Warrior Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 3 hours ago, DBP66 said: Victor is a 🤡...he's a regular on the Laura Ingraham show. He tries to sound smart...but it doesn't work....😉 Born Victor Davis Hanson September 5, 1953 (age 69)Fowler, California, U.S. Occupation Historian, professor, author Education University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)Stanford University (PhD) Subjects Military history, ancient warfare, ancient agrarianism, classics, politics Notable awards National Humanities Medal(2007) 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTerrapin Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 7 minutes ago, Warrior said: Born Victor Davis Hanson September 5, 1953 (age 69)Fowler, California, U.S. Occupation Historian, professor, author Education University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)Stanford University (PhD) Subjects Military history, ancient warfare, ancient agrarianism, classics, politics Notable awards National Humanities Medal(2007) 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Warrior said: Born Victor Davis Hanson September 5, 1953 (age 69)Fowler, California, U.S. Occupation Historian, professor, author Education University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)Stanford University (PhD) Subjects Military history, ancient warfare, ancient agrarianism, classics, politics Notable awards National Humanities Medal(2007) This is just another example of why Dumbass66 is one of the biggest imbeciles walking our planet. Belittling VDH? 🤡🤣 Hanson, a Protestant[citation needed] who is of Swedish and Welsh descent, grew up on his grandfather's raisin farm outside Selma, California in the San Joaquin Valley, and has worked there most of his life. His mother, Pauline Davis Hanson, was a lawyer and a California superior court and state appeals court justice, his father was a farmer, educator and junior college administrator. Along with his older brother Nels Hanson, a writer, and fraternal twin Alfred Hanson, a farmer and biologist, Hanson attended public schools and graduated from Selma High School. Hanson received his B.A. with highest honors in classics and general college honors, from Cowell College, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1975[1] and his PhD in classics from Stanford University in 1980.[2] He won the Raphael Demos scholarship at the College Year in Athens (1973–74) and was a regular member of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1978–79. His academic career ran from 1985, when he was hired at California State University, Fresno to launch a classical studies program, to 2004, when he took early retirement in order to focus on his political writing and popular history.[3] In 1991, Hanson was awarded American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually to the nation's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin. He was named distinguished alumnus of the year for 2006 at University of California, Santa Cruz.[4] He has been a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University in California (1991–92), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992–93), awarded an Alexander Onassis traveling fellowship to Greece (1999), as well as Nimitz Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, (2006) and held the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (2002–03). After taking early retirement from CSU Fresno in 2004, Hanson has held a series of positions in ideologically-oriented institutions and private foundations. He was appointed Fellow in California Studies at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank in California, in 2002.[5] Hanson was appointed Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, another conservative think-tank in California. He was often the William Simon visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, a private Christian institution in California (2009–15), and was awarded in 2015 an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the graduate school at Pepperdine. He gave the Wriston Lecture in 2004 for the Manhattan Institute whose mission is to 'develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility'. He has been a board member of the Bradley Foundation since 2015, and served on the HF Guggenheim Foundation board for over a decade.[citation needed] Since 2004, Hanson has written a weekly column syndicated by Tribune Content Agency,[6] as well as a weekly column for National Review Online since 2001, and has not missed a weekly column for either venue since he began. He has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, American Heritage, and The New Criterion, among other publications. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal (2007) by President George W. Bush, as well as the Eric Breindel Prize for opinion journalism (2002), and the William F. Buckley Prize (2015). Hanson was awarded the Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award at its annual Churchill Dinner, and the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2008. VDH's flatulence is probably more intelligent and erudite than Dumbass66 has ever dreamed of being. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 2 hours ago, concha said: This is just another example of why Dumbass66 is one of the biggest imbeciles walking our planet. Belittling VDH? 🤡🤣 Hanson, a Protestant[citation needed] who is of Swedish and Welsh descent, grew up on his grandfather's raisin farm outside Selma, California in the San Joaquin Valley, and has worked there most of his life. His mother, Pauline Davis Hanson, was a lawyer and a California superior court and state appeals court justice, his father was a farmer, educator and junior college administrator. Along with his older brother Nels Hanson, a writer, and fraternal twin Alfred Hanson, a farmer and biologist, Hanson attended public schools and graduated from Selma High School. Hanson received his B.A. with highest honors in classics and general college honors, from Cowell College, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1975[1] and his PhD in classics from Stanford University in 1980.[2] He won the Raphael Demos scholarship at the College Year in Athens (1973–74) and was a regular member of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1978–79. His academic career ran from 1985, when he was hired at California State University, Fresno to launch a classical studies program, to 2004, when he took early retirement in order to focus on his political writing and popular history.[3] In 1991, Hanson was awarded American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually to the nation's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin. He was named distinguished alumnus of the year for 2006 at University of California, Santa Cruz.[4] He has been a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University in California (1991–92), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992–93), awarded an Alexander Onassis traveling fellowship to Greece (1999), as well as Nimitz Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, (2006) and held the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (2002–03). After taking early retirement from CSU Fresno in 2004, Hanson has held a series of positions in ideologically-oriented institutions and private foundations. He was appointed Fellow in California Studies at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank in California, in 2002.[5] Hanson was appointed Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, another conservative think-tank in California. He was often the William Simon visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, a private Christian institution in California (2009–15), and was awarded in 2015 an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the graduate school at Pepperdine. He gave the Wriston Lecture in 2004 for the Manhattan Institute whose mission is to 'develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility'. He has been a board member of the Bradley Foundation since 2015, and served on the HF Guggenheim Foundation board for over a decade.[citation needed] Since 2004, Hanson has written a weekly column syndicated by Tribune Content Agency,[6] as well as a weekly column for National Review Online since 2001, and has not missed a weekly column for either venue since he began. He has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, American Heritage, and The New Criterion, among other publications. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal (2007) by President George W. Bush, as well as the Eric Breindel Prize for opinion journalism (2002), and the William F. Buckley Prize (2015). Hanson was awarded the Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award at its annual Churchill Dinner, and the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2008. VDH's flatulence is probably more intelligent and erudite than Dumbass66 has ever dreamed of being. LOL...and he's a right-wing nut job like you....🤡...🤡.....😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DBP66 Posted February 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 1 hour ago, concha said: I don't know who the bigger clown is here...hummm....the Optometrist who thinks he knows more than Dr. Faucci or you??....that's a tough one....so you don't support Ukraine huh??...I thought you were a Conservative?.....LOL...naaa...you're a Fox news moron...🤡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 Trump tried to call in to Fox News as the Capitol riot unfolded but the network refused to put him on air, new filing claims Alia Shoaib Sat, February 18, 2023 at 6:24 AM EST Former President Donald Trump.Brandon Bell/Getty Images Donald Trump tried to call into Fox News as the Capitol riot unfolded, a court filing claims. Network executives refused to put him on air as they thought it would be "irresponsible." The claims were part of Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against the network. Donald Trump tried to call into Fox News on January 6, 2021, as his supporters stormed the Capitol building, but the network refused to put him on air, according to a new court filing. Network executives believed "it would be irresponsible to put him on the air" and that it "could impact a lot of people in a negative way," the filings notes, citing testimony from Fox Business Network President Lauren Petterson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 Ann Coulter Slams Trump as 'Profoundly Stupid' Story by Anna Commander • Yesterday 4:45 PM Right-wing pundit and commentator Ann Coulter voiced her disapproval of former President Donald Trump once again on Friday, this time calling him "narcissistic" and "profoundly stupid." SALEM, NH - JANUARY 28: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee's Annual Meeting on January 28, 2023 in Salem, New Hampshire. In his first campaign events since announcing his plans to run for president for a third time, the former President will also be speaking today in South Carolina, both early-voting states. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images) This is a split image with Ann Coulter speaking onstage during Politicon 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Politicon) In a video that was posted to Twitter by PatriotTakes on Saturday, Coulter made an appearance on the podcast Timcast IRL where she spoke about the former president. "The one thing I didn't know when I wrote In Trump We Trust is how profoundly stupid he is. I made very clear in the book the only thing he could do; we will forgive him for anything, and I defended him the day after the Access Hollywood *****grabbing tape came out," she said. "...I was petal-to-the-metal defending him. I said we'll forgive him for anything unless you betray us on immigration. Guess what? He did." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 Democrats Score Three Big Election Victories in GOP-Controlled States Story by James Bickerton • Yesterday 8:04 AM Democratic candidates in Republican-dominated states won three important special elections on Tuesday in a sign the party hasn't lost the political prowess that saw it outperform expectations in the November midterms. Jennifer McClellan speaking during a rally for an economic recovery and infrastructure package prioritizing climate, care, jobs, and justice on April 03, 2021 in Williamsburg, Virginia. On Tuesday McClellan was elected to Congress.© Ryan M. Kelly/GETTY In Virginia, Jennifer McClellan defeated Republican Leon Benjamin to represent the state's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. As of 11:48 p.m. ET on Tuesday, McClellan had 74.1 percent of the vote, with 95 percent of the votes having been counted. The contest was called following the death of Donald McEachin, the Democrat who previously held the seat, just weeks after he was reelected to the House in the November midterms. Virginia has a Republican Governor, Glenn Youngkin, with the GOP also enjoying a slight majority in the state's legislature, though the Virginia State Senate is Democrat controlled. Democrats were also successful in New Hampshire where their candidate, incumbent Representative Chuck Grassie, secured reelection to the state House by 568 to 449 for David Walker, his Republican rival. Walker was initially declared the winner in November, but a recount put both candidates at 970 votes, resulting in the special election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner subpoenaed by special counsel investigating efforts to overturn election: Sources Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner subpoenaed by special counsel investigating efforts to overturn election: Sources 1.6k KATHERINE FAULDERS and JOHN SANTUCCI Wed, February 22, 2023 at 4:43 PM EST Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former President Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith, ABC News has learned. The subpoena for the couple is specifically related to the special counsel's probe of Jan. 6 and the activities leading up to that day by the former president and his allies regarding efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources told ABC News. Ivanka Trump and Kushner worked as senior White House advisers to President Trump during his four years in office. PHOTO: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are seen out for a walk, Dec. 10, 2022, in Miami. (Mega/GC Images/Getty Images) A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump and Kushner did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News. News of the subpoena was first reported by The New York Times. Smith was appointed in November to oversee the investigation into Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents after leaving the presidency and his alleged obstruction of the government's efforts to retrieve them, as well as efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election. The appointment of the special counsel was triggered by Trump's announcement in November that he is running for president for a third time, which created a conflict of interest, according to the DOJ special counsel guidelines. Former Vice President Mike Pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel earlier this month, but is expected to fight the subpoena, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader12-0 Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 4 minutes ago, DBP66 said: Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner subpoenaed by special counsel investigating efforts to overturn election: Sources Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner subpoenaed by special counsel investigating efforts to overturn election: Sources 1.6k KATHERINE FAULDERS and JOHN SANTUCCI Wed, February 22, 2023 at 4:43 PM EST Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former President Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith, ABC News has learned. The subpoena for the couple is specifically related to the special counsel's probe of Jan. 6 and the activities leading up to that day by the former president and his allies regarding efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources told ABC News. Ivanka Trump and Kushner worked as senior White House advisers to President Trump during his four years in office. PHOTO: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are seen out for a walk, Dec. 10, 2022, in Miami. (Mega/GC Images/Getty Images) A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump and Kushner did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News. News of the subpoena was first reported by The New York Times. Smith was appointed in November to oversee the investigation into Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents after leaving the presidency and his alleged obstruction of the government's efforts to retrieve them, as well as efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election. The appointment of the special counsel was triggered by Trump's announcement in November that he is running for president for a third time, which created a conflict of interest, according to the DOJ special counsel guidelines. Former Vice President Mike Pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel earlier this month, but is expected to fight the subpoena, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News last week. UH OH! Here we go again! Maybe I shouldn't have said anything! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader12-0 Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 I just knew, that would be the board resurected after the Korean trolls were purged. JUST KNEW IT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 7 minutes ago, Crusader12-0 said: UH OH! Here we go again! Maybe I shouldn't have said anything! LOL...I got a lot of catching up to do!....😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nolebull813 Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 Death, taxes and 66 choking himself while jerking off to Trump 3 things guaranteed in life 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2023 “Targeted for retribution”: Trump’s brag badly backfires as judge orders him to sit for deposition Story by Igor Derysh • 11h ago A federal judge on Thursday ruled that two former FBI officials can depose former President Donald Trump as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit after he bragged about firing them. Donald TrumpPhoto illustration by Salon/Getty Images© Provided by Salon Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two former FBI officials that were part of special counsel Bob Mueller's team before they were targeted by Trump over text messages disparaging his 2016 candidacy, will be allowed to depose Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray for up to two hours as part of their lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled, according to Politico. But Jackson left open the question of whether President Joe Biden will invoke executive privilege over any aspects of Trump's testimony, asking the Justice Department to respond within a month on what Biden plans to do. Jackson, an Obama appointee, also stressed that she has not yet considered all potential objections from Trump and Wray, which "could include arguments by Trump that he has the unilateral right as a former president to assert executive privilege," according to Politico. Strzok and Page argue that they were "illegally targeted for retribution," according to The Washington Post. Strzok, a former top counterintelligence agent, is seeking backpay and reinstatement. Page, a former FBI lawyer, sued the bureau and the DOJ for releasing a trove of her messages that showed she was having an affair with Strzok at the time. Continue reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted February 25, 2023 Report Share Posted February 25, 2023 On 2/23/2023 at 3:32 PM, DBP66 said: hey 66...why do you think all those hours of footage of 1/6 was given to Pucker @ 🦊 ??? could it be because Pucker has emails to his good ole buddy and neighbor, on that laptop you never even thought existed? and how can that be some conspiracy theory....you know...when even snopes agrees LOLOL... 🤡 PS: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-son-college/ 🤡🤡 BTW: apparently yer meme is a lucky broken clock...LOLOL 🤡🤡🤡 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 3 hours ago, Troll said: hey 66...why do you think all those hours of footage of 1/6 was given to Pucker @ 🦊 ??? could it be because Pucker has emails to his good ole buddy and neighbor, on that laptop you never even thought existed? and how can that be some conspiracy theory....you know...when even snopes agrees LOLOL... 🤡 PS: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-son-college/ 🤡🤡 BTW: apparently yer meme is a lucky broken clock...LOLOL 🤡🤡🤡 the meme was referring to Fox news pushing the BIG lie to dopes like you meanwhile they knew along it was all BULLSHIT....they sold their audience a BIG FAT lie...for ratings and money...if there was any question if Fox news is 100% right wing propaganda there isn't one now.......They knowingly lied....for $$....SAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted February 26, 2023 Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 42 minutes ago, DBP66 said: the meme was referring to Fox news pushing the BIG lie to dopes like you meanwhile they knew along it was all BULLSHIT....they sold their audience a BIG FAT lie...for ratings and money...if there was any question if Fox news is 100% right wing propaganda there isn't one now.......They knowingly lied....for $$....SAD. So you think I'm a dope for agreeing with you ??? 🤡 PS: and the left wing news is different just how exactly ??? 🤡🤡 BTW: ...I guess your "split second" is up 🤣,,, tick tock broken clock...🤡🤡🤡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted February 26, 2023 Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 almost forgot... did you even know that Pucker and Hunted were but buddies??? 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warrior Posted February 28, 2023 Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 Trump was right…again. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted February 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 In case you weren't sure if you've been played by Fox news....now you KNOW you have been LIED to....countless times. Rupert Murdoch admits he knew Fox News hosts endorsed false election fraud claims, deposition shows 3k Stephen Battaglio Mon, February 27, 2023 at 5:29 PM EST Lachlan Murdoch, left, and Rupert Murdoch at the U.S. Open in New York in 2018. (Adrian Edwards / GC Images) New court documents show that Rupert Murdoch and his top lieutenants at Fox News were aware that former President Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election were false, but agreed to give them continued coverage in an effort to keep unhappy viewers from fleeing. The stunning revelations based on deposition testimony were in a brief filed Monday in a Delaware state court by Dominion Voting Systems, the latest salvo in the company's $1.6-billion defamation suit against the conservative news network. The testimony by Murdoch and others at the company will add powerful evidence to what many 1st Amendment attorneys have said is among the strongest cases they have seen against a media organization. Dominion needs to prove that Fox News was reckless in knowingly spreading false information to show that the network acted with malice. Fox News has maintained that its coverage and commentary of Trump's false allegations were newsworthy and therefore protected under the 1st Amendment. In his depositions, Murdoch acknowledged that he had the power to keep Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell from appearing on Fox News, where they spread misinformation about election fraud and falsely accused Dominion of using its machines to manipulate votes. But he chose not to exercise that power, even though behind the scenes he and others were aware that Trump's legal team was spreading lies and even questioned their sanity, according to the deposition. When asked as to whether he could have said to Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott and the network's hosts, "stop putting Rudy Giuliani on the air,” Murdoch replied, "I could have. But I didn't." Murdoch acknowledged that he was mindful of antagonizing Trump-supporting Fox News viewers who were angry over the result of the election. Fox News was the first network on election night to call Arizona for Joe Biden. Trump “had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of Fox, so it would have been stupid,” Murdoch said in his testimony. The filing also reveals that Fox Corp. board member Paul Ryan warned the Murdochs “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories,” according to testimony from the former Republican speaker of the House. “We are entering a truly bizarre phase of this where [Trump] has actually convinced himself of this farce and will do more bizarre things to de-legitimize the election," Ryan told the Murdochs. "I see this as a key inflection point for Fox, where the right thing and the smart business thing to do line up nicely.” In a statement, Fox News said Dominion is taking "an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear Fox for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment.” The filing provides an extraordinary glimpse into the operations of Fox News, where network executives intensely debated how to debunk Trump's false claims without agitating viewers, some of whom were flocking to upstart conservative network Newsmax, which was far more sympathetic to the falsehoods. Murdoch's son Lachlan, Fox Corp.'s chief executive, testified that he would lie awake at night worrying about Fox News ratings. On Jan. 5, Murdoch and Scott discussed whether hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham should say some version of “The election is over and Joe Biden won.” Murdoch said he believed those words “would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election was stolen.” Scott told Murdoch that “privately they are all there,” but “we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers.” No statement was made that night, and the next day, Jan. 6, Trump-supporting rioters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the electoral vote count. Dominion filed a motion for summary judgment on Feb. 16 that outlined how Fox News anchors and executives privately dismissed the claims of voter fraud and found no evidence to support them, but continued to give a platform on their programs to Trump lawyers and surrogates who presented wildly false allegations. Fox News anchors and executives privately described Powell and Giuliani as “nuts” and “crazy,” even as they continued to give them airtime. They even criticized their own anchors, including Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, who they believed were influenced by Trump advocates touting conspiracy theories. Those included unfounded claims that Dominion was a key player in a rigged election by manipulating vote counts and suggestions that it was owned and controlled by the Venezuelan government. As the case moves forward, the inner workings at Fox News are being exposed through texts, emails and deposition testimony, presenting a picture of an operation panicked over how Trump supporters in its audience would abandon the network. A hearing on the motions is scheduled for March 21. If the case goes to trial, it would begin in mid-April. Fox News filed a brief Monday in opposition to Dominion that cited deposition testimony by Murdoch that he is not directly involved in making editorial decisions on the network and that Scott was responsible. "I appointed Ms. Scott to the job ... and I delegate everything to her,” Murdoch testified. The brief also said that just because a number of executives and anchors disbelieved Trump's fraud claims does not mean it was defamatory to report on them. "Dominion cannot establish actual malice by relying upon skepticism of persons at Fox News who were not responsible for the allegedly defamatory statements," the brief said. "It is hardly unusual that some people in a newsroom (with the diverse political viewpoints one would expect) will disbelieve the allegations and hope that they ultimately prove false, while others will keep an open mind in hopes that they prove true." In a statement, Dominion said the company "is a strong believer in the 1st Amendment and its protections. As long-settled law makes clear, the 1st Amendment does not shield broadcasters that knowingly or recklessly spread lies.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DBP66 Posted March 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 23 minutes ago, concha said: Did you get that picture from the Fox news files??.....🤡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted March 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 Trump Stiffed Local Cops. Now It’s Coming Back to Bite Him. Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast As Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail—and the size of his MAGA rallies—has ebbed and flowed, one standard operating procedure for the former president has remained constant: Whenever possible, stiff the contractors. For all the “back the blue” merchandise one can buy at a Trump rally, finding an event where the cops actually working it had their overtime covered by the campaign is surprisingly difficult. But there’s a cost for Trump, too; the hefty bill that he tends to leave with local governments means the ex-president may have to search for even smaller, more obscure rally venues for his 2024 campaign. In Sioux City, Iowa, for example, the former president still owes more than $11,000 in unpaid reimbursements to the city police and fire departments from a rally he held there on Nov. 3, 2022. While overtime pay to cops and firemen totaled more than $10,000 on the overall tab, Trump’s Save America PAC also rented several parking lots from the city. They failed to cover those expenses, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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