Fox News host Howard Kurtz personally corrected former President Donald Trump after he claimed that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged." "So, you know, we ended up winning, and we did much better in 2020," Trump told Kurtz in an interview that aired on Sunday. "We did. I did. You know, I did millions and millions of votes more in 2020. I did much better." ALSO READ: Racism, arrests, extreme MAGA love: Meet Lauren Boebert’s primary opponents "And you can cut this if you want, but...
Happy Tuesday, all! Here's your Tuesday Tech Drop, the top stories in tech and politics from the past week. Musk's intimidation tactics take a hit Tech billionaire Elon Musk took an embarrassing loss in court on Monday after a federal judge tossed out his lawsuit accusing a disinformation watchdog of attempting to hurt his social media company’s bottom line. Judge Charles Breyer agreed to throw out the lawsuit Musk filed against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, in which he alleged the...
The former chair of the Florida Republican Party likened the carnage of firings at the Republican National Committee under new chair Lara Trump to a "funeral" and taking the party in the wrong direction.The new Trump-aligned leadership of the Republican National Committee is preparing to lay off at least 60 employees in several departments of the party, which is now led by former President Trump's daughter-in-law.According to Politico, two people close to the RNC and Trump's campaign said the...
Ken Block’s new book 'Disproven,' on his investigation into voter fraud in the 2020 election, makes many misleading and contradictory claims.
Happy Birthday to Barron Trump, son of Donald, who turned 18 years old on Wednesday. In some ways, Barron is now an adult and can enjoy the privileges that go with coming of age.
According to the panelists misinformation takes a larger shape during elections and hence more concrete policies are needed to empower the fact-checkers who tackle this.
Sen. Ted Cruz used his podcast last week to present his listeners with a scary sounding tale. To hear the Texas Republican tell it, the Biden administration “chartered flights” in order to “import 320,000 illegal aliens” into the United States. As the senator probably realized, the claims were wildly misleading, but that didn’t stop Cruz from sending out a fundraising appeal this week, under a “Biden is flying illegals into America” subject line. The message to donors read in part: That final...
Republican sued last year by Stephen Richer, top Maricopa county official, after she lost her gubernatorial bid and lied about himKari Lake signaled on Tuesday that she will not contest claims that she lied about a top Arizona election official and defamed him, a significant legal concession from the Arizona Republican who has become one of the country’s most prominent election deniers.Stephen Richer, the top election official in Maricopa county, sued Lake, her campaign and an aligned Pac last...
Fox News host Eric Shawn pointed out that Donald Trump's claim that his New York fraud bond is unprecedented was simply "not true." During an interview with former federal prosecutor Alex Little, Shawn noted that Trump had repeatedly made the claim about the $454 million bond. "We've also heard there's a lot of talk about this is unprecedented amount of money," Shawn explained on Sunday. "This has never happened before. But that's actually not true." "This is from Letitia James, the...
The mainstream media is no stranger to taking statements out of context — and former President Donald Trump is one of its favorite targets. At a recent rally in Dayton, Ohio, Trump used the word “bloodbath” while discussing the economy and what would happen to the auto industry specifically if he weren’t elected, and the cherry-picking media is having a field day. “China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think they're going to...
Attorneys representing Donald Trump said Monday that the former president
This is all to do with the design on the new England shirt, by the way - and LBC may have just aired the maddest opinion of the lot.