Fox Collapses on Air as Trump’s Cover Up Backfires in Their Face

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Speaker 8 State regime media, which calls itself Fox News, was imploding on air this week after the Epstein file. Cover-up is blowing up in Donald Trump's face.

Speaker 8 You know, state regime media needs to be complicit in the cover-up, and you know, they're really not going to talk about the cover-up at all. So, what are they talking about on state regime media?

Speaker 8 Well, they're talking about Pete Budigig's goatee, and they're saying he's trying to look like Chuck Norris. This is this is the kind of gripping stuff that they've got going on at state regime media.

Speaker 8 Here, play this clip right here.

Speaker 12 Of course, Mayor Pete is growing a beard, looking tough, trying to look exactly like Chuck Norris. Will that be effective?

Speaker 8 What else do they have going on on state regime media?

Speaker 8 Well, they bring in this guy, MAGA Republican Congressmember Russell Fry, who says, look, of course Donald Trump is going to change the name of the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center.

Speaker 8 You know how all those libs rip down the monuments. It's like the same thing.
What are you even talking about? Y'all are complicit in the cover-up of a child sex trafficking ring.

Speaker 8 You're not tricking us, but this is what state regime media is doing.

Speaker 6 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 12 So wait a minute, Congressman. Now that they care about landmarks, just how many historical figures did they take down in South Carolina in 2020?

Speaker 14 I mean, a lot. I just find this incredibly rich coming from a party that spray paints monuments, desecrates memorials, tears down statues.
This is really rich.

Speaker 14 President Trump, I mean, the Kennedy Center has been a financial mess for a long time.

Speaker 14 President Trump, they had $250 million in deferred maintenance, but the president raised $130 plus million in private donations. Congress has also acted.

Speaker 14 This reaffirms America and President Trump's commitment to the arts.

Speaker 8 And then as the American people are going into Christmas Eve and Christmas struggling, as we all know that Donald Trump has destroyed the economy.

Speaker 8 We all know that Donald Trump has only helped himself and his oligarch right-wing billionaire friends.

Speaker 8 He wants to have one of his billionaire cabinet members, Howard Luttnick, the commerce secretary, say, you know what? The U.S. economy grew at 4.3%, which means all Americans just got 4.3% richer.

Speaker 8 Did you know that?

Speaker 2 Did you,

Speaker 8 to everybody who's listening and watching, it's like, did you know that, boom, you just got 4.3% richer according to the Trump regime? That's how stupid they think we all are.

Speaker 15 But here's what Howard Luttnick says: here, play this clip: the 4.3 GDP growth beating it by a full point of 3.3. How does that affect our bottom line, our pocketbook issues?

Speaker 17 So, just think of the whole world out there in the third quarter, the United Kingdom grew 0.1%,

Speaker 17 the European Union grew 0.4, and Japan Japan fell 0.6%.

Speaker 17 Fell 0.6%.

Speaker 17 Donald Trump's economy grew. The United States of America, the biggest economy in the world, 4.3%.

Speaker 17 What that means is that Americans overall,

Speaker 17 all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise.
It's a simple way to do it. We've got more jobs, lower energy costs, and lower interest rates coming.
This is the golden age coming.

Speaker 17 4.3% this quarter means Americans on average are making more money, more money in their pocketbooks. That makes for a great Christmas.

Speaker 8 And this was kind of the theme that we saw on state regime media.

Speaker 8 You had this guy bring on Stephen Miller.

Speaker 8 I'm not even going to show the clip that much of like what Miller actually said, but let me just show you the wind up of how they talk about things in state regime media.

Speaker 8 They're like, this is how they talk about it on Fox. They go, everybody knows the economy is doing great.
Inflation is down. Energy costs are down.
The American people are doing really good.

Speaker 8 But here's the problem. They go, they go, the fake news and the fake media is making people feel really sad.

Speaker 8 So, Stephen Miller, with that as background, what can you do to explain to the American people that they're actually doing great? And it's the fake media that's deceiving them.

Speaker 8 And then Stephen Miller is like, well, of course, Americans have never been better and more prosperous right now.

Speaker 8 When you watch state regime media, it's it's watching an alternative reality, a reality that's meant to propagandize, to lie, to deceive.

Speaker 8 It's no different than the propaganda they've got in North Korea or Russia. But here's the thing.
We, the people, are resilient. We know what they're trying to do.

Speaker 8 And we're not going to fall for this crap, right? We're in this together and we know what they're doing. But just watch what they do here, play this clip.

Speaker 13 And you listed a lot of those things. And, you know, the lower inflation and gas prices are key to all of that.

Speaker 13 But there is polling that shows that there remains some frustration among consumers or voters.

Speaker 13 What does the White House have to do to reach those people or make changes so that those people feel better?

Speaker 13 And obviously they're getting lied to by the media, which has always been a problem for Republicans.

Speaker 13 But what can the White House do to make either fix things so that they feel better or convince them that the situation is better?

Speaker 20 Well, I think the most important point of all, and look, the polling shows overwhelming support for President Trump across every single issue and dimension.

Speaker 8 All right. So I'm showing you the tactics of state regime media.
Here's, right, first they start talking about, oh, Pete Budigich, what is he? They think he's Chuck Norris.

Speaker 8 Then they go, everybody's rich. You're making so much money.
You just got 4.3% richer. Then they go, ah, it's the fake news.
The bad guys, they're telling you that you're doing bad.

Speaker 8 So what other tactics are used in the toolkit of an authoritarian regime media? Well, they have to divide us, right? So how do they divide us? Religion, of course.

Speaker 8 So they focus on this story that nobody else is really talking about other than regime media, where they talk about a University of Oklahoma instructor who was fired after failing a student for quoting the Bible in her essay.

Speaker 8 Well, that's not exactly the situation that happened. The teacher was indeed fired, but what happened was, was that the assignment had nothing to do with the Bible or religion?

Speaker 8 It was like the class assignment was to respond to something providing facts, and the student wanted to use it to talk about religion. By the way, that's fine.
You want to talk about religion?

Speaker 8 Maybe talk about it in a religious class. Maybe talk about it when it's responsive to a topic that's not a different topic than religion.
That's fine.

Speaker 8 Just you don't need to answer a question having nothing to do with religion by copying and pasting Bible verses that that have nothing to do with it. By the way, you want to quote Bible verses?

Speaker 8 Great, quote it. But it's just, that doesn't mean it's the right answer to the question that's being asked.
But here, play, play this clip right here.

Speaker 21 So, Donna, there are several different angles to this. One of them, obviously, is this teaching assistant who goes by she, they pronouns, and she essentially asked students to write an opinion piece.

Speaker 21 And then, you know, clearly she was looking for a specific answer and was fired as a result. So what do you think about this?

Speaker 16 So first of all, I think this goes to the overreaching issue we have in academia today.

Speaker 16 Whether we're at the collegiate level, whether we're in high school, there is this indoctrination happening where if you don't believe a certain way, it came out today, the University of Illinois, one of their classes that you must take to graduate, have all of these gender ideologies and things that they are expecting people to learn.

Speaker 16 And so, when you look at this, you have to say, first of all, what was the assignment? And as you said, the assignment was based on someone's opinion.

Speaker 16 You then cannot grade based on not liking the opinion. You have to grade the essay based on did you follow whatever parameters the assignment was.

Speaker 16 And here, clearly, I mean the minute you have a professor saying something that you wrote is offensive, clearly you're showing that there's a bias there from the minute that you read it.

Speaker 16 So I think it's good that the school is taking a stance against this and saying we're not going to allow this. But moving forward, I think this is an issue that many kids in college face today.

Speaker 16 I have friends whose kids are feeling the same way.

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Speaker 8 And then Fox continues down this path. They're like, yeah, sure, we may be a secular republic, but we all know that we are a Christian nation.
We are a Christian nation first.

Speaker 8 I just want you to know the tactics here, right? The tactics are: how do they divide us? How do they separate us?

Speaker 8 How do they otherize us and make us point fingers at each other rather than unite against these authoritarians and these right-wing billionaires and this oligarchy that's trying to subjugate us?

Speaker 8 That's what's happening here. So just focus on what they're trying to do here.
Play this clip.

Speaker 21 She got this letter accusing her of being

Speaker 21 anti-any religion other than Christianity as she was leaving a menorah lighting ceremony. Like that's the irony of the timing of that.

Speaker 21 Also, she's the daughter of the governor of the ambassador to Israel. So accusing her of being anything other than religiously inclusive is a very difficult argument to make.

Speaker 21 But the bottom line here is that yes, we are a secular republic when it comes to our government, but we are a Christian nation. So it should come as no surprise to anybody to have

Speaker 21 the message of Christianity when it comes to her declaration about the Christmas season.

Speaker 8 Now, everything that they do is also utilizing national security as a way to further Donald Trump's authoritarian ends.

Speaker 8 So we all know that Donald Trump hates windmills, and he hates windmills because when he bought a golf course in Scotland, they had windmills off the coast and he hated the windmills.

Speaker 8 And so he's always had a thing against windmills. So while electricity prices are going up 15, 20%, you've seen your electricity bill, right?

Speaker 8 Wind power, solar power, is helpful in bringing costs down. It just is.

Speaker 8 It's an undisputed fact. But Donald Trump wants to shut down wind and solar projects, which also employ tens of thousands of Americans at these projects.

Speaker 8 And so he has his Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergham, claiming a national security concern created by wind turbines are detailed in a classified report.

Speaker 8 So now we need to shut down all of the major wind projects taking place in this country and never get wind power again. And they're going to use national security as a pretext for doing this.

Speaker 8 Play this clip.

Speaker 18 Modern warfare is drone warfare.

Speaker 18 And the radar interference caused by these massive gargantuan projects, I mean, understanding that a single one of these towers uh can be one and a half to times taller than the imp than the washington monument the blades themselves uh the diameter of the blades is bigger than the statue of liberty two and a half football fields these things are moving at 150 miles an hour our ground-based radar is designed to pick up movement.

Speaker 18 If you wanted to attack a population center on the east coast of our country, you would send a swarm of drones right through one of these wind farms. That's the basis of this understanding.

Speaker 18 But as we said, we've got a 90-day pause pause we've announced. We're happy to sit down and see if we can try to find mitigation, but this is a real national security concern.

Speaker 8 Then you have Sean Duffy, Sean from the real world. That's how he got famous.
He was on the real world and the real world road rules challenge.

Speaker 8 All these people are like failed reality stars who want to draw us in non-consensually into their dystopian reality show where we are the unwitting extras. We don't want to be a part of this.

Speaker 8 We just want to go about our normal lives. And here, Sean Duffy brags: What I can do to blue states, you know what I can do? I'll pull their funding.
I'll pull their funding.

Speaker 8 You could threaten blue states all you want, Duffy, but at the end of the day, the blue states are contributing far more money to the federal government than the red states are.

Speaker 8 The red states are being subsidized by the blue states. Look it up.
It's a fact.

Speaker 8 California gives $85 billion more to the federal government than it takes in, whereas Texas takes, it's a leech, it takes $75 billion more than it gives.

Speaker 8 So you screw over the people contributing, subsidizing the red states while rewarding the states that screw over the federal government.

Speaker 8 It's Trumpy and dystopian. Here, play this clip of Duffy, though.
Let's play it.

Speaker 23 But what I can do, Brian, is I can pull their money. That's the leverage that I do have.

Speaker 23 And as long as they don't comply, there's statutory rules by which I have to abide, but I have to give them time to comply with our rules.

Speaker 23 But if they don't, I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they're putting illegals on the roads and endangering the lives of the American people.

Speaker 23 And you know this. If you get a driver's license in Colorado, New York, or California, you don't stay in those states.

Speaker 23 You actually travel across the country, so you endanger every single American by putting an unqualified driver behind the wheel as they travel across all of the lower 48. Incredibly dangerous.

Speaker 23 So, what

Speaker 8 else? What else in state regime media? Oh, you got a big announcement from Christine Ohm.

Speaker 8 Her big announcement is: we're saying that if you voluntarily want to go home to your country, we will give you $3,000. And we know this is all fraud as well.

Speaker 8 People who have taken this deal before just get snatched off the street and often don't get the money. But here's what she's saying: let's play this clip.

Speaker 24 Meanwhile, your department department has a big announcement today because some folks have decided, you know what, they don't want to go through the immigration process anymore.

Speaker 24 They're in the country illegally and they're going to self-deport. And you're announcing a new incentive.
What is that announcement, Madam Secretary?

Speaker 19 Well, it's home for the holidays season.

Speaker 19 So, you know, not only are we returning those kiddos back to their families that Biden lost, we also are saying that if you voluntarily want to go home now to your country, if you're in this United States of America illegally, we will give you $3,000 through the holidays to send you home.

Speaker 19 We'll buy you a ticket, give you $3,000 to go home. And that includes people that have not been detained, maybe have interacted with us, are detained and don't have criminal charges against them.

Speaker 19 Yeah, raise your hand. We'll help you get home.
We'll facilitate it and you might get the chance to come back to this country.

Speaker 8 And of course, you've got James Comer, MAGA Republican who leads the House Oversight Committee, whose essential role is to engage in all of the obstruction of justice for Donald Trump.

Speaker 8 And here you have James Comer saying, I'm so happy for what I applaud Congress. This is exactly what we've wanted.
What we're seeing right now is transparency at its finest. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 25 This is what the American people wanted. This is what Congress overwhelmingly voted for.

Speaker 25 And I applaud the Trump administration for complying with this request and getting these documents so that everyone can lay eyes on them and judge for themselves

Speaker 25 who the bad guys are in this whole disastrous Epstein saga.

Speaker 8 And then you have James Comer also saying, look, we know that Trump has nothing to do with any of this at all. Let's play this clip right here.

Speaker 25 The narrative that they've tried to put out to the public, along with the liberal media, that Donald Trump has a huge amount of liability in this, I just don't think that's there.

Speaker 25 So the Democrats are going to be outraged. They're going to try to make people not believe what they see with their own eyes.

Speaker 8 So that's your daily dose of state regime media. I want you to see their tactics so we can call it out.
We know what they're doing.

Speaker 8 So there's no deception, but that you see the maliciousness with which they implement their regime media. You see for yourself, right?

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