August 28, 2022

If anyone was wondering how Fox “News” is defending the indefensible, which is the ongoing national security threat perpetrated by the orange menace named Donald Trump and his theft of classified documents which he and his cronies are pretending he declassified, here's Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth doing just that this Sunday.

HEGSETH: So, this is about paperwork. You know what I'm reminded of? Allen Iverson once said, you're talking about practice. We're not talking about the game. We're talking about practice. So, we're not... we're talking about paperwork here? We're talking about a paperwork dispute. So, that's what this whole thing is about?

You raided the former president's house with 30 agents, 270 man-hours, and it's over paperwork? With the archives? And then you're using news, even the one we showed, news reports, to make it look like something nefarious was going on at Mar-a-Lago, when there was a conversation going on.

Certainly a conversation on about classification, executive privilege, what the president has a right to have or not have, and there are always differences in those points of view, but ultimately, it's about paperwork.

First of all, it wasn't his "house." It's a hotel and security nightmare of a hotel that he happens to live in. Second, it wasn't a "raid." Third, there certainly was something "nefarious" going on and other media outlets that report actual "news" and aren't purely right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox are, heaven forbid, reporting just that.

I'm waiting to see how they react on Fox once we do actually see what's in the affidavit, find out who it is on the inside at Mar-a-Lago that's turned on Trump, and just how many of our CIA agents he's responsible for being killed.

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