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Hours after Maj. Matt Golsteyn's lawyer appeared on Fox to discuss his client's murder charge, the president says he's "reviewing the case," quotes Fox chyron, tags host Pete Hegseth.

Left, Fox & Friends, 7:26 am
Right, Trump, 10:03 am
In April I wrote about the Fox News pardon pipeline, in which lawyers appeal for presidential intercession via his television set.
mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/1…
And we're off to the races.

Left, Fox & Friends, 7:46 am
Right, Trump, 10:20 am
The timing of the follow-up tweet is confirmation that the Golsteyn tweet was an immediate response to the Fox segment.
The president of the United States having a normal afternoon of watching the Journal Editorial Report on Fox and ranting about the Mueller probe.

Left, Fox, 3:17 pm
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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
2. For the first 10 days, Trump had to watch the B-team cover his shutdown. But now Hannity, Dobbs, and company are back, and they are continuing to egg him on.
3. Trump's Fox cabinet has been a problem for a while. But we are now moving toward a dynamic where they possess real veto power over government actions.
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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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Anybody else remember a story about soldiers in three European countries getting arrested for planning coups? Whatever happened with that?

Did I dream it?
2018, boy, I dunno.
Somebody help me out here, this is driving me crazy.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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Tense scenes on Fox as Sheriff Clarke & host Eboni Williams spar over civil rights icon John Lewis.
"John who?" Clarke says dismissively.
Williams: "For you to say that nobody cares about John Lewis is inaccurate because I assure you there are many people that do"
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Williams: "I appreciate that history lesson but as somebody that holds a degree on the subject I really don't need you to update me on who was required"

Clarke: "Apparently you've forgotten your history"
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