Trump’s Fox News Allies Suddenly Erupt in Panic as MAGA Lies Fail Him

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In recent days, Fox News personalities have begun urging Donald Trump to get more “disciplined.” Many seem to fear Trump is in trouble, as evidence mounts that his sleazy, racist attacks on Kamala Harris are backfiring. Yet Trump’s Fox allies aren’t telling him to stop smearing Harris with falsehoods; they’re just telling him to adopt a more civil tone in doing so. We talked to Steve Benen, author of a new book about the GOP called Ministry of Truth, who explains how the Fox News panic shows the limits of Republican propaganda—and why the Trump-MAGA-GOP addiction to lying is pushing our system to the breaking point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.1	In recent days, Fox News personalities have begun publicly urging Donald Trump to get more disciplined.
1:29.9	Many of them seem to fear Trump is in trouble. His sleazy racist attacks on Kamala Harris are failing to land and are backfiring by
1:36.2	making him look, well, sleazy and racist. What's amusing about this is that Fox itself spent
1:42.6	years developing the very same smears of
1:45.0	Harris that Trump is now attempting.
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