• @0110010001100010
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    1766 months ago

    “He’s trying to injure his opponent,” said Trump. “They’re trying to hurt the opponent because they can’t win fair and square—”

    At this point, the network cut away, announcing an upcoming segment on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

    Hmm…wonder if this has anything to do with the settlements on them airing false election claims.

    • @[email protected]
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      176 months ago

      Hmm…wonder if this has anything to do with the settlements on them airing false election claims.

      I have to assume Fox’s staff have had some pretty pointed training sessions from their corporate lawyers to try and prevent another costly lawsuit loss.

  • @robocall
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    1366 months ago

    Fox doesn’t want to have to state the fact that the election wasn’t stolen in contradiction to Trump, so they rather cut away before he says it.

    • @APassenger
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      156 months ago

      But who would sue them for this? They aren’t blaming devices or companies here. They’re blaming Biden, DOJ, the system and anything else in the government they can.

      • @[email protected]
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        366 months ago

        I imagine that leading up to the election, they don’t want to show a pattern of unsubstantiated false election claims, since that can be used as evidence if later there is a claim by a host or guest which names a company directly that can be used in a lawsuit.

        If such a lawsuit were to happen, they can point to this instance and claim that they tried their hardest to stop the unsubstantiated claims (even cutting off the former president), and it’s not a systemic issue in the network.

      • MxM111
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        96 months ago

        Have not them been successfully sued in the past for propagation of lies about election?

        • Bakkoda
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          86 months ago

          They spent millions in the past establishing that they are entertainment not news and thus cannot be held accountable or some such shit.

        • @APassenger
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          66 months ago

          Where they slandered voting machine companies? Yes.

          That’s not what they’re doing now. At least, not yet.

          This time they’ll blame a corrupt government.

          • @jaybone
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            26 months ago

            Does the corrupt government alter vote counts? Or how does that work?

            • @APassenger
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              36 months ago

              It works by allowing undocumented workers to vote by mail as often as they’d like.

              /s

    • @jeffwOPM
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      346 months ago

      You know you’re a super whiny baby when Fox has to cut you off

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        136 months ago

        You should get an award if Newsmax has to cut you off. I imagine it could be a medal made out of coal smeared with shit.

        • @jeffwOPM
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          126 months ago

          If Newsmax has to cut you off, you should just go to jail because you probably did something fucking insane

          • @[email protected]
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            46 months ago

            Nah, we’ve seen first-hand that doing something fucking insane won’t necessarily land you in jail, especially if you’re a conservative.

    • FenrirIII
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      146 months ago

      And his followers think he’s a strong man.

  • Optional
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    476 months ago

    The last few days of the trial saw a huge explosion of drama.

    At the beginning of the week, Trump defense counsel Todd Blanche got the former president’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen, a star witness for the prosecution, to admit he stole money from the Trump Organization, to attempt to cast doubt on the idea Trump knew all the financial decisions Cohen made on his behalf with hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Things derailed for the defense, however, when they called Cohen’s former legal adviser Robert Costello to the stand, who proceeded to antagonize the judge and admit under cross-examination that he was manipulating Cohen to Trump’s benefit.

    Heh heh heh

    • mad_asshatter
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      166 months ago

      There are 2 lawyers on the jury. If any of the other jurors were too stupid to know why the courtroom was cleared, I’m sure it was well-explained to them.

        • @[email protected]
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          156 months ago

          Clearing the courtroom is how the Judge gets to have a 1-on-1 conversation that starts with “Listen here, you little shit …”

        • @Dkarma
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          76 months ago

          Sure. Trumps witness is a complete idiot

      • @[email protected]
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        56 months ago

        You’d think, as a lawyer himself, that Costello would know better than pissing off the judge.

        I guess he’s just another in the long history of Trump hiring the worst lawyers.

  • @elfin8er
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    26 months ago

    It’s always projection.