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MMFA: How Fox is dismissing the unsealed Trump filing [View all]
Matthew Gertz
Fox News stars don't want Trump's criminal behavior to be an election issue — because they're running the same scheme again
8:31 AM · Oct 4, 2024
Fox News stars don't want Trump's criminal behavior to be an election issue — because they're running the same scheme again
8:31 AM · Oct 4, 2024
MMFA - How Fox is dismissing the unsealed Trump filing
Fox News stars don't want Trump's criminal behavior to be an election issue — because they're running the same scheme again
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 10/03/24 11:41 AM EDT
Fox News stars are running cover for Donald Trump after special counsel Jack Smith provided extensive new revelations about the former president’s scheme to use lies about fraud to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, culminating with a mob of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. The network has spent four years supporting Trump’s subversion plot, covering up his attempt to steal that election, and paving the way for him to try again next month.
“With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results,” states Smith’s filing, which the judge overseeing Trump’s federal criminal prosecution for his 2020 election conspiracy unsealed in partially redacted form on Wednesday. “The through line of these efforts was deceit: the defendant’s and co-conspirators’ knowingly false claims of election fraud.”
The filing includes previously unreported details about Trump’s activities leading up to and on January 6, 2021. It recounts how Republican leaders, including Vice President Mike Pence, had urged Trump to stop pushing election fraud claims that lacked evidence; that some of the claims appeared entirely fabricated; and Trump’s lack of interest in curtailing the mob he had incited — when an aide told him Pence had been taken to a secure location, the then-president allegedly responded, “So what?”
Some at Fox recognized the gravity of this moment.
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Fox News stars don't want Trump's criminal behavior to be an election issue — because they're running the same scheme again
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 10/03/24 11:41 AM EDT
Fox News stars are running cover for Donald Trump after special counsel Jack Smith provided extensive new revelations about the former president’s scheme to use lies about fraud to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, culminating with a mob of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. The network has spent four years supporting Trump’s subversion plot, covering up his attempt to steal that election, and paving the way for him to try again next month.
“With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results,” states Smith’s filing, which the judge overseeing Trump’s federal criminal prosecution for his 2020 election conspiracy unsealed in partially redacted form on Wednesday. “The through line of these efforts was deceit: the defendant’s and co-conspirators’ knowingly false claims of election fraud.”
The filing includes previously unreported details about Trump’s activities leading up to and on January 6, 2021. It recounts how Republican leaders, including Vice President Mike Pence, had urged Trump to stop pushing election fraud claims that lacked evidence; that some of the claims appeared entirely fabricated; and Trump’s lack of interest in curtailing the mob he had incited — when an aide told him Pence had been taken to a secure location, the then-president allegedly responded, “So what?”
Some at Fox recognized the gravity of this moment.
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