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1. This hasn't gotten a ton of attention by the White House has WAIVED federal ethics laws to allow new White House Communications Director Bill Shine to coordinate freely with Fox News.

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2. White House Counsel Don McGahn, in a stunning memo, explicitly says that the White House's need to collaborate with Fox News is more important than concerns about integrity.

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3. Look, it's not secret that Fox News is a GOP mouthpiece. That's why it was created.

But during the Trump administration it's become something very different.

It's a state-run propaganda network.

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4. Hannity and Trump talk multiple times per day

People in the White House say Hannity is more influential than Trump's Chief of Staff, John Kelly

There is no distinction between the White House’s communication strategy and Fox News’ editorial strategy

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5. Here's a fun fact:

I counted and Trump has tagged @foxandfriends 75 times since becoming presdient

Over the same time period Trump has tagged his wife, Melania, 31 times

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6. I'm really being very generous because if you look through the tweets where Trump tags Melania it's very clear he didn't write them.

They are almost all ones with produced video that Dan Scavino posts

The Fox & Friends tweets are all Trump

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7. Of course, a state-run propaganda network isn't unprecedented.

But Fox News is.

It's a state-run propaganda network that is funded not by the government but by corporations

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8. Corporations occasionally leave Fox News when one of their hosts says something awful or is accused of serial sexual harassment.

Everyone seems cool with bankrolling government propaganda

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TRUMP: "At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

What Democrat has requested a border wall made of steel?
TRUMP: "The border wall would very quickly pay for itself."

Absolutely no evidence of this. Trump cites the cost of illegal drugs, most of which come through official ports of entry.
TRUMP: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."

This is not true. And the deal hasn't even been approved by Congress.
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A total and humiliating capitation to a president with no interest in the truth.

The news media is supposed to inform the public.

They are now being used to disseminate government propaganda.
REMEMBER: When Obama wanted to address the nation on immigration, the networks refused to air it because they believe it would be "overtly political."

What a joke.

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The idea that a Democratic rebuttal or fact-checking will make this better is insulting.

If I break my arm and a doctor gives me a cast, I'm thankful.

If a doctor breaks my arm and hands me a band-aid, it's not a favor.
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Any network that airs this live is knowingly participating in a disinformation campaign
Some conflicting info, but @JenniferJJacobs of Bloomberg says the networks will air this live

This show just how deeply the mainstream media misunderstands Trump and his tactics

@JenniferJJacobs This is what happened when Obama gave a primetime address on immigration in 2014
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Wow, how did Fox News get this exclusive, wow.
Seriously, though, the fact that Bill Shine--who had to leave Fox News for his role in covering up sexual harassment there--is leading the Trump White House media strategy over a SCOTUS nominee accused of sexual assault is really just a perfect encapsulation of where we are now.
That said, I'm sad they didn't place this interview with the obvious choice:
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WH COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR BILL SHINE on @kaitlancollins being barred from WH event yesterday: "You ask her if we ever used the word 'ban.' When you ask her if you ever use the word 'ban,' then I will answer questions."
CNN enhanced the audio of the questions @kaitlancollins tried to ask Trump that resulted in her being barred from a White House event
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Today's designated @WhiteHouse TV pool reporter @kaitlancollins says on air she was barred from the Rose Garden open press event this afternoon because "the White House did not like the questions I posed to President Trump earlier today."
Her questions were about @MichaelCohen212 and came at the end of the Oval Office 'pool spray' for the meeting between @POTUS and @JunckerEU.
Reporter @kaitlancollins says she was summoned by new @WhiteHouse communications director Bill Shine and @PressSec and told because of her pool spray questions she was being reprimanded and wouldn't be permitted to attend the open press event. (This is apparently unprecedented.)
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What the fuck just happened today?

⚡️ Day 536: Piece of trash.

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1/ Trump says he is "very close to making a decision" on his Supreme Court nominee. Aides, however, have prepped rollouts for multiple Supreme Court nominees knowing that Trump could change his mind at the last minute.

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2/ White House communications director Bill Shine will attend Trump's meeting with Putin in Helsinki on July 16.

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Trump just made a #MeToo joke.

No, really.
That just happened.
He also called Elizabeth Warren a fake Indian and "Pocahontas" for the zillionth time. #MeToo
And also: Commercial DNA tests cost from $60-150 dollars, not $2.

With any other president, this would be akin to a president not knowing how much a gallon of milk or gas costs and would be talked about for WEEKS. It would be a goddamn campaign issue.
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