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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

How Fox News Is Quietly Covering Up Stories That Make Trump Look Weak

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been hit by a lot of bad news lately. His former vice president declined to endorse him. His legal travails are getting worse. And some states are lurching to new extremes on abortion, making it impossible for Trump to shrug off responsibility for the end of Roe v. Wade. Yet as Media Matters has documented, Fox News appears to be dramatically downplaying a lot of these stories. We talked to Media Matters news director John Whitehouse about Fox’s evolution into a pro-Trump propaganda network and what that says about today’s right wing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

1:04.3

Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been hit by a lot of bad news lately.

1:09.6

His former vice president, Mike Pence, declined to endorse him.

1:13.6

His legal travails are getting worse,

1:16.1

and the Arizona State Supreme Court just revived an 1864 law

1:20.6

banning almost all abortions, making it much harder for Trump

1:24.2

to get away with saying the issue should be left to the states.

1:28.3

Yet one cable news channel isn't covering a lot of this stuff, Fox News. Media Matters has

1:34.5

documented in detail that Fox is barely covering news that casts serious doubt on Trump's presidential

1:40.5

hopes. This trend appears to be getting worse. So we invited Media Matters news director

1:46.7

John Whitehouse on the show to discuss what's really going on here. Good to have you here, John.

1:52.5

It's great to be here. So you guys just did a piece detailing that Fox devoted a really infinitesimal

1:59.3

amount of time to the Arizona abortion ruling.

2:02.3

What did you find and how on earth is this real?

2:06.3

Fox News covered this draconian ruling in Arizona for 24 minutes total, which is just incredible.

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