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Fox hosts ridiculed on MSNBC for being exposed as Trump's foes while crawling back to him for ratings
March 28, 2023
"Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em," MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said showing clips of former President Donald Trump speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity this week.
Court documents in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox, Hannity was revealed to have been among those who tried to fire a fact-checker.
"The twice-impeached ex-president who is under a lot of legal scrutiny, as Sean Hannity just said, and Fox News, which is facing a lot of legal scrutiny," said Wallace. Trump, she said, "appeared last night with Sean Hannity, who is an important figure in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. The ex-president, interestingly, went on that network's airwaves and pedaled his bogus and disproven election conspiracies at the heart of that suit. He called the multiple criminal investigations into his actions before, during, and after his presidency an effort at rebranding. We think, Donald Trump is a master of projection. His delusions and rantings, and conspiracies about a deep state, the election, and Democrats aside, the timing of Trump's appearance on Fox News is notable because it comes at a time when efforts by Dominion to hold Fox News accountable for the lies it broadcast on its programs exposed how those at Fox News privately dismissed and disparaged and despised Trump and his election fraud claims."
MSNBC contributor Jeremy Peters cited the information revealed in the lawsuit that Fox was suffering from a significant rating drop that freaked out everyone in the network from the top executives to hosts worried about their stock.
"This is important," Wallace interrupted. "This is important. Explain this. I mean, Fox News became the juggernaut that it is during the Clinton/Obama presidency."
"Exactly. Roger Ailes, the former CEO and co-founder of the network, told people it was better for Fox to have a Democrat in the White House than a Republican because Fox always got ignored by Republican administrations," said Peters. "He felt like the Bush administration, in particular, kind of pushed Fox to the side, we don't need to worry about you. It also kind of bored their audience. they weren't as interested because it wasn't adversarial television. To have a Democrat in the White House, that was good television, combative, and made them such a ratings powerhouse. Since 2022, they have never not been number one in the ratings. Now they are, in the most recent quarter, not just the biggest, or the most highly rated network in cable news but all of cable. Think about that for a minute."
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Donald Trump's lawyers motioned for a summary judgment in the E. Jean Carroll case. If approved, it would mean that the judge would look at nothing more than the evidence presented and the statements given and make a ruling based on that.
In a new filing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump's motion.
"The contrasts between Mr. Trump’s assertions in his Carroll I answer and his October 12 statement show that a reasonable juror could find that his statement had a different effect on a reader than his denials and affirmative defense in his answer," the judge wrote. "For one, 'a reasonable juror could find that [Mr.] Trump was complaining of a far broader and more corrosive conspiracy than anything that was at issue in Carroll I in October 2022,' including based on his statements that Ms. Carroll 'completely made up a story' that is a 'Hoax' and 'changed her story from beginning to end [(in an interview where she was promoting her book)]. .. to suit the purposes of CNN and And [erson] Cooper,' along with his comments about the judiciary and Ms. Carroll's counsel."
The judge explained that the court doesn't decide whether Trump's statement is or isn't "fair and true."
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The Court need not and does not now decide the ultimate issue of whether Mr. Trump's statement is or is not a "fair and true."
"It suffices for the purpose of denying summary judgment that a reasonable jury could find so as a matter of fact. For the foregoing reasons, Mr. Trump's motion for partial summary judgment is denied," the 22-page document closes.
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Is this the real reason Trump keeps making vapid jokes about parents hating their kids?
March 28, 2023
Former President Donald Trump has developed a favorite new joke on the campaign trail: that his followers hate their kids. And while it's largely tongue-in-cheek, it's coming from a real place, and an understanding Trump has about the tension in his supporters' families, wrote Philip Bump for The Washington Post on Tuesday.
One of the most recent instances of Trump dropping this joke was during a video in which he was touting his 2017 tax bill's provision doubling the exemption for the estate tax.
“Some day, it’ll become time for [farmers] to leave this beautiful earth, and they’ll be able to leave their farm, without taxes, to their children. I got rid of the ‘death tax’ on farms so that when you do pass away, on the assumption that you love your children, you can leave it to them and they won’t have to pay tax," said Trump in the clip. “But if you don’t love your children so much,” he continued, “and there are some people that don’t — and maybe deservedly so — it won’t matter, because, frankly, you don’t have to leave them anything. Thank you very much. Have fun.”
"On the surface, the explanation is simple," wrote Bump. "Trump is trying to make a joke that doesn’t land when offered emotionlessly into a camera. But there’s something deeper here, too: Trump understands, if only intuitively, how much anxiety his base feels about younger Americans, including those to whom they happen to be related."
A generation gap has been growing for years in American politics. Generation Z and Millennial voters both lean firmly Democratic, with no indication of this trend weakening, while Baby Boomer and particularly Generation X voters are just as firmly Republican. "A lot of Trump supporters really are wary of their own kids and grandchildren," wrote Bump. "The roots of Trumpism extend back to the election of Barack Obama in 2008." The gap between younger and older voters was 42 points in that election. Further, these older voters were aghast at their kids' and grandkids' support for a president whom Fox News told them was a "socialist" — an anxiety Trump seized on to get elected himself.
"Trump’s comments about unloved kids was mostly a bad joke. But it did get at something deeper, too, a sense that younger Americans might 'deservedly' be unloved by their parents. Maybe your kids are Democrats who voted for Joe Biden. Do you want to give them your farm?" concluded Bump. "The response here is simple: Those kids probably don’t want the farm anyway."
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