John Knefel
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative. (opens the original)
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After nearly two years of Fox News claiming that President Donald Trump’s deportation operations were targeting the so-called “worst of the worst,” the administration has acknowledged that it is indeed attempting to go after every person it thinks is in the United States without authorization. The administration’s confirmation that it is not prioritizing people with violent criminal convictions and is in fact seizing anybody it believes to be deportable, even against court orders, undercuts Fox
Fox & Friends keeps pushing Trump to expand the Iran war to Yemen (opens the original)
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Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade has repeatedly advocated for attacking the Houthis in Yemen in what would amount to a significant expansion of the simmering Iran war. The Houthi movement, known officially as Ansar Allah, has been in a protracted war with Saudi Arabia since 2015. The two parties established a fragile ceasefire in 2022, which the Saudis broke in July of this year when they bombed the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. Both the Biden and Trump admi
Steve Bannon’s guest admits that a national emergency declaration on elections would likely be overturned by the Supreme Court (opens the original)
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A guest on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast acknowledged on September 16 that if President Donald Trump is going to declare a national emergency and try to seize power over election systems, the order would definitely be challenged in court and would almost certainly be overturned. Brian Kennedy, senior fellow at MAGA-aligned think tank the Claremont Institute and frequent War Room guest, argued that Wayne Allyn Root, another Bannon favorite, was wrong in claiming that a national emergency declar
Who is Wayne Allyn Root, the right-wing pundit pushing Trump to undermine the midterms? (opens the original)
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Wayne Allyn Root, a right-wing media figure in President Donald Trump's orbit who has spent years spreading conspiracy theories, is trying to advance a plot to subvert the upcoming midterm elections based on outlandish legal reasoning and expansive theories of presidential authority. By all available accounts, the Trump administration and its allies in right-wing media are waging an all-out, if haphazard, campaign to subvert the upcoming midterm elections. This throw-it-all-at-the-wall-and-see-w
Top Fox News hosts criticize El-Sayed for 9/11 comments that mirror their colleagues’ (opens the original)
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Top Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, and Laura Ingraham all amplified an August 31 CBS News report that relied on innuendo and Islamophobia to falsely imply that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed had made disrespectful comments about the victims of 9/11. In fact, as Media Matters reported, El-Sayed’s comments — which urged the United States to respond to the growing death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic with a whole-of-government approach — were entirely in line with m
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