Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night appeared to credulously accept one-time Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s excuses for why she was unable to publicly reveal the so-called evidence she claims would show widespread election fraud. Earlier this month, Powell came under fire from Fox News star Tucker Carlson for failing to provide any proof to back her outlandish claims of a nefarious international plot to […]
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Trump campaign attorney Joe diGenova implicitly called for former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs to be executed on Monday for having the temerity to say the 2020 election was the “most secure in United States history.” DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney who is now a member of President Trump’s “elite strike force” looking to overthrow President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, appeared […]
President Donald Trump engaged in what could best be described as a lengthy airing of grievances on Sunday morning, venting to sycophantic Fox News host Maria Bartiromo during his first post-election television interview while baselessly suggesting his own FBI and Department of Justice were “involved” with a “rigged” election against him. Since decisively losing the election to President-elect Joe Biden earlier this month, the president has […]
Bill Weir has a stark warning to anyone who thinks there is hope of ever turning back the clock on climate change. “Goldilocks is dead,” the globe-trotting journalist told The Daily Beast in an interview about his new role as CNN’s chief climate correspondent. Weir, who joined CNN in 2013 after spending a decade as an anchor and reporter for ABC News, is perhaps most well-known […]
Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs is still holding out hope that President Donald Trump will remain in the White House come Jan. 21 and Sidney Powell will help make it happen, even though the Trump legal team has disavowed Powell and the Trump administration has already begun the transition process. Interviewing Powell on Tuesday’s broadcast of his eponymous program, Dobbs first described the former federal […]
Fox News host Laura Ingraham kicked off Monday night’s program by delivering the harsh reality to her viewers that President Donald Trump will not remain Commander in Chief, letting them know she’d be peddling them a “false reality” if she claimed the Supreme Court would deliver a victory for Trump. Acknowledging that the president and his administration have finally allowed the formal transition process to take […]
Trump-supporting Fox News contributor Byron York spoke rather bluntly Monday night about President Donald Trump’s dwindling legal efforts to overturn his election loss, pointing out that Trump’s legal team had a “disastrous weekend” and the legal challenges are clearly “winding down.” Earlier in the day, General Services Administrator Emily Murphy finally acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” and began the formal transition process to […]
Rush Limbaugh fully reversed course on Monday, trashing the Trump legal team’s unhinged press conference detailing baseless election-fraud conspiracies just days after praising attorney Sidney Powell—whom the Trump team has since disavowed—for dropping “bombs all over the place.” Over the weekend, after Powell claimed millions of votes were stolen from President Donald Trump by corrupted software, Powell gave an off-the-rails interview to Newsmax TV in which […]
Over the weekend, social media was abuzz with the realization that disgraced political pundit Mark Halperin is now an on-air contributor for fledgling right-wing network Newsmax, which has been making a recent play for disgruntled Trump supporters angry with Fox News. As The Daily Beast reported last month, Halperin, who became persona non grata in mainstream media after his history of alleged, widespread sexual misconduct was […]
As President Donald Trump’s attempts to overthrow President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory continue to get thrown out of court, a Republican congressman in one of the states Trump is trying to subvert the will of the voters is telling him “it’s over.” Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who has called Michigan Republicans’ attempt to pass legislation to overturn the state’s election results a “dead end,” appeared on […]
Longtime Trump supporter Chris Christie said it was finally time for President Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election results to end, calling out the president’s legal team as a “national embarrassment” for making outlandish and baseless claim of widespread voter fraud without presenting any evidence. In recent days, the president’s attorneys—plucked from right-wing media—have centered their strategy to flip the election to Trump by laying […]
In a matter of a few minutes, Team Trump’s fantasy of a Hail Mary election reversal in Michigan fell apart in spectacular fashion. Still refusing to accept the results of an election he lost two weeks ago, President Donald Trump has rested his negligible hopes for a second term on a series of long-shot legal challenges based on his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, recounts, […]
The View’s Joy Behar wondered aloud on Tuesday morning whether Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) allegedly pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to find a way to toss out legal ballots because President Donald Trump “has something” on the South Carolina lawmaker. As part of a concerted effort to reverse the president’s election loss, Trump has touted baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in Georgia while Republican lawmakers […]
Fox News weekend anchor Eric Shawn on Sunday delivered a robust fact-checking of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Shawn’s debunking came just hours after Trump-boosting Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo devoted the bulk of her show to promoting the president’s latest conspiracy theory about computer software stealing votes from him. While the president has essentially declared war against Fox News for being […]
CNN anchor Jake Tapper tore into the flailing legal strategy implemented by Donald Trump as he attempts to reverse the election he clearly lost, calling the effort “embarrassing” on Sunday while describing the president’s legal team as the “gang that couldn’t sue straight.” While Trump has repeatedly and baselessly alleged that President-elect Joe Biden stole the election from him via widespread election fraud, the increasingly desperate […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, revealed on Sunday morning that President Donald Trump hasn’t attended a White House coronavirus task force meeting in “several months,” adding that “it would be better” if he could start working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on the public health response to the pandemic. During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Fauci expressed cautious […]
Even the host of Fox & Friends is saying President Donald Trump’s latest conspiracy theory about widespread voter fraud is false. During Friday morning’s broadcast of the president’s favorite morning show, co-host Steve Doocy fact-checked Jonathan Turley after the Fox contributor baselessly alleged that the software system from Dominion voting machines had switched “thousands of votes” from Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. The false claim has […]
After a tumultuous year at Fox News that included the network’s own “Brain Room” warning hosts and anchors not to trust his “disinformation,” pro-Trump columnist John Solomon is no longer a paid contributor with the network. A Fox News spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast that Solomon is no longer affiliated with the conservative cable outlet. Solomon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. […]
Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night equated President-elect Joe Biden fielding congratulatory calls from world leaders after his election victory to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn discussing sanctions with Russian leaders during the Trump transition. In recent days, Republicans and Trump allies have taken issue with Biden speaking to foreign leaders following his victory over President Donald Trump last week. Specifically, they have […]
Former Trump acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker baselessly peddled a conspiracy on Wednesday that “thousands of dead voters” in Nevada voted in this past election, a false claim that Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner did not push back on or refute. With President Donald Trump continuing to push forward with his long-shot legal challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s clear-cut victory, Whitaker was asked by Faulkner on […]
Fox News host Laura Ingraham appeared to get slightly annoyed with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday night after he once again hawked his campaign website on the cable news network, telling him it was “enough” and that his act was “like a used car salesman after a while.” During the run-up to Graham’s high-profile race against Democratic candidate Jaime Harrison, the senator became somewhat infamous […]
Fox News anchor Julie Banderas aggressively rebuked Tim Murtaugh on Tuesday when the Trump campaign communications director falsely claimed Democrats moved Election Day in Pennsylvania, eventually shutting him down while taking time to underscore the facts to Fox viewers. Since news networks and outlets—including Fox News—have called the 2020 presidential election for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the Trump-boosting network’s news anchors and legal analysts have pushed […]
President Donald Trump’s favorite network has spent the weekend trying to telegraph one simple message to him: The party’s over. After days of anticipation, former Vice President Joe Biden was finally declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election when news outlets, including Fox News, felt comfortable enough with Biden’s lead in tipping-point state Pennsylvania to call it for him, pushing the Democratic nominee over the […]
House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) lashed out at progressives on Sunday morning, blaming “defund the police” rhetoric from social justice activists for costing Democrats races in the Senate and House. While former Vice President Joe Biden was able to defeat President Donald Trump, Democrats underperformed in the congressional races, losing at least a half-dozen House seats they expected to gain and falling likely short […]
Stridently pro-Trump cable news network Newsmax TV went out of its way to refuse to call the 2020 presidential election for former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday after multiple news outlets projected Biden would win Pennsylvania, pushing him over the needed 270 electoral votes. After airing the Trump campaign’s Saturday morning press conference in Philadelphia which featured Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani making baseless allegations about […]
Fox News anchor Eric Shawn fact-checked the Trump campaign’s repeated claims that poll watchers have been denied access to ballot counting sites in Pennsylvania and other states, pointing out on Friday that it’s “not true” that the campaign’s representatives haven’t been able to observe the process. With Vice President Joe Biden on the cusp of clinching the election as he holds leads in several states that […]
CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Friday morning made a direct appeal to Fox News and its ownership to make it “very clear” to its viewers that there are no signs of widespread voter fraud as former Vice President Joe Biden sits on the cusp of winning the presidency. The conservative cable network should put “country above their profits,” the CNN star said. After a tense few […]
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich seemingly demanded on Thursday night that Attorney General Bill Barr use federal agents to arrest election workers in Pennsylvania and that election results in the state should be tossed. With former Vice President Joe Biden getting closer to an electoral victory as mail-in votes in Pennsylvania continue to break heavily for him, President Donald Trump threw a televised tantrum […]
The Trump campaign just can’t seem to get its messaging straight on whether it wants to actually stop vote counting or not as President Donald Trump’s chances of victory hang precariously in the balance. Over the past few days, the president’s surrogates and advisers have been all over the map while trying to explain the Team Trump strategy when it comes to battleground states counting mail-in […]
CNN anchor Don Lemon openly questioned his network on Tuesday for airing President Donald Trump’s early afternoon remarks live, saying he felt like he was “not sure if we should be running this propaganda” as Americans were still casting their ballots. Hours ahead of polls closing on Election Day, the president visited his Virginia campaign headquarters, delivering a short speech and briefly addressing reporters. Sounding somewhat […]
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly pressed Trump campaign advisor Jason Miller on Sunday morning over President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that doctors “get more money” from coronavirus deaths, prompting Miller to back the president’s claims by citing “independent things pointing to that.” Continuing to hammer away at his closing argument that the country is “rounding the corner” on the pandemic despite record-setting daily infections, Trump […]
The hosts of The View on Thursday expressed their extreme dissatisfaction with Miles Taylor, who revealed on Wednesday that he was the Trump administration official who anonymously authored a scathing anti-Trump New York Times op-ed and subsequent book, calling the current CNN pundit an “opportunist” who is “full of it.” Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, began speaking out publicly against President […]
Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley faced a tough grilling by CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday morning, touching upon the White House claim that President Donald Trump has already ended the coronavirus pandemic. In response, Gidley squirmed, claiming he didn’t “write the document” and didn’t want to “quibble over semantics.” Despite the United States seeing a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations as the country experiences record-high daily […]