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I'm having trouble with Trump's tweets from the last 12 hours or so. There are some odd anomalies.
Here's a tweet from this morning, which splices together several quotes from last night's Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Left, Fox News transcript, 8:12 pm
Right, Trump, 8:12 am
Then immediately another tweet from the same segment.

Left, Fox News, 8:15 pm
Right, Trump, 8:18 am
That's an extremely and unusually tight turnaround if Trump is just watching the program and tweeting quotes. And the quotes in the two tweets are too accurate to be on the fly.
Fox ran segments on this on all three primetime shows and on Fox & Friends this morning, but I haven't been able to find this quote, either in a caption or with a commentator saying it.
Fox didn't talk about this poll last night. I think the president was alerting them to it and asking for coverage, rather than tweeting that he had seen coverage.
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