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Matthew Gertz
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This description of David Bossie in CNN's piece on a pending White House impeachment response team seems insufficient. Bossie was *forced to resign* from his job on the Oversight Committee because he got caught doctoring transcripts. cnn.com/2019/09/26/pol…
Bossie, of course, works at Fox now.
Bossie would be the 19th person to go from Fox to the Trump administration.
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Matthew Gertz
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There was a time Republican senators said that it would have been bad if Trump had sought help from foreign governments to swing an election, but he hadn't done it. Now he's openly admitting that that's what he's doing, so they're fine with the behavior.
Everything related to the whistleblower is moot. He's publicly asking countries that have weak or no rule of law and stand to benefit from U.S. policy to investigate his political opponents. Either that's acceptable or it isn't.
.@pbump has this at post-length, check it out washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
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Matthew Gertz
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Me last week: "This is why Fox News exists: Nixon didn’t have Fox. Trump does. And that may make all the difference." mediamatters.org/fox-news/why-f…
More: "Is the whistleblower who originally reported President Trump's phone call with the President of Ukraine to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community a Patriot or a Traitor?"

Fox News Viewers
Patriot: 13%
Traitor: 49%

Non-Fox Viewers
Patriot: 49%
Traitor: 15%
More: "The impeachment inquiry is a partisan 'witch hunt."

Fox News Viewers:
Agree: 69%
Disagree: 14%

Non-Fox Viewers
Agree: 30%
Disagree: 45%
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Matthew Gertz
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Trump watching Fox Business again this morning.

Left, Fox Business, 6:00 a.m.
Right, Trump, 6:37 a.m.
The Fox-obtained "documents" in question are Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani's notes from an interview he did with Viktor Shokin, the corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor Biden got fired. Fox is building a segment around this because it's effectively state TV.
Fox & Friends running with this too. Amazing that they were able to obtain Giuliani's notes, I'm sure it involved significant journalism and not just Rudy handing them over knowing they'd report them as news.
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