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'You were on board': Fox News host confronts Mike Lee for role in fake electors plot

Fox News host Shannon Bream challenged Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) over his role in a plot to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

During an interview on Fox News, Bream noted that Lee has been accused of participating in a plot to use fake electors to change the outcome of the presidential election.

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Maggie Haberman reveals the one moment when Trump 'shocked even her'

In an interview with the Guardian's David Smith, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman described her more than four years covering Donald Trump and admitted that nothing much surprised her after having been familiar with his antics while growing up in New York City.

However, as she noted, there was one time during his presidency that she described as a "striking moment" which ended up having major repercussions for his presidency.

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'Some kind of a plant': Disgraced ex-Fox News anchor hurls conspiracy theory at John Durham

Two disgraced conservative anchors complained on Thursday that special counsel John Durham might be "some kind of a plant" and "another sinister crafty plot by the Democrats."

After Durham's latest failure to prove wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia probe, Real America's Voice hosts Ed Henry and Karyn Turk lashed out at the special counsel.

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How Sean Hannity has given GOP candidates millions in free promotion

Fox News personality Sean Hannity is giving a major boost to Republican candidates ahead of the 2022 midterms, according to a new analysis by The Washington Post.

The newspaper noted that during one show two Wednesdays ago, Hannity interviewed three GOP Senate candidates. First was Sen. Ron Johnson, who is being challenged by Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin. Next was J.D. Vance, who facing Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio. And then Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is battling Attorney General Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania.

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Fox News CEO to be deposed in Dominion defamation lawsuit for pushing election lies: report

Fox News Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Scott is expected to be deposed in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against the media giant by Dominion Voting Systems, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Dominion is suing Fox along with allies of former President Donald Trump for claiming that its electronic voting machines stole votes from Trump and switched them to then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The allegations are but one facet of Trump World's debunked conspiracy theories that the contest between the twice-impeached ex-president and Biden was rigged and rife with fraud.

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Kayleigh McEnany opposes John Fetterman using movie as 'metaphor' because it's 'fiction'

Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany appears not to know how metaphors work.

The co-anchor of Fox's Outnumbered program attacked Democratic Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman for using the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" as a metaphor because it is a work of "fiction."

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'Answer the question!' Herschel Walker faces angry crowd as campaign event goes off the rails

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker faced an angry crowd as he conducted a campaign event on Tuesday.

Walker spoke in Atlanta outside of Columbia Towers apartment building, which is owned by Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D-GA) church. Walker blasted Warnock because the church is reportedly evicting some of the tenants.

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'You're even more in the crosshairs': Alex Jones comforts Steve Bannon as DOJ seeks jail time

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones may have legal problems but he says he wouldn't want to trade places with Steve Bannon.

During a Tuesday appearance on Bannon's War Room: Pandemic podcast, Jones comforted the embattled former Trump adviser over reports that the Justice Department is seeking to sentence him to six months in jail and a $200,000 fine after he defied a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 Committee.

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'Explain yourself': Fox News host challenges Ron Johnson after he's booed at debate

Fox News host Bill Hemmer challenged Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to explain himself after he was booed at a recent debate with Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

Hemmer noted that Johnson was asked to name "admirable" qualities of his opponent but instead claimed that Barnes had "turned against America."

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Financial analyst blows a hole in Kanye West's plan to take over far-right Parler

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," financial analyst and CNBC "Squawk Box" host Andrew Ross Sorkin smirked and laughed at a report that hip-hop star and former reality show participant Kanye West plans to buy the far-right social media platform known as Parler.

Early Monday morning, Axios reported that West "has entered into 'an agreement in principle'" to purchase Parler from parent company Parlement Technologies, with the company issuing a statement that adds that, Axios reports, "Parler has agreed to sell fully to Ye, but Parler will continue to receive technical support from Parlement Technologies, including access to its private cloud services and its data center infrastructure."

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Republicans are trapped in a 'Triangle of Doom' that will cripple the party: conservative pollster

In a column for the Bulwark, conservative campaign consultant Sarah Longwell claims the Republican Party as it was once constituted will soon be a thing of the past because all the "good Republicans" are being driven from the party.

Reacting to the news that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) is surrendering his seat in order to become the president of the University of Florida, joining an exodus of GOP lawmakers who have thrown up their hands over the influence of Donald Trump, Longwell claims there is a sea-change in the GOP that has its roots in what she calls the "right-wing infotainment" industry.

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Trump attorney fumes over 'political' decision not to indict client before midterms

Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, called the Justice Department's investigation "a political hack" because of a decision not to indict her client before the midterm elections.

During a Saturday appearance on Newsmax, host Rob Schmitt pointed out that the Justice Department has reportedly decided not to charge Trump ahead of the elections.

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Kellyanne Conway: Trump isn't a problem because his election lies 'lessened over time'

Former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway defended former President Donald Trump because his lies about the 2020 election have "lessened over time."

While appearing on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz asked Conway if Trump's insistence that the 2020 election was "rigged" and "stolen" was a distraction for the Republican Party.

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