titled “Biden's open border is killing innocent Americans.” Kudlow claimed, “Brutal gang warfare has come across the southern border into our sanctuary cities where blue state mayors and governors will not, in most cases, cooperate with border authorities to deport them.” Fox News, [6/18/24]
- ## Claim: Biden wants to import migrants as voters
- At the debate, Trump claimed Biden “wants open borders. He wants our country to either be destroyed or he wants to pick up those people as voters."CBS News, [6/28/24]
- In recent years, right-wing media have been pushing the xenophobic “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which alleges that “elites” encourage illegal immigration to bring nonwhite people into the country to “replace” white voters. This false narrative has led to real-world violence, including mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. Media Matters, [5/15/23, 1/12/24; Southern Poverty Law Center, 5/12/23]
- Fox News contributor Paul Mauro asked, “Does it not seem like we’ve hit a point where somebody in Washington has made a decision that there is an acceptable level of collateral damage in order to get a permanent Democratic voting bloc into this country?”The discussion was around the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray that led to the arrest of two recent Venezuelan migrants. Mauro also suggested that if migrants “were calculated to vote Republican, the [border] wall would be 60 feet high.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [6/21/24; The New York Times, 6/25/24]
- Turning Post USA’s Charlie Kirk claimed that “the left” “won't stop until you and your children and your children's children are eliminated.”Kirk also said, “They hate those of you that own land and have guns and believe in a better country, and they have a plan to try and get rid of you.” Real America’s Voice, *The Charlie Kirk Show*, [3/1/24]
- Fox host Jesse Watters alleged that the “far left” wants an “illegal alien nation where they can blow up the welfare state and just increase their political power. Same with the corporate class.” Fox News, *The Five*, [6/12/24]
- Pro-Trump troll Laura Loomer claimed that “to the radical left, the replacement of the American core is essential to their ideology and their communist takeover of America.” She went on to say that Biden and the radical left view “traditional America” as something to be “destroyed and relegated to the dustbin of history.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [6/6/24]
- ## Claim: Migrants are violent criminals, and millions are coming from jails and mental institutions in South America
- Trump said at the debate, “Because of his [Biden’s] ridiculous, insane and very stupid policies, people are coming in and killing our citizens at a level we’ve never — we call it migrant crime. I’d call it Biden-migrant crime.” The New York Times, [6/27/24]
- Trump also said that Biden “allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails, and mental institutions — to come into our country and destroy our country.” Trump made similar claims on at least three occasions in 2023, according to CNN, which reported that he “claimed the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their ‘insane asylums’ and ‘mental institutions’ to send the patients to the United States as migrants.” His campaign was unsuccessful in finding evidence for the claim. Trump made a similar claim in February, saying that “jails … throughout the world” are “emptying out” because countries are “dumping” migrants here and that others are coming from “mental institutions and … insane asylums.” The New York Times, [6/27/24; CNN, 4/29/23, 2/29/24]
- Studies show no link between immigration and high levels of crime, and evidence shows immigrants are less likely to commit crime than U.S.-born citizens. According to the Brennan Center, “Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite. Studies [also show] … immigration is associated with lower crime rates and an increase in structural factors — such as social connection and economic opportunity — that are linked to neighborhood safety.” NPR, [3/8/24; Brennan Center for Justice, 5/29/24]
- Border security expert Adam Isacson told PolitiFact that “‘millions’ would mean one in eight was someone released from a jail or a mental institution, a claim too ridiculous to dignify.”He also said that it “‘strains belief’ … that someone with serious mental illness could navigate the route to the U.S. after release from an institution.” Politifact, [6/6/24]
- Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox that migrants are “above the law” and “being dumped into this country by the millions as they rape and pillage and murder.”Miller continued, “Joe Biden’s flying them in day after day, busing them in, escorting them in to rape and pillage and murder more Americans.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [6/21/24]
- Loomer said the migrant “invaders” “just disappear … only to be seen again when their faces are plastered on the news after they commit heinous crimes like murder, rape, human trafficking, assault, and drug dealing.” Loomer also suggested that Democrats embrace immigration because they want “white America” to be “punished by being replaced.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [6/7/24]
- Tomi Lahren of Fox’s OutKick said that migrants including men from “Venezuelan gangs” in the U.S. are “preying on young women” and targeting them because they are “the most vulnerable among us.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [6/21/24]
- Watters said Biden is “catching and releasing killers and rapists,” saying they’re “serial sexual predators, they’re serial killers, and they don't belong here.These are third world animals.” Watters also claimed, “Biden migrants are exploding all inside our country like IEDs. It feels like a terror attack to me.” Fox News, *The Five,* [6/21/24]
* In a discussion about the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose alleged attackers were migrants, Fox news host Lawrence Jones claimed, “They’ve emptied the jails and now we have to deal with it.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [6/26/24]
- Jones also complained that people are calling “the former president crazy for saying they were emptying their jails, and what do you know, Venezuela, crime rate is going down.” While talking about the killing of Rachel Morin, allegedly by an immigrant, Jones continued, “There is actual proof of people that have criminal records, that have committed murders in their country now coming to our country to do the same thing.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends,* [6/21/24]
- Fox News contributor Tyrus claimed,“They are emptying their jails and their psych asylums to America and we don't have asylums for anybody.”He added: “The floodgates are wide open.” Fox News, *Gutfeld!*, [6/24/24]
- ## Claim: Migrants are stealing jobs from Americans
In the debate, Trump claimed that migrants “are taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet.” The New York Times, [6/27/24]|}:
- Research is mixed on the impacts of migrants on jobs, but some research shows that “immigrants raise wages and boost the employment of U.S.-born workers.” Forbes reported on research that looked at 2000-2019, also noting: “Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment.” Additionally, as Brookings senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explained in 2017, “Undocumented workers often work the unpleasant, back-breaking jobs that native-born workers are not willing to do.” The New York Times’ fact check of the debate says that “whether or not immigrants depress wages or displace some workers has been examined by economists for decades, and there is no clear conclusion.” Forbes, [5/1/24; Brookings Institution, 8/24/17; The New York Times, 6/27/24]
- Right-wing media have been lying for at least a decade about migrants stealing jobs from U.S. workers.Media Matters reports from 2013 and 2015 gathered right-wing media commentary claiming migrants steal U.S. worker jobs, countering that “there is no evidence that immigrants crowd out U.S.-born workers in either the short or long run.” Media Matters, [2/1/13, 10/27/15]
- Right-wing influencer Amuse posted that “military aged” Chinese migrants “are here to steal our jobs, our information, our welfare benefits, our elections, and our freedom.” Twitter/X, [2/5/24]
- Fox Business host Sean Duffy said, “The Biden White House keeps bragging about the strong economy, pointing to the job market as evidence, … but a closer look under the hood reveals that all those job gains — they’re going to immigrants.” Duffy’s co-host Dagen McDowell further added: “Why are all the jobs going to these people and not people born here in the United States? Hmm. Is it DEI? Maybe.” Fox Business, *The Bottom Line*, [2/14/24]
- The Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota wrote a piece for The New York Post complaining that “job gains are going to immigrants, and keeping young US-born men out of the workforce.”Camarota further claimed, “Allowing millions of immigrants into the country to fill lower-wage jobs means we have little incentive to undertake the difficult task of getting more men back into jobs.” The New York Post, [2/13/24]
- Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo said, “When you look at the jobs numbers, they look really strong -- they do -- every month. We seem to have a strong jobs market. But when you peel back the onion, a lot of those jobs are going to noncitizens; a lot of those jobs are part time.” Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*, [6/20/24]
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lawrence Billy Jones III (born December 10, 1992) is an American libertarian political commentator, author and a current co-host of the weekday edition of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel.[1] He served as host of Lawrence Jones Cross Country from 2022–2023. Jones, 31, is the youngest African American to co-host on a cable news network.[1]^
Early life
Jones was raised by his mother, Tameria and father, Lawrence Jones II. Jones has stated that he served as "youth mayor" of Garland, Texas, in 2009.[2] He graduated from Garland High School in 2011[3] and studied political science and criminal justice at the University of North Texas.[4][5]^
Career
Jones was hired as student advocate in the Garland Independent School District, becoming their youngest employee.[3][6] When he was 19, he ran for a seat on the school board for this district, but lost the election.[2] He served two years as a board member for Dallas County Child Welfare.[7][8] In 2012, Jones was on the Garland Parks and Recreation Board.[9] In 2013, he was named Activist of the Year by FreedomWorks.[7] That year, he went undercover for Project Veritas, a conservative organization founded by James O'Keefe known for publishing deceptively edited videos, for the purpose of exposing allegations of fraud among vendors who enrolled individuals in the healthcare marketplace of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[2]
In April 2015, Jones created a fundraiser for Memories Pizza, a pizza shop in Indiana that closed after receiving backlash when its owners said they would refuse to cater a gay wedding if asked. The fundraiser raised $844,000 for the family, which was used in part for bills and partly donated to charity and the owner's church.[10][11]^
He hosts The Lawrence Jones Show on TheBlaze Radio Network.[citation ^needed] He was previously a contributor to conservative television show Dana, hosted by Dana Loesch on Blaze Media.[12][13]
In February 2018, he became editor-in-chief of the conservative website Campus Reform.[14][15]^
Jones considers himself to be Libertarian.[5]^
Fox News
In May 2018, Jones claimed on Fox News that, because ESPN personality Jemele Hill was unemployed, she therefore did not deserve a journalism award from the National Association of Black Journalists, and that the NABJ was seeking to "applaud unemployment."[15]
In April 2019, Jones wore a small bulletproof vest during a Fox News segment where he was at the Mexico–United States border in Laredo, Texas. He was subsequently mocked online, and a number of journalists who routinely cover the border region said they have never used protective gear in the course of the reporting. In his next appearance on Fox News, Jones wore a larger vest and said that the U.S. Border Patrol had told him to wear a bulletproof vest for his safety.[16][17][18]^
In July 2019, Jones blamed the Barack Obama Administration for a lenient plea deal that sex offender and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein received in 2008, incorrectly asserting that Obama was president at the time.[19]
In October 2019, Jones relocated to New York City after it was announced that he had been promoted to a regular substitute host and co-host role at Fox News.[20] In 2022, he began hosting Lawrence Jones Cross Country on the network, in the former time slot of Justice with Judge Jeanine.[21]^
At the end of April 2023, Jones was selected to host Fox News Tonight for the week of May 1, the 8pm time slot on Fox News, serving as a temporary replacement for Tucker Carlson on filling the cancelled Tucker Carlson Tonight slot, following Fox's decision to part ways with Tucker Carlson.[22][23] He helmed the program again for the week of June 26, 2023.
On September 14, 2023, Fox News announced that Jones had been named a permanent co-host of Fox & Friends which saw Jones relinquish his weekend program.[24]^
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What's the deal? (Billybond19923 (talk) 23:04, 3 July 2016 (UTC))[reply]
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Controversies or attempted take-downs?
Why would his wearing a bullet-proof vest to the US-Mexican border be considered controversial? That just sounds like someone has a grudge against him.
It's not, and more importantly, there shouldn't be a separate criticism section, notable issues should be woven throughout the article. 70.163.208.142 (talk) 02:29, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like description is on the biased side
conservative organization founded by James O'Keefe which is known for publishing secretly-recorded videos, for the purpose of exposing allegations of fraud among vendors who enrolled individuals Wpow (talk) 23:38, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Fundraise part
@2603:7000:2f00:38f:5c33:3f48:6adc:9078 hello i have reverted your edits. I would say rather than deleting the entire section, like you have, i would insist adding the additional details that you have mentioned along with citation. This gives the viewer the complete picture, as opposed to hiding the entire thing all together. Ping me when you reply--LostCitrationHunter (talk) 07:59, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
UNT graduation
Is there a source stating he graduated from the University of North Texas? We list him in the infobox as having a BA, which may be a reasonable inference if he graduated, since UNT's current poli sci degree is a BA (though the current criminal justice degree is a BS). I see sources describing him as an alumnus, but sometimes that term is used to indicate a former student rather than a graduate. I am reading some information about Jones entering politics in his third year at UNT and at one point planning to attend law school, but I don't see anything that discusses whether he completed the undergraduate degree. Larry Hockett (Talk) 20:11, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Stop making Wikipedia so blatantly biased
Obviously, most know wikipedia and the "media" in general leans to the left. That makes sense... fair enough. Thats life.... we ALL now that by now..
But someone here keeps insisting that his intro must include he "rose to prominence" for COVERING A STORY at a local news app over a small business that refused to cater to a gay wedding.. defaming his as a homophobe for political bias to be infused here. If you have ANY references to back up THIS is why he "made a name for himself", please bring it up here before defaming him.
I made a separate "controversy" section to include this, to be fair - but for a 31 yr old black conservative - he is relatively unknown to 99% of society. To claim he rose to prominence over covering something for a local news outlet (whether he supported it or not) and downplaying his promotion to the nation's most popular morning news/opinion/entertainment show is just insulting and racist. 96.248.107.174 (talk) 17:58, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Ex-banker launches bid to oust AOC, says she puts 'constituents second'
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Marty Dolan, a Wall Street veteran, announces candidacy to unseat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in June primary.
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History teacher warns about 'weird lack of patriotism' in schools: 'It bothers me'
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Lawrence Jones talks to diners in Bozeman, Montana about the state of the U.S. education system.
.Sep 22, 2023
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Biden called out over border crisis: 'These small communities are overwhelmed'
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Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan provides insight on responding to illegal immigration on 'Lawrence Jones Cross Country.'
.Sep 9, 2023
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What happened to American work ethic?
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FOX Business' Mike Rowe of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation reacts to liberal chaos in American cities and the national work shortage on...
.Sep 9, 2023
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Reverend, former police chief call for 'family values, discipline' after Florida shooting
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Rev. P.M. Smith and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig join 'Cross Country' to discuss the 'racially motivated' Florida shooting that...
.Aug 26, 2023
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Oregon officials scramble to save Portland amid homelessness, crime crisis
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Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West and Oregon gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan weigh in on the worsening crisis and what is...
.Aug 26, 2023
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Parents who lost children to OxyContin tear into Big Pharma: 'They just did this for money'
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Kelle Stavron and Rodger Ward, two parents who each lost a son to OxyContin addiction, join 'Cross Country' to discuss how the opioid crisis...
.Aug 19, 2023
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Being an American patriot has become 'offensive': Rapper Tom MacDonald
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Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald shares how American patriotism inspired his single 'American Flags' and the resistance he's facing from cancel...
.Aug 12, 2023
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Vivek Ramaswamy makes push for civics tests for voters 18-24
By Lawrence Jones
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GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shares his message for young voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election on 'Cross Country.'
.Aug 5, 2023
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Rep. Tim Burchett on possible Biden impeachment: 'We'll make a very clear case'
By Lawrence Jones
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Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., describes the difference between the Trump impeachment and a possible looming Biden impeachment on 'Lawrence...
.Jul 29, 2023
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