Tag: Fox News

Even Fox News hosts were aghast after Trump’s summit with Putin

The following article by Alex Horton was posted on the Washington Post website July 17, 2018:

After President Trump cast doubt on U.S. intelligence findings on Russia’s election meddling, network news anchors were flabbergasted, outraged and disgusted. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)

President Trump’s performance at Monday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was “disgusting” and “wrong,” Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto said.

Trump’s acceptance of Putin’s denials of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was “lame,” Fox News anchor Brit Hume said.

Trump “threw the United States under the bus” in Helsinki, Fox News reporter John Roberts said.

View the complete article on the Washington Post website here.

In a Fox-Inspired Tweetstorm, Trump Offers a Medley of Falsehoods and Misstatements Image

The following article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis was posted on the New York Times website July 3, 2018:

President Trump boarded Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday. Credit: Doug Mills The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The string of insults, misstatements, exaggerations and outright falsehoods emanating from the White House began just after sunrise.

In the space of a few hours, President Trump on Tuesday took credit for averting a war with North Korea, charged without proof that President Barack Obama had secretly granted citizenship to thousands of Iranians as part of nuclear disarmament negotiations and appeared to suggest that customers of the motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson were psychic.

He called a sitting congresswoman “crazy” and “corrupt.” He branded the National Security Agency’s handling of millions of telephone call records “a disgrace” — and suggested it was connected to the special counsel investigation into whether his campaign worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 elections.

View the full article on the New York Times website here.

Trump’s newest hire covered up massive sexual harassment at Fox News

The following article by Emily Crockett was posted on the ShareBlue.com website June 28, 2018:

Bill Shine covered up for the biggest slimeballs at Fox News. But he still has no idea what he’s in for at the Trump White House.

Former Fox News executive Bill Shine in 2017. Credit: Mark Lennihan, AP

Trump has found his new communications director, and it’s Bill Shine — the former co-president of Fox News who resigned in disgrace last year over allegations that he covered up for Roger Ailes’ and Bill O’Reilly’s sexual abuse of women.

It sounds like the perfect fit for Trump, in the worst possible way.

A president who is obsessed with his coverage on Fox News will be advised by a former Fox News head honcho who knows how the network operates from the inside. Continue reading “Trump’s newest hire covered up massive sexual harassment at Fox News”

Ex-Fox News Analyst Ralph Peters Unloads on Sean Hannity

The following article by Matt Wilstein was posted on the Daily Beast website Jun3 6, 2018:

The former Fox commentator said Sean Hannity might actually believe his own conspiracy theories, but ‘the others are smarter, they know what they’re doing.’

Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters isn’t done taking his former employer to task. A few months after he quit his position as military analyst at Fox News in dramatic fashion—calling the network a “propaganda machine”—he appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night and went even further in his condemnation.

While President Donald Trump has claimed that special counsel Robert Mueller is leading a “witch hunt” against him, Peters argued on CNN that it is Fox News that is promoting a witch hunt against Mueller. Continue reading “Ex-Fox News Analyst Ralph Peters Unloads on Sean Hannity”

The White House won’t admit that Trump gets ideas from Fox News

The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website April 4, 2018:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asked if a Fox News report influenced President Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to the border. (Reuters)

Fox News’s influence on President Trump, from his tweets to his hires, is obvious. But the White House won’t admit that the most powerful man in the world gets ideas from a TV channel.

At a media briefing Wednesday, ABC’s Cecilia Vega noted Trump’s sudden “sense of urgency about sending the National Guard to the border” and asked, “Does this have anything to do with a report that the president saw on Fox News?” Continue reading “The White House won’t admit that Trump gets ideas from Fox News”

Trump dined with Hannity at Mar-a-Lago: report

The following article by John Bowden was posted on the Hill website March 31, 2018:

 

Credit: Don Emmert, AFP/Getty Images

President Trump reportedly dined with Fox News personality Sean Hannity at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this weekend.

CNN reporter Oliver Darcy tweeted that sources had said the president had dined with Hannity Friday evening. Continue reading “Trump dined with Hannity at Mar-a-Lago: report”

Fox News analyst quits, rips network as a “propaganda machine” in letter to colleagues

The following article by Jen Kirby was posted on the Vox website March 20, 2018:

He signed off: “As our president’s favorite world leader would say, ‘Das vidanya’” — Russian for “goodbye.”

Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters. Credit: Fox News Screen Capture

A Fox News analyst quit in a scathing letter that accused the network of degenerating into “a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.”

Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a strategic analyst for Fox News, said he was leaving the network and laid out his reasoning in a fiery letter to colleagues, obtained by BuzzFeed News. Continue reading “Fox News analyst quits, rips network as a “propaganda machine” in letter to colleagues”

Fox News’ latest ‘bombshell’ on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud

The following article by Judd Legum was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 7, 2018:

Trump is already tweeting about it.

Credit: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images

Early Wednesday, Fox News published an explosive new story alleging President Obama sought detailed briefings about the Clinton email investigation. The report is based on texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page released by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday.

In a text sent on September 2, 2016, Page tells Strozok that “potus wants to know everything we’re doing.” Fox News claims this text “raises questions about Obama’s personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation.” Continue reading “Fox News’ latest ‘bombshell’ on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud”

Nunes Tells Hannity: Clinton Collaborated With Russia to Frame Trump

The following article by Maxwell Tani was posted on the Daily Beast website February 5, 2018:

The House intelligence panel chair said “it’s scary” what people can see if they just stare deeply enough into his memo.

In a remarkable interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes on Monday night claimed it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that had been the real Russian collaborator, and had effectively weaponized the FBI against Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

“It’s what happens in banana republics. It’s scary,” said the California Republican, who claimed that the controversial memo released by the House intel panel last week on a party-line vote showed a “clear link” between the Clinton campaign and Russia. Continue reading “Nunes Tells Hannity: Clinton Collaborated With Russia to Frame Trump”

How Trump’s Allies Fanned an Ember of Controversy Into Flames of Outrage

The following article by Mark Mazzetti was posted on the New York Times website February 2, 2018:

Outside a meeting room used by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday. Credit: Eric Thayer, The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The release of the memo mattered less than #releasethememo.

After weeks of buildup, the three-and-a-half-page document about alleged F.B.I. abuses during the 2016 presidential campaign made public on Friday was broadly greeted with criticism, including by some Republicans. They said it cherry-picked information, made false assertions and was overly focused on an obscure, low-level Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page. Continue reading “How Trump’s Allies Fanned an Ember of Controversy Into Flames of Outrage”