Pretending Donald Trump doesn’t exist is Fox News’ current strategy. Does anyone really think that will work?
. On Tuesday night, apropos of nothing in particular, two of the network’s marquee prime-time hosts, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, retreated to their safe space, devoting long opening segments to bashing President Biden. Hannity banged on about Biden’s friendship, decades ago, with the long-dead Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, who had been a racist Klan member as a young man before renouncing the group.
-19 may in fact have originated in a Chinese lab. This last item, according to Carlson, was both major news and complete vindication—for him. Anyone who did not believe in this theory, Carlson said, was “complicit in the greatest crime in history.”, for years the hero of their nightly shows and even now the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, was barely acknowledged.
What I found most notable about the lawsuit’s disclosures is what they said about Fox executives’ fear of their own audience—and unabashed willingness to lie to that audience if that is what it took to keep their loyalty. The Dominion filing confirmed that in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Murdoch had finally decided to abandon Trump. “We want to make Trump a non person,” the tycoon e-mailed a former Fox executive, two days after the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News is not merely a historical exercise in accountability. That’s because Trump remains the Republican front-runner for 2024. What will happen if he runs and wins the Republican nomination without Fox’s imprimatur? Will the network once again fall in line, as it did in 2016, cheerleading for a G.O.P.
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