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Weepy Lindsey Graham Begs Fox Viewers To Give Money To Trump’s Legal Defense Fund

If you see the name of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) trending on social media this morning, it’s because he made a complete jackass of himself during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show Thursday evening.

Graham was discussing the indictment of disgraced ex-president Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury with the Fox News host when he got all weepy and started begging viewers to send cash to the failed one-term, twice-impeached former president for his legal defense.

His eyes red as if he’d been crying and at times slurring his words, Graham whined:

“They’re trying to destroy Donald Trump because they fear him at the ballot box. To the conservatives out there, make sure you vote if you got friends, make sure they vote. If you don’t have any friends, go make some friends but you need to help this man, Donald J. Trump. They’re trying to drain him dry; he’s spent more money on lawyers than most spend on campaigns. They’re trying to bleed him dry.

Donaldjtrump.com — go tonight, give the president some money to fight this bullshit. This is going to destroy America”

 

Graham’s plea was mocked by “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough Friday morning on MSNBC:

“I’ve got to say, that Lindsey Graham moment? He’s tearing up. Lindsey knows what a bad man Donald Trump is. Lindsey is the one who said, ‘if we make him our nominee, he’ll destroy the Republican party and we deserve it.'”

Scarborough added:

“Lindsey almost crying there — that reminded me of Oral Roberts climbing up into his tower in the ’80s, saying, ‘Give me $3 million or I’m not coming down from this tower.'”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtheK2hbN4c

Graham also got thoroughly mocked on Twitter.

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WATCH: Fox Report On Nashville Shooting Interrupted By Woman Making Plea For Gun Safety Laws

A live Fox News report on a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, was hijacked by a woman who recently survived a shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, and demanded that the country pass new gun safety laws.

The woman, identified as Ashley Beasley, saw the live report being carried by Fox and stepped toward the camera.

“Aren’t you guys tired of covering this?” she asked. “I’ve been lobbying in D.C. since we survived a mass shooting in July.”

Beasley added:

“How is this still happening? How are our children still dying and why are we failing them? Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens — it has overtaken cars! Assault weapons are contributing to the border crisis — we are arming cartels with our guns and our loose gun laws! And these mass shootings will continue to happen until our lawmakers step up and pass gun safety legislation!”

The questions need to be asked until we get answers. Why is this still happening? What will it take for us to change? How many innocent children have to die before we do something tangible that will make a difference?

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WATCH Fed Chairman Powell Dress Down A Fox Reporter For His BS Claims About Inflation

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set a reporter from Fox Business straight on the basics of the U.S. economy and inflation Wednesday during a press conference.

During the press conference, reporter Edward Lawrence suggested that government spending was partially responsible for inflation, remarking:

“Inflation has been rather sticky, so do you need help from the fiscal side to get inflation down faster?” 

Powell replied:

“We don’t give advice to the fiscal authorities, and we assume that we take fiscal policy as it comes to our front door, stick it in our model along with a million other things, and we have responsibility for price stability. And we will get inflation down to 2% in time.”

Lawrence tried again to link spending to inflation:

“But the spending that’s happened is working against what you are doing, right? So it’s prolonging inflation?”

That led Powell to dress down Edwards:

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Fox Host Slams House Republicans For Trying To ‘Intimidate’ Manhattan DA With Threats

Now that it seems almost certain that failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump will indeed be indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sometime this week, Republicans in the House of Representatives are trying to harass and threaten Bragg, demanding that he appear before various committees to explain why he’s bringing charges against the failed ex-president.

For example, on Monday, ABC News reports, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) insisted that Bragg show up on Capitol Hill and bring thousands of documents with him. Sending him a letter that read, in part:

“You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office.”

And Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) also attacked Bragg, telling reporters, “What we see before us is a political game being played by a local … Look this isn’t New York City, this is just a Manhattan, this is just a borough DA. Okay?”

Intimidation and attempting to demean a duly elected DA. And yet the GOP wants to be known as the party of “law and order”? Sure, as long as the law doesn’t apply to any Republicans.

All of this led Fox News host Neil Cavuto to excoriate House Republicans on his Tuesday show.

Speaking with former federal prosecutor Kevin O’Brien, Cavuto noted:

“I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion whether he’s overreaching his legal hand. But in this case here, if you’re talking about a guy who you say is weaponizing and going way beyond the legal areas that he should as a local prosecutor, then surely the House risks doing the same if it tries to drag him before them to argue the point and essentially to intimidate him.”

O’Brien agreed:

“Right, as my mother used to say, two wrongs don’t make a right. And this certainly does escalate the situation in ways that aren’t helpful.”

Cavuto added:

“I don’t have an axe to grind in all this, Kevin. But I do wonder if the House risks looking like it’s doing the bidding of Donald Trump by creating an even bigger circus that they hope to avoid when they talk about Alvin Bragg’s circus.

“And that this perpetuates the notion that whatever Donald Trump wants, he gets. And Republicans will do his bidding.”

 

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Second, ‘More Dangerous’ Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox Given Green Light To Proceed

As Fox News faces daily revelations from the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, yet another defamation suit against has been given the go ahead by a court, and this one is considered to be even more dangerous than the Dominion case.

The Guardian reports on the second lawsuit, which has been filed by Smartmatic and is seeking $2.7 billion in damages.

Smartmatic claims that more than 100 false statements were broadcast by Fox News hosts and guests. Smartmatic was falsely said to have been involved in 2020 election counts in six battleground states – in fact, it was present only at the count in Los Angeles county.

Fox broadcast that Smartmatic shared its technology with Dominion, when in fact the two companies had no communication and regarded each other as rivals. Smartmatic was in cahoots with foreign governments in a conspiracy to rig the vote for Biden, Giuliani said on Bartiromo’s show – a claim that the company disputes as false and defamatory.

Fox also described Smartmatic as having been founded in Venezuela at the behest of corrupt dictators. In fact, it was founded by Antonio Mugica and Roger Piñate in 2000 in Boca Raton, Florida, in the wake of the “hanging chad” fiasco, with the aim of using technology to restore people’s faith in election results.

Fox suggested in a statement that the Smartmatic lawsuit cannot stand up to First Amendment scrutiny:

“Freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected, in addition to the damages claims being outrageous, unsupported and not rooted in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs. There is nothing more newsworthy than covering the president of the US and his lawyers making allegations.”

But the one-two punch of Dominion and Smartmatic would seem to be Fox’s worst nightmare made reality, and the First Amendment doesn’t protect against blatant lies such as the ones Fox is accused of broadcasting.