CNN’s John King: “When that plane leaves Joint Base Andrews, it takes four years of grievance politics away from Washington.”
Fox's Ainsley Earhardt: "I guarantee there will be a lot of Trump supporters down there in florida welcoming home after being president of the United States."
CNN's Jake Tapper: "This is a textbook case of how not to leave the presidency: whine and cry, pretend that you didn't lose, incite your supporters, stage an insurrection ... You think that he couldn't get any more disgraceful. Just give him a few more hours."
Steve Doocy: "He's making this final walk to Marine 1. He will get on many more helicopters in his lifetime, but he will never get on Marine 1 again"
Ainsley: "Melania has a very Aubrey Hepburn look. It's not lost on me she is wearing black. She just looks gorgeous, as always."
I guess Steve Doocy is guessing that Trump will not run again in 2024?
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy: "Regarding the press, he never got a break. He's got to be a little steamed that nobody in the history of the American presidency has been beaten up as badly as Donald Trump has been over the last 4 years."
Steve Doocy: "He ran as a disruptor, and on this inauguration day for Joe Biden, the 46th president, he is the disruptor. He will be a disruptor in so much as he is not going to attend the inauguration of Joe Biden, because he's leaving on his terms."
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Fox News seems to be hoping that the fact-check clip that ran on Lou Dobbs last night and will run on Judge Jeanine tonight and Maria Bartiromo tomorrow will satisfy @smartmatic's demand for a retraction of misinfo. No response from Smartmatic yet, though: washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/…
UPDATE: OSET's co-founder says his group had no idea what the segment would be used for. “In fact, it was a bit sketchy in terms of Fox disclosures about purpose,” he said. "We were all surprised when it ran, how it was framed, and what it ended up being.” washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/…
The identical segment featuring Eddie Perez aired as scheduled during the last segment of Jeanine Pirro's show, which was hosted by Lisa Boothe.
Boothe said: "We asked him what he knew about Smartmatic and the claims some have made about that company.”
Maria Bartiromo not pushing back at all as Sidney Powell alleges (without proof) that "they were flipping votes in the computer system or adding votes that did not exist. ... They had this all planned, Maria. They had the paper ballots waiting to be inserted, if and when needed."
"Sidney, these are incredible charges that you are making this morning," Bartiromo says. "We of course will be following this, and we thank you for joining me today. Please come back soon."
Can't stress how big this is - Jedediah Billa on Fox: "To come out and say that there is voter fraud ... to make a statement about an election being stolen or an election being rigged, that can be a dangerous statement. That can really rile people up. I haven't seen any evidence"
.@margarettalev reports on CNN that Trump campaign is concerned that Fox News might be the first network to call the election for Biden -- "the feeling is: if it were Fox to call it, it would be tremendously bad for optics, which as we know is really important to the president."
Fox and Friends opens with the Ellie Goulding song "Anything Can Happen."
("This was definitely not a referendum on Trump," Ainsley Earhardt says.)
The Fox and Friends hosts are focusing on Democratic Senate and House losses.