The jury might still be deliberating, but Donald Trump’s media allies have already delivered a verdict to their audiences.
Throughout the duration of the Manhattan hush-money trial, Fox News and the rest of MAGA Media have set the stage to absolve Trump in the historic case. Day after day, week after week, popular personalities such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Steve Bannon have lampooned the judicial system, portraying Trump as an innocent victim of political persecution.
Inside this alternate media universe, the actual facts of the case never penetrate the bubble that shields its audiences from detrimental developments for Trump. Instead, alternate dishonest storylines are disseminated as the gospel truth.
Not only is Trump entirely innocent of any and allwrongdoing in the MAGA Media world, but President Joe Biden is guilty of nefariously weaponizing government to wage “lawfare” on his political opponent. Audiences are told that Biden cannot win a fair fight with Trump, so he has resorted to illegal “election interference” by rigging the judicial system against Trump.
Everybody knows Faux is bullshit…
But it’s real frustrating everyone forgot the multi-billionaire who bought CNN explicitly said he was doing it to make it like Faux…
And man, I don’t think I give that piece of shit enough credit when I’m trying to figure out why “moderates” are acting more and more like trumpets.
If you’re still getting your news from CNN, it’s designed to make you just as rage addicted as the people who never turn off Faux. That’s why they keep telling you what Faux is saying, and Faux is always talking about CNN.
It’s just a slow boil so you don’t see it happening.
But you’re gonna get there eventually.
“Fox News knowingly lies to its viewers to undermine the legal system in the hopes that people will vote for that criminal orange cunt.” FTFY
Edit: “Fox News knowingly lies to its viewers to undermine the legal system in the hopes that people will vote for that convicted felon orange cunt.”
They’ve been implying this throughout the whole trial. It’s unreal that they would state this as fact. Either this should fall under the FCC’s definition of broadcast news distortion, or they should update their definition.
They don’t have to because they aren’t legally a news network. They are legally Fox Entertainment. There was a whole lawsuit about that.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you’re wrong.
First, the regulation applies only to the broadcast medium, which means that the FCC has no power to enforce it against cable news networks
Fox News isn’t broadcast, so the FCC doesn’t have purview to regulate it.
That’s false. Fox News is available as a television network over VHF, as well as an AM radio station. They are regulated by the FCC. I’ve received responses to my reports to the FCC in the past.
https://www.fox10tv.com/page/a-note-for-our-viewers-who-watch-with-an-antenna/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_over-the-air_television_networks
I’ve been aware. I actively report deliberately false information, and am encouraging others to do so as well. Opinions are not a breach of FCC regulations. These claims appear to have been stated as facts.
So have I, guilty on 1 or more counts, will be sentenced to serve multiple 4 year terms concurrently, then spend a decade challeging and appealing the ruling and the sentencing.
All it takes is a single juror to insist not guilty on all charges and trump walks.
Realistically the result was determined at jury selection, and we’ve just been waiting this whole time to hear the result.
A delay doesn’t mean that’s happening tho. With so many charges it could just be one person thinks 31/32 guilty and the other 11 32/32 guilty.
We just gotta wait.
But if a single trumpet made it in the jury, none of this mattered
Not quite… There were only 2 states that could convict without a unanimous jury and New York wasn’t one of them.
What the judge said was that there are 3 different ways you can convict, but the jury doesn’t have to be unanimous on any of the three.
So if 7 jurors decide option 1 makes him guilty, and 3 jurors like option 2 better, and 2 go for option 3, that’s still a unanimous vote for guilty. They just disagree on how they got there.
Explanation here:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-trial-jury-unanimous-verdict-679053515836
So this was from a live-stream last night: https://www.youtube.com/live/Wr9HHQYyKeg?si=PtXqucMtls3BJR8C&t=1920
It seems like the jury is taking the process at least fairly seriously, and that the “We the jury” line, makes a clear statement that they themselves see themselves as “on the same team”.
If guilty, whats your over-under on # of counts? I think if I’m the defense, this gives me extreme pause. I think Trumps out was getting at least one renegade juror who intended to hang the whole thing. The note implies to me that this isn’t the case.
It really sucks that their viewership is so stupid that they think Biden has any influence whatsoever on a state-level trial.