The media play propagandists for Hamas.

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because I feel like it's overused. I think there are a lot of people out there who use the phrase fake news to mean news I don't like. But what we have seen over the past 48 hours has been absolutely fake news from the mainstream media who are just parroting lines from Hamas. At this point, they are just parroting lines from one of the world's worst terror groups. It is obvious and it is disgusting.

Really horrifying.

It's nothing new.

In 2014, I was on CNN in the middle of the Gaza War, and I actually told the CNN anchor to her face that Hamas was, in fact, a propaganda wing of Hamas.

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