Opinion: Fox News spins desperately to shield lawless president from accountability
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 5 at 9:43 AM Now that President Trump is heading into a new period of intensified scrutiny from congressional Democrats, even as the special counsel’s investigation approaches its climax, Trump’s political health — and, possibly, his survival as well — depends more than ever on the massive propaganda apparatus that is busily toiling away on his behalf.
This is going to get quite hairy in coming days. Watch this segment that Trump tweeted out hours ago:— Donald J. Trump March 5, 2019 The sheer Orwellian up-is-downism here is remarkable. Lou Dobbs claimed Democrats are engaged in a “search for a crime” and are “following the lead of Robert Mueller and the radical Dem corruption of both the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Trump approvingly quoted Rep. Devin Nunes on Fox making a similar point. And Matthew Gertz notes that on “Fox & Friends,” there was even discussion that witnesses should decline to cooperate with Democrats for this same reason.
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