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  1. Chuck Darwin @[email protected] ·

    ‘Political germ warfare’: rightwing media fervently defend Trump

    In America’s rightwing media ecosystem it was a largely united front. News outlets repeatedly pressed the idea that Trump’s #free #speech was being criminalized: that the former president had done nothing more than talk about the election being stolen.

    The effort, perhaps deliberately, ignored prosecutors’ allegations that Trump had #convened #false slates of #electors and attempted to #block the #certification of the election on January 6.

    “Legal warfare. If this was political, this would be, like, a political war crime. This is overkill. This is political germ warfare. These are political war crimes. It’s an atrocity. It’s, like, not just dropping one atomic bomb, you drop 15 dozen.”

    Those claims were made on Fox News’s The Five show, which Jesse Watters co-hosts. By the time he got to his 8pm show, he hadn’t calmed down

    I agree with his characterization -- but he mistook the culprit

    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a

    #free #speech #convened #false #electors #block