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Jan 17, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Torri Lonergan
Broadcast and cable networks are misleading viewers by playing b-roll of the border during their coverage of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan. Some journalists warn that these visuals misrepresent the plan, as it will extend far beyond migrants currently crossing the border. Trump has pledged to deport all undocumented immigrants — along with some legal immigrants — living in the United States.
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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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Aug 22, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Torri Lonergan
During the first two days of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Planned Parenthood set up a mobile unit in a nearby neighborhood to offer free health care services including medication abortion and vasectomies.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Pete Tsipis |Torri Lonergan
Following an assassination attempt against Trump during his July 13 rally, right-wing media and campaign figures attempted to rebrand him as a “changed man.” Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that Trump became “the leader of this nation” after the shooting and is no longer the “selfish guy I’ve been hearing about for nine years.” Donald Trump Jr. also claimed that his father has been changed “permanently” following the attempt.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Torri Lonergan |Reed McMaster
On June 18, Biden unveiled a new executive order aimed at protecting the undocumented spouses and stepchildren of American citizens. This policy allows participants to remain in the country while they apply for legal residency, helping to prevent family separations. [PBS News, 6/18/24]While this action will have a major impact on 500,000 American families, it is a relatively small change to existing immigration law.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Torri Lonergan |Sage Hodil |Isabella Corrao |Jane Lee |Alicia Sadowski
Hunter Biden was indicted on three charges. Hunter Biden’s trial, which began on June 3 in Wilmington, Delaware, focuses on three firearm felonies for lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the federal form recording the purchase of a firearm, and possessing a gun “while he was allegedly an unlawful user or addicted to controlled substances” in October 2018. [Delaware U.S. District Court, USA v.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Ethan Collier |Torri Lonergan |Alicia Sadowski |Isabella Corrao
Following Judge Juan Merchan’s decision to put former President Donald Trump under a gag order ahead of his hush money trial, right-wing reactionary Laura Loomer claimed to have unearthed the judge’s daughter Loren Merchan’s X account, attacking her for supposed anti-Trump content. Seemingly in response to Loomer’s claims, Trump took to Truth Social to lash out at the Merchans, claiming without evidence that the judge is beholden to his daughter's Democratic political interests.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Torri Lonergan
Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation show that crime in the U.S. decreased between 2022 and 2023. In fact, according to crime researcher and AH Datalytics co-founder Jeff Asher, violent crime is at one of its lowest levels since 1950, with significant declines in murder and gun violence. Nevertheless, Fox News has consistently downplayed and disputed these statistics, placing more emphasis on peoples’ feelings about crime than on actual crime rates.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Torri Lonergan |Isabella Corrao
Hur released his report on Biden’s handling of classified documents on February 8, noting that Biden cooperated fully and returned all materials when asked. Biden also sat for a voluntary interview and allowed FBI agents to search his office and Delaware home for additional materials that had not previously been discovered. [CNN, 2/8/24]Trump, however, allegedly refused to return documents to the National Archives when asked to do so and lied about it in testimony.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard |Audrey McCabe |Torri Lonergan
After the special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents found that no chargeable crime was committed, right-wing media figures are still claiming that the report, which states that Biden would likely present to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man “with a poor memory,” indicates that Biden should be removed from office using the 25th Amendment.
