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Nov 18, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard |Torri Lonergan |Pete Tsipis |Chloe Simon
Fox News is downplaying President-elect Donald Trump’s planned “mass deportations” by saying the effort will prioritize migrants with “criminal records.” But two of his top picks to oversee immigration policy have echoed what he and the vice president-elect have threatened: The deportations will include all undocumented immigrants in addition to migrants here legally and mixed-status families.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard
Following recent ProPublica stories about the death of two women in Texas as they sought abortion care during medical emergencies, anti-abortion figures and groups are claiming the outlet is attempting to blame abortion bans for their deaths, defending the state’s anti-abortion laws, and arguing the two women were really “victims of medical malpractice aggravated by inaccurate and politically-motivated media reporting.” ProPublica recently detailed two women in Texas who died as they sought...
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard
This week, retired Gen. John Kelly -- former chief of staff to former President Donald Trump -- asserted in interviews with The New York Times that he believed Trump “falls into the general definition of fascist” and that he has previously praised Adolf Hitler. Vice President Kamala Harris echoed the sentiments during her town hall on Wednesday night when asked about Kelly’s comments, sending right-wing media into an uproar.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard
During an October 16 town hall hosted by Fox News, former President Donald Trump falsely proclaimed — unchallenged by host Harris Faulkner — that the decision to overturn Roe v.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard
Trump called for CBS’ broadcast license to be revoked while accusing the network of editing interview footage to the benefit of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard |Pete Tsipis |Payton Armstrong
At the end of September, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Southeast, quickly becoming one of the deadliest natural disasters of the century. With at least 200 confirmed deaths a week into rescue and recovery efforts, Southeastern states have sought federal aid and assistance to rebuild the devastation caused by the storm, which made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Bushra Sultana |Alicia Sadowski |Helena Hind |Charis Hoard |Isabella Corrao | +2 more
In a court filing made public on October 2, special counsel Jack Smith “revealed a litany of damning new allegations about former President Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 election.” Mother Jones noted that the filing “presents new evidence that Trump knew his election fraud claims were false but proceeded anyway with a scheme to use so-called fake electors and outside pressure to stop Joe Biden’s electoral victory from being made official.” Trump and his legal team tried to block...
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Charis Hoard
Right-wing media are misrepresenting data about noncitizens with criminal histories to falsely claim President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris have allowed for “thousands of illegals” who are “murderers” and “rapists” to come in through their “open border” or to fearmonger that high numbers of criminals are “roaming free in the U.S.”On September 27, Rep.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard |Chloe Simon
In the first presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump repeated a bizarre, debunked hoax from social media falsely claiming that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating neighborhood pets.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard
After announcing her intent, if elected, to revive a contentious bipartisan immigration bill that included border wall funding allocations, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is facing a smear campaign from right-wing media falsely alleging that she is making a “U-turn” and going “ultra MAGA to win an election” by “copying and pasting” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's policies.
