Media Matters’ Kat Abughazaleh put together a mock horror movie trailer with clips of Fox News reactions to Donald Trump’s latest federal felony charges. The newest four, out of 78 total criminal charges (so far), are for trying to steal and overturn the 2020 presidential election. But the propaganda network wants you to be more horrified that TFG was indicted than the fact that a U.S. president worked to undermine and sabotage our democracy in plain sight.
The coming attractions of Fox News’ coverage: Stephen Miller ghoulishly calling the indictment “the legal equivalent of the French guillotine,” Jesse Watters exclaiming it’s “a political war crime,” and Laura Ingraham all but shrieking, “This is not your country any more.”
Later, with Orwellian irony, Sean Hannity removed his nose from Trump’s butt long enough to claim that indicting a guy who attacked our constitution is “the shredding of our constitution.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, who hopes to be elected president, proved he’s all in on destroying our democracy, too. He joined Sen. Tom Cotton and Hannity in fear mongering that the rule of law represents a “full banana republic.”
“This election cycle, watch Fox News fall apart,” Abughazaleh's screen text says.
It’s them or us.
