"the idea to start their own sham charity."
That sentence presupposes that the Clinton charity foundation is/was a sham. Of course it is not. But Fox pushes the presupposition into the heads of viewers where it takes root and grows or where it fertilizes previous similar actions and grows the lie.
It is a
classic technique of propaganda: slide a lying supposition through
under the radar while the audience is agreeing to the fact above the supposition. It is a fact that Trump started a charity foundation.
Pushing a big lie doesn't work unless you never miss an opportunity to push it. Whenever Fox mentions the Clinton Foundation, they always connect words like "sham" with it. It is the same technique Trump uses whenever he attaches a word to a target: he repeats it relentlessly in every tweet or speech that mentions the target. So he says "failing NY Times" and even though the Times is not failing but is succeeding, gullible people start to think it is failing. Propaganda works like that.
Raw Story writers are gullible and stupid enough to fall for it. Unfortunately they are not alone in the media.
There are many lazy media writers who act as a conveyor belt for Right Wing CONservative talking points. The Cons depend on it.
Unwarranted Assumptions. The fallacies of presumption also fail to provide adequate reason for believing the truth of their conclusions. In these instances, however, the erroneous reasoning results from an implicit supposition of some further proposition whose truth is uncertain or implausible.
Fallacies of Presumption - Philosophy Pages
www.philosophypages.com/lg/e06b.htm
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