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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 07:40 AM Apr 2018

Trump and Fox & Friends Share an Amazing Fantasy About 'Voter Fraud'

Fox News had a shining moment this week when correspondent Ed Henry had Scott Pruitt squirming in his chair over questions about his swampy behavior. But leave it to Fox & Friends to return us to our regularly scheduled programming. The morning show is President Trump's favorite, mostly because he and the hosts have formed a kind of feedback loop where they inform and repeat each other's unreality. So it was Friday morning with the essential bit of nonsense known as "voter fraud."

Trump had one of his public episodes Thursday where he turned a speech on the economy into a rant about, among other things, how "millions and millions" of people in California vote multiple times each election. Being a capital-J journalist, Fox & Friend's Brian Kilmeade repeated this line verbatim without any further context or evidence that it is true:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a19700402/trump-fox-and-friends-california-voter-fraud/
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