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4:34Now PlayingDonald Trump pulled an all-nighter on Truth Social this week, staying up and posting about how much he hates the conservative cable news network. The convicted felon posted a series of memes about how bad Fox has allegedly gotten, and how Republicans will have to win this year’s election without them. This shows not only Trump’s further descent into madness, but it also proves that Republicans view Fox as a political arm of their campaigns. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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On Monday evening, Fox News aired a very softball interview with Donald Trump. Laura Ingram was the interviewer. Trump was, you know, sitting there getting all these softball questions. Basically, it turned into like an hour long campaign commercial that aired on Fox News on Monday night. But after it aired, Donald Trump then proceeded to stay up almost all night long posting on social media about how much he hates Fox News. Again, they just aired this like 60 minute infomercial for the Trump campaign, and he spent the entire night, couldn't get himself to sleep because he was so cranky that Fox News apparently was in the tank for Kamala Harris. Here is what kicked it off. Donald Trump posted this on truth social. He said, why is Fox News putting on crazy Kamala Harris rallies? Why do they allow the perverts at the Failed and Disgrace Lincoln Project to advertise on Fox News? Even Mr. Kellyann Conway, a man so badly hurt and humiliated by his wife, she must have done some really nasty things to him because he is crazy, is advertising on Fox News. We have to win without Fox.
And then after that, after he put out this attack on Fox News, he spent the next few hours, I mean not kidding hours reading all of the responses from random nobodies on truth social like these are just average everyday people that Donald Trump, the former president of the United States. He then starts reposting their horrible comments about Fox News and at one point he retweeted one or Retrie one, as it's called, on Truth social, uh, that said, that Shannon Bream and Neil Cavuto to Fox Anchors were on the Soros payroll. Lee Trump is literally now reposting stuff on truth social claiming Fox News hosts are being paid off by George Soros. And it wasn't just reposting angry attacks on Fox News. He was reposting other people attacking Nancy Pelosi. He was of course, reposting attacks on Kamala Harris. But there's two big points to this. One, Trump is so freaked out that he's not sleeping at night.
He is staying up all night showing the world how scared he is. And that's never a good look, right? That's not the big, strong, tough guy that Trump wants to portray himself as. That is a weak and cowardly person hiding behind a keyboard. That's what he is now. But the second thing it shows with Trump saying, we have to win without Fox. What that is, folks, and, and this is a big deal and it should be treated as a big deal, is that Republicans view Fox News as an arm of their political campaigns. They understand that that is their propaganda network and that they have to have Fox to win. Now,
If I were any of the regulators, whether at the FTC or at the FEC, that's the kind of comment that to me, should spark an investigation, right? Because right now Fox News is regulated and enjoys the legal protections of being a media outlet. But if Republicans are admitting to us that Fox News is actually not a media outlet, it's actually an arm of their campaign apparatus, then that changes the rules that they have to abide by. It changes everything with the regulations of Fox News. So at the very least, I think an investigation should get underway to find out if Fox News is a legitimate news channel, or I mean, even if they're pushing propaganda, that you can do that legally. But if it is viewed by anyone in the upper echelons of that network as an arm of the Republican campaign apparatus, then suddenly you're under a whole new set of regulations and those regulations are gonna be far tougher than the ones you face as a media network. Trump's admitting what Fox News really is. It's a Republican campaign arm, and it should therefore be regulated as such.
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