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Aug 15, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Gertz's Law of Trump Book Recommendations: He hasn't read them, he's just seen the author on Fox.

Left, Fox & Friends, 7:24 a.m.
Right, Trump, 8:26 a.m.
Left, Fox & Friends, 8:30 a.m.

Loesch: This individual had six previous felony gun charges on him. He also had beaten murder charges and all kinds of stuff.

Right, Trump, 8:59 p.m.
The president's tweet attacking Reps. Tlaib and Omar and urging Israel not to let them visit appears to be a Fox livetweet (though Fox's Benson is arguing that denying them access is a bad idea).

Left, Fox's America's Newsroom, 9:20 a.m.
Right, Trump, 9:57 a.m.
If you're wondering why the president is referring to a New York Times "Deputy Editor" instead of his actual former title, "deputy Washington editor," in this unhinged rant calling for a journalist's firing...

Left, Fox's America's Newsroom, 10:53 a.m.
Right, Trump, 12:30 p.m.

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Jun 25
Fox News is flooding its airwaves with incendiary coverage blaming President Joe Biden for a handful of abhorrent crimes allegedly committed by migrants. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…



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The network’s coverage relentlessly dehumanizes migrants with constant suggestions that the entire group is composed of dangerous criminals and lacks anything resembling subtext. Image
Trump’s election strategy revolves around such fearmongering about migrants. But the Trump/MAGA preferred narrative is both repugnant and inaccurate. Studies show immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, commit violent crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans.
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Jun 17
Major news outlets provided dramatically more coverage of Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial than former President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations this month that, if reelected as president, he may direct prosecutions of his political enemies.
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The Big Three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) collectively produced 18 times more coverage of the trial than of Trump’s calls for politicized prosecutions, while the A-sections of five major newspapers featured six times more articles about the trial, according to a Media Matters review.
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But the stakes of the Hunter Biden trial are nonexistent for anyone outside the Biden family.

At stake in Trump's threats of “revenge” is whether or not the U.S. justice system will continue to turn on anything other than a president's personal grievances.
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Jun 11
Hunter Biden's guilty verdict on federal gun charges comes amid a years-long right-wing media effort to delegitimize the federal justice system as a weaponized arm of the Democratic Party. mediamatters.org/joe-biden/maga…
But MAGA propagandists, rather than abandoning their conspiracy theories, are coalescing around a new twist: The conviction is an “op” in which Hunter Biden is being deliberately sacrificed to protect the rigged system. Image
The new right-wing line that Joe Biden rigged the trial to put his son in prison replaces the old right-wing line that Joe Biden was rigging the trial to keep his son out of prison.
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Apr 30
Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…
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Trump says he'd use the National Guard and even (illegally) the military to arrest and deport millions of migrants. His "plan" is notably light on details, which seems like a guarantee for child-separation-style cruelty. time.com/6972022/donald…
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🚨 Trump says the tax he wants to implement on virtually everything you buy could be in excess of the 10% figure he's floated before. Image
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Mar 12
FLASHBACK: A Trump-appointed prosecutor dropped an unfalsifiable partisan bomb on President Joe Biden Thursday, playing into a years-long right-wing media campaign — and U.S. political journalists decided to treat it as a valid and impartial charge.

mediamatters.org/joe-biden/poli…
The New York Times ran 30 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded." Image
@JuddLegum The Washington Post ran 33 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be." Image
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Feb 15
Sean Hannity's Fox News show ran with this informant's claims in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. He said they proved Joe Biden engaged in "public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/study…
Of course the benefit of building wild conspiracy theories premised on the bogus idea that the DOJ under Biden is in the tank for Democrats is you can move directly to claiming this prosecution is part of the conspiracy. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…
Per the indictment, the informant's story is impossible; he claimed in the 1023 that a Burisma official told him he bribed the Bidens around December 2015, but the informant never met with a Burisma official until 2017. justice.gov/sco-weiss/medi…
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