Fox Plays Lame Whataboutism Game To Defend Trump's Latest Threat

We all know that Fox is going to defend Trump and lie for him no matter how many crimes he commits, because that's what the right wing propaganda network that should not be called a "news" channel does. On this Saturday's Fox & Friends, they reacted to Trump's latest threatening post on "Truth Social" in all caps, "IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!," which, as we discussed here, has already been met with a swift response from Special Counsel Jack Smith's office by pretending it wasn't a threat and then lying about an appearance on MSNBC by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Since they can't actually defend the indefensible, they have to resort to, one, ignoring everything Trump has actually don, the events of January 6th that he provoked and the fact that he tried to overturn the election, and two, serving up constant distractions where they pretend Democrats are just as bad as Trump and Republicans.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: It's getting silly. So he posts “If you come after me, I'm coming after you.”

HEGSETH: Well, they'd love to give him a gag order to, if they could. This is a protective order saying materials pertinent to the case can can't be released. If they could, they'd shut him up completely, which is the entire point.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Exactly.

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