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When they are speaking in public, Fox News personalities will tell their audience that Donald Trump is brilliant and articulate. He can talk fluently on every single topic with no preparation, insisted Sean Hannity last night.
In private, they know perfectly well that Trump rambles incoherently. CNN has obtained more texts sent to Trumps chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in the days surrounding the insurrection. They find Fox News talent working as unpaid Trump staffers Hannity asked Meadows for talking points, and replied Yes sir when given them while also conveying their clear understand that Trump needs hand-holding to make it through an interview.
Maria Bartiromo, in particular, asked Meadows to Pls make sure he doesnt go off on tangents during a planned interview. She also supplied him with a list of questions and, in one instance, the answer:
The question that contains the answer is, Then I will drill down on the fraud including the statistical impossibilities of Biden magic (federalist). Bartiromo is referring charges on the right that Joe Bidens victory was some kind of statistical anomaly, and (federalist) likely refers to an article published by the Federalist, a right-wing publication, a few days earlier, headlined 5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms.
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(37,452 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The former guy called Putin about something or other, his aides wrote it in big letters on a crib card: DO NOT CONGRATULATE. The U.S. didn't want to lend unwarranted credibility to the Russian election process. So what does the dumbass do? Congratulated Putin.
Fox is right about one thing: This is no longer about the former guy. It's about sowing lies and reaping corruption.