Trump's Election Distrust Campaign Rattles Even Fox News
esmaspäev, 20. juuli 2026
Donald Trump's recent prime-time speech on elections, where he raged at news organizations for refusing to carry him live, has caused concern even within Fox News. His Homeland Security secretary also smeared the media, indicating Trump's deepening fury.
It is believed that Trump expects news organizations to help him amplify his lies about elections to sow distrust in them. Sowing this distrust is key to his apparent effort to rig the midterms.
Interestingly, Fox News explicitly declined to endorse his claims and refrained from carrying his DHS secretary. According to Fox sources, insiders were dismayed by Trump's obsession with elections, viewing it as bad politics for the GOP and potentially detrimental to business given post-2020 litigation against Fox.
Harvard political scientist Ryan Enos explains that Trump is telegraphing an authoritarian plot to corrupt the elections, with assaults on the media being central to this strategy.
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