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Fox News: Don’t remove Trump from office — you’ll just make his supporters angry again mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…
Andy McCarthy 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 calling for Obama's impeachment. Now McCarthy says that Trump should not be impeached because “our deeply divided country is a tinderbox right now” mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…
Charlie Kirk told Pence to overturn the election and bragged about bussing hundreds if not thousands of people to DC on January 6th. He now tells Fox that removing Trump is a "political revenge campaign" that will "rip our country apart"
Fox & Friends pushed election conspiracy theories for months, and now says, in the wake of the attack, that policy must be catered to Republicans that believe them:
Fox even had Ken Starr complain that impeachment would be too divisive. Yes, really.

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