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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday allowed former President Donald Trump to lie about his loss in the 2020 presidential election and his incitement of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

During an interview on Fox News, Trump told Bartiromo that he won the "rigged" election in a "landslide," which is not true.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has started another fire taking aim, yet again, at pop singer Taylor Swift. Speaking to the right-wing media outlet Breitbart, the Republican lawmaker "criticized the left for making country music "woke," according to Insider.

Blackburn also insisted entertainers like the "Shake it Off" singer would suffer in a Marxist, socialist-driven society. "If we have a socialistic government, if we have Marxism, you are going to be the first ones who will be cut off because the state would have to approve your music," she said.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger, fans of Donald Trump who were encouraged to take part in his newly announced lawsuit aimed at taking on social media platforms over First Amendment concerns are being roped into a fundraising scheme while believing they will be part of the lawsuit.

Earlier in the week, the former president held a press conference at his Bedminster golf resort where he announced to great fanfare he was filing a class action against companies like Facebook and Twitter for banning him and other conservatives.

The trend of Fox News questioning the safety and effectiveness of vaccines continued on Friday.

Charlie Hurt, the opinion editor of the far-right Washington Times newspaper, blasted the Biden administration over medical privacy. The attacks come as American taxpayers are paying the full cost for hospitalized coronavirus patients, who are almost all unvaccinated.

Republican skepticism toward coronavirus vaccines and American democracy is increasingly being driven by Fox News' right-wing competitors.

One America News Network and Newsmax remain far behind Fox News in TV ratings, but the two upstarts are becoming the primary news source for an increasingly extremist slice of the Republican electorate, reported FiveThirtyEight.

News broke on Wednesday that Fox News host Tucker Carlson tried working through "Russian intermediaries" shortly before he started making explosive claims about being "spied" on by the United States government.

Julia Davis, who conducts analysis of Russian state media for The Daily Beast, noticed on Twitter last month that Carlson was receiving fawning adulation from the Russian press, which praised him for echoing Kremlin talking points about the Capitol riots and also for attacking America's intelligence services.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claims that the American government illegally spied on him reportedly came shortly after he reached out to "Kremlin intermediaries" living in the United States to help him score an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Axios's Jonathan Swan reports that Carlson's attempts to interview Putin came under US officials' radar, although it's not clear how they found out about it.

Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday became one of the first Fox News hosts to cover NSA spying allegations made by Tucker Carlson, one of the network's biggest stars.

Carlson joined Bartiromo on her Mornings with Maria Fox Business program.

COVID-19 has killed over 600,000 Americans, and a disproportionate number of the victims have been elderly. But Fox News' Tucker Carlson doesn't appear to have a great deal of empathy for them.

"In a report from July of last year, the CDC analyzed all deaths," said Carlson in his Tuesday night broadcast. "They found the median age death from COVID was 78. At that point, for all months of 2020, life expectancy in the U.S. was younger than that. It was 77. You think they hyped COVID a little bit? Yeah, they did. If the median age of people dying is older than life expectancy? Yep, they hyped it."

Fox News' campaign against critical race theory shows no signs of abetting, as the network mentioned it more than 100 different times in less than a day on Tuesday.

According to The Daily Beast's Justin Baragona, Fox on Tuesday mentioned critical race theory a whopping 123 times on Tuesday as of 2 p.m. ET.

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed on Tuesday that "all" of America's Founding Fathers were "against slavery" even though more than half of them owned slaves.

McEnany made the assertion while complaining that Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) slammed the July 4 holiday as a celebration for white people.

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Fox News is moving ahead with plans to produce its own dedicated weather channel.

"Later this year, Rupert Murdoch is set to debut Fox Weather, a 24-hour streaming channel that promises to do for 7-day forecasts what Fox has done for American politics, financial news and sports," reported Michael Grynbaum. "Amid a waning appetite for political news in the post-Trump era, media executives are realizing that demand for weather updates is ubiquitous — and for an increasing swath of the country, a matter of urgent concern. In the past week alone, temperatures in the Pacific Northwest broke records, wildfires burned in Colorado, and Tropical Storm Elsa strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean."

In an attempt to hype up Donald Trump's rally in Sarasota, Florida rally on Saturday night that was ignored by the cable network, the new spokesperson for the ex-president directed his fans to a report that specifically called out his lies about the 2020 election.

Sunday morning, spokesperson Liz Harrington tweeted a link to an Al.com story about the rally with Harrington quoting the article stating, "Saturday's Save America Rally in Sarasota attracted a record crowd to the Sarasota Fairgrounds."