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27 Mar 2021, 7:03 am

Laura Ingraham cut Trump off when he tried to repeat false claims that the election was stolen, as Fox News faces defamation lawsuits

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The Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday cut off former President Donald Trump after he launched into a tirade and tried to falsely claim again that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Ingraham cut in. "Speaking as a lawyer," she said, "we're not going to relitigate the past."

Smartmatic named the Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro as defendants in the lawsuit, as well as Powell and Giuliani. It said the network, the hosts, and officials had spread "disinformation" about its technology. Fox has filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit.

Early Friday, the voting-machine company Dominion filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News.


Trump tries to defend Capitol rioters on Fox News, gets shut down by Laura Ingraham
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In a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Donald Trump strongly defended his followers who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, insisting that they posed "zero threat" to the lawmakers who had assembled that day to confirm the results of the Electoral College.

Trump appeared entirely convinced that the insurrection was mostly peaceful and fun-loving, only briefly clarifying to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the rioters who breached the building "shouldn't have done it." He railed against law enforcement for "persecuting" the rioters, arguing that "some of them went in and they're, they're hugging and kissing the police and the guards

You know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in and then they walked in and they walked out." The former president then complained that "nothing happens" to left-wing protestors. "When I look at antifa and what they did to Washington," he rambled, "and what they did to other locations, and the destruction, and frankly the killing and the beating up of people, and nothing happens to them whatsoever? Why aren't they going after antifa?"

He also attempted to frame the rioters as patriots. "They wave American flags," he told Ingraham. "In many cases, they are waving the American flag, and they love our country."

Thus far, over 300 people have been charged in connection with the insurrection in early Jan. Federal authorities claim that at least 100 more may face future charges. According to CBS News, the FBI was sent over 270,000 tips from people across the country. "With their help," said FBI Director Christopher Wray, we've identified hundreds of suspects and opened hundreds of investigations in all but one of our 56 field offices."


I definitely think Ms. Ingraham was told by her bosses not to let Trump discuss the “stolen election” because of the lawsuits.

I guess I got the whole 1/6 thing wrong. It was not a violent insurrection but a modern day reincarnation of Haight Ashbury 1967.(sarcasm)

I was reluctant to post this because the man is not president anymore. While this was reported it was far from being the top story. He still controls one of the two major political parties and a substantial minority of the electorate adores him. While he does not have as much power as before he still has a lot of power. Which is why he felt correctly as as always not only can he get away with saying these things but that his experiences have proven to him that he will be rewarded for it.


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27 Mar 2021, 9:35 am

Censorship is very high since the pandemic started. People are silenced on TV and on online platforms. The mainstream media has a narrative which they have to follow. The ones who pay for the TV networks needs to have their side of the story being told, in order to serve their peronal interest. Trump is being regularly silenced because he doesn't buy into the fear propaganda.

Anyway, the protests are usually peaceful. Tha antifa get in and cause trouble, wearing anything to pretend they are Trump supporters. We even saw some protesters trying to blokc the rioters form doing the mess they did at the Capitol.

The issue these days is that we listen too much to what we're told, as opposed to trusting what we see. People could be served poison, being told it's water, and even if would look odd, they'd drink it without hesitation.



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27 Mar 2021, 9:42 am

Fixxer wrote:
Censorship is very high since the pandemic started. People are silenced on TV and on online platforms. The mainstream media has a narrative which they have to follow. The ones who pay for the TV networks needs to have their side of the story being told, in order to serve their peronal interest. Trump is being regularly silenced because he doesn't buy into the fear propaganda.

Anyway, the protests are usually peaceful. Tha antifa get in and cause trouble, wearing anything to pretend they are Trump supporters. We even saw some protesters trying to blokc the rioters form doing the mess they did at the Capitol.

The issue these days is that we listen too much to what we're told, as opposed to trusting what we see. People could be served poison, being told it's water, and even if would look odd, they'd drink it without hesitation.


The insurrectionists were very clear about their affiliation with Trump and the various far-right groups that support Trump.

Vomiting up disinformation trying to shift responsibility to ANTIFA won't actually change who actually committed the crimes and claimed responsibility. There's a reason everyone who will face trial isn't affiliated with ANTIFA, they're all Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and other associated right-wing terrorists.



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27 Mar 2021, 12:41 pm

Fixxer wrote:
Censorship is very high since the pandemic started...
Calling out a bald-faced, s***-for-brains liar like Trump on a public TV channel is not censorship.



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27 Mar 2021, 6:36 pm

Anyone who's watched the videos of the capitol riot can tell there was nothing peaceful about that mob. Kissing the police? Tell that to the cop those savages tried to crush in the doorway, or the one who died after being sprayed by an obviously toxic substance. And I still can't believe there is anyone so deluded as to seriously believe that it was Antifa that had perpetrated the capitol violence, as every participant identified and arrested breaking and entering have been identified as either Proudboys, Boogs, 3%, and other assorted Neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Not a single member of Antifa or BLM were in attendance.


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