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Fox has been stoking fears all morning about Middle Eastern terrorists using the caravan to enter the country. Examples follow.
Left, Fox & Friends, 6:48 am

Hegseth: "You got the president of Guatemala saying to a local newspaper down there just last week they caught over 100 ISIS fighters in Guatemala trying to [use this caravan]." Adds, "it hasn't been verified."

Right, Trump, 8:37 am
Left, Fox & Friends, 7:07 am

PICCOLO: "How many people are from specially designated countries, how many are potentially ISIS?"

Right, Trump, 8:37 am
Left, Fox & Friends, 7:27 am

Hansberger: "ISIS. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban ... have declared war openly against the United States. So, with the open borders policies we have had, how many of them are in America?"

Right, Trump, 8:37 am
This appears to be conservatives taking the Guatemalan president's statement that they had apprehended "nearly 100 ISIS terrorists" and stretching it to fearmonger about ISIS using the caravan judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/1…
The president is lifting up Fox News bullshit in an effort to win an election by fearmongering about brown people.
Reminder about why all this is happening -- Fox News wanted to exploit a caravan of migrants as a midterm election issue, so that's what Trump is doing mm4a.org/4Tb
Judicial Watch -> fringe right-wing outlets -> Fox & Friends -> Trump
Judicial Watch was the source of that myth too, which was subsequently picked up by Fox and Trump
mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/0…
mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/0…

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When everyone is on board with the White House talking points.
Presidential adviser and Fox host Sean Hannity: "This is a national emergency, it's time to build the wall."
Presidential adviser and Fox host Lou Dobbs: "This president is leading the nation on a national emergency that only he can solve and has the political will. The American people, all they need is a strong leader. He's it."
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1. Trump’s Fox cabinet returned from vacation yesterday and urged him to “stay strong” on the shutdown. mm4a.org/4Qt
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Alright. Time to identify all of the Trump-Fox livetweets that I missed while I was off for the holidays.
I've nailed down around 20 Trump tweets that appear to respond to Fox programming. There are certainly more, but there are a few factors making it more complicated -- lots of tweets about the wall and Syria and the economy that could be, but are not definitively, live-tweets.
I'll start with 12/21.

Left, Fox & Friends, 7:06 am

Doocy: Will McConnell use the nuclear option to get the wall?
Earhartdt: "So far the president has not tweeted about that."

Right, Trump, 8:02 am
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Fox & Friends has effectively replaced DOJ's Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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Attorney for the sailor Trump just pardoned tells me that grabbing Trump’s attention by going on Fox News was a major part of their strategy.

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