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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 02:55 PM Aug 2022

I watched a bit of FOX News with Sandra Smith and John Roberts a couple of hours ago...

And they were discussing the affidavit and had Karl Rove on as their guest. Interestingly, Rove did not cut Trump any slack. He gave a good timeline to their viewers of how the NARA had requested the documents and how Trump had rebuffed them. He explained how the office of presidential records kept a file of every document that went to Trump and she gave the file to the NARA and they could tell that the boxes of documents received in January did not include all the files that the former president had access to. He was very clear in his explanation.

Smith and Roberts were also very skeptical of Trump's motives and explanations. Why did he take the files to Mar-a-lago, they repeatedly asked.

I will probably check them out later today to see if anyone else has any doubts about the motives of their former president?

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I watched a bit of FOX News with Sandra Smith and John Roberts a couple of hours ago... (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2022 OP
So is it now time for the GOP to turn on Trump and start promoting DeSantis? Jade Fox Aug 2022 #1
Yup. Sky Jewels Aug 2022 #5
Not only has the Witch Hunt rhetoric died down...... Jade Fox Aug 2022 #10
Courtroom-quality Evidence is hitting Big Lies with a TruthHammer!! Alexander Of Assyria Aug 2022 #21
Afternoon Fox has often been less crazy, JenniferJuniper Aug 2022 #18
Which will be fun to watch. Trump tearing up DeSantis will do me a LOT of good. Bucky Aug 2022 #11
That is encouraging! I went looking for Fox to aee mahina Aug 2022 #2
Well it gets to the point where people who defended him in the past tavernier Aug 2022 #3
The "why did he take them?" question is key. There is no innocent answer. Midnight Writer Aug 2022 #4
Exactly! kentuck Aug 2022 #7
Nah they won't do that durablend Aug 2022 #9
They will just keep on wondering.... crud Aug 2022 #20
Thank you for your service padah513 Aug 2022 #6
Relevant quote: kentuck Aug 2022 #8
Video on this thread. underpants Aug 2022 #12
Thanks! kentuck Aug 2022 #13
Faux News Saves The CRAZY For Prime Time SoCalDavidS Aug 2022 #14
Yep. kentuck Aug 2022 #16
Might have something to do with the billion dollar Beachnutt Aug 2022 #15
Will we soon see DEMOCRAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP chyron ffr Aug 2022 #17
Ha ha. Fox producers are now feverishly taking notes on this. Sky Jewels Aug 2022 #19

Sky Jewels

(7,171 posts)
5. Yup.
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:04 PM
Aug 2022

Some of the Fox bunch started backing away within the last couple months. It is a trickle that will probably turn into a gusher. Notice the "WITCH HUNT!!!" rhetoric from the right has died down considerably since the first few days after the FBI MAL search.

Jade Fox

(10,030 posts)
10. Not only has the Witch Hunt rhetoric died down......
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:19 PM
Aug 2022

so have the "This is Civil War!" threats from the MAGA video game combat veterans in their mom's basement.



JenniferJuniper

(4,515 posts)
18. Afternoon Fox has often been less crazy,
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 04:11 PM
Aug 2022

but behind the scenes the entertainment section is working feverishly on the nightly "news"

Bucky

(54,087 posts)
11. Which will be fun to watch. Trump tearing up DeSantis will do me a LOT of good.
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:25 PM
Aug 2022

Odds of DeSantis getting the nom should be at about 80%. Only the hard Maga zealots aren't aware of his coming "toast" status

mahina

(17,715 posts)
2. That is encouraging! I went looking for Fox to aee
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:00 PM
Aug 2022

But forgot I told spectrum to take them off my tv. Longer expl below.
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Actually I canceled my service, and got new service with them with a different package that included a lesser fee for TV but only 15 channels which is all I ever would need in 1 million years anyway. Before anybody tells me you can’t take it off it turns out that you can.

tavernier

(12,410 posts)
3. Well it gets to the point where people who defended him in the past
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:03 PM
Aug 2022

are suddenly starting to feel quite foolish as each day goes by and new revelations come out. At some point they have to take a common sense approach and then perhaps slowly evolve into turning away from MAGA world.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
7. Exactly!
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:05 PM
Aug 2022

One might think that his followers would be asking him to explain "why" he took the documents to Mar-a-lago?

Why, Donald, why??

durablend

(7,465 posts)
9. Nah they won't do that
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:16 PM
Aug 2022

If anything they're even more convinced whatever is on Hunter Biden's laptop is a moral outrage compared to this.

crud

(627 posts)
20. They will just keep on wondering....
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 04:14 PM
Aug 2022

All day long, every stupid show, every stupid host, every stupid guest... wondering and wondering.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
8. Relevant quote:
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:15 PM
Aug 2022

Sun Tzu said "Know the enemy and know yourself in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."

Beachnutt

(7,349 posts)
15. Might have something to do with the billion dollar
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:41 PM
Aug 2022

lawsuit for lying about the voting machines.
They are all being deposed.

ffr

(22,674 posts)
17. Will we soon see DEMOCRAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP chyron
Fri Aug 26, 2022, 03:47 PM
Aug 2022

at the bottom of Fox News?

It wouldn't be a stretch to consider the GOP taking points being discussed last night. Was it determined that the they MUST throw TFG under the bus in order to save face, look like he's not one of them?

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