Internet mocks upcoming pro-Trump version of 'The View': 'Hard pass for those grifters'

Donald Trump and Fox News are both being criticized for a Monday interview in which the right wing media outlet quotes the former president repeatedly ratcheting up the anger in his base over the FBI's lawful execution of a search warrant while claiming he will do whatever he can to help the country.

"Interesting ... stenographic choices in the morning's lead story," notes Wayne State journalism professor Fred Vultee, pointing out Fox News' uncritical copying of whatever the former President told them despite appearing to be under criminal investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act and other federal laws. Vultee, who teaches news editing, political communication, and content analysis, according to his bio, also notes Fox News incorrectly spelled dangerous as "dangrous."

After the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, August 8, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the federal government to “defund the FBI” and “dismantle the DOJ” — and her rhetoric has been echoed by other far-right MAGA Republicans and supporters of former President Donald Trump. But one conservative non-MAGA Republican who is adamantly opposed to defunding the FBI or dismantling the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. During a Sunday, August 14 appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” Hogan forcefully called out the MAGA Republicans who have been demonizing the FBI since the Mar-a-Lago search.

“Defund the FBI” is Greene’s version of “defund the police,” a slogan that left-wing activists unveiled in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The ironic part about Greene saying “Defund the FBI” is that “defund the police” is a slogan that right-wing media pundits have been using to attack the Democratic Party, although truth be told, “defund the police” is a slogan used by street activists — not part of the official Democratic Party platform. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (a former police officer), and former Philadelphia Mayor Mike Nutter are among the many Democrats who have stressed that they are adamantly opposed to defunding the police. And the Rev. Al Sharpton, the liberal activist who hosts “Politics Nation” on MSNBC, has said that while he supports “reforming the police,” he is opposed to defunding the police.

Embattled Trump-loving cable news network One America News is no longer welcome at the DEF CON hacker conference after it repeatedly broke rules about taking photos and video at the event that could compromise hackers' identities.

Vice News reports that a DEF CON spokesperson revealed this week that OAN "violated DEF CON’s privacy policy, repeatedly taking photo and video showing people’s faces without the consent of those individuals."