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Trump rips Biden for ‘spiraling tsunami’ at border

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President Donald J. Trump stands before a plaque Tuesday, June 23, 2020, commemorating the 200th mile of new border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Arizona. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

Amid a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied children, former President Trump on Friday issued a statement scolding President Biden for a “spiraling tsunami” at the border.

“Our border is now totally out of control thanks to the disastrous leadership of Joe Biden,” Trump said. “Our great Border Patrol and ICE agents have been disrespected, demeaned, and mocked by the Biden Administration. A mass incursion into the country by people who should not be here is happening on an hourly basis, getting worse by the minute.”

Trump noted the Biden administration order to release migrants in South Texas who had tested positive for COVID-19 and the shutdown of interior immigration enforcement.

“The spiraling tsunami at the border is overwhelming local communities, depleting budgets, crowding hospitals, and taking jobs from legal American workers,” he said.

Trump said that when he left office, his administration “had achieved the most secure border in our country’s history.”

“Under Biden, it will soon be worse, more dangerous, and more out of control than ever before. He has violated his oath of office to uphold our Constitution and enforce our laws,” he said.

At the White House on Friday, press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed Trump’s statement.

“We don’t take our advice or counsel from former President Trump on immigration policy, which was not only inhumane but ineffective over the last four years,” she said. “We’re going to tread our own path forward and that includes treating children with humanity and respect and ensuring they’re safe when they cross our borders.”

Biden has fufilled campaign promises to stop construction of the border wall, eliminate the Remain in Mexico policy and restore “catch-and-release.” In Congress, his Democratic allies are proposing legislation that would provide a pathway for citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already in the country.

Biden also has ended agreements with Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala that allowed migrants to make asylum claims from their home countries.

Trump’s agreement with the Northern Triangle countries was one of many made with the aim of ending the 2019 migrant crisis.

In his statement Friday, Trump said Biden abandoned the “incredible” Remain in Mexico policy “probably because it worked so well.”

“Likewise, our Safe Third Agreements in Central America were extraordinarily successful, so Biden foolishly ditched them too,” he said.

Trump charged in his CPAC speech last Sunday that Biden was fomenting a “self-inflicted humanitarian and national security disaster.”

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Trump blames McConnell, Gov. Kemp for losing GOP Senate seats in Georgia

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Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, blaming them Thursday for the loss of two Republican Senate seats to Democrats. Trump, in an emailed statement, said Kemp’s ​failure to enforce alleged voting irregularities in the state dampened Republican voter turnout at the polls in the Peach State. “​To…

WATCH Trump at CPAC: Big Tech Should Be ‘Punished’ for Censoring Conservative Voices

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Former President Donald Trump gave a powerful speech at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference. He asserted his leadership over the conservative movement and demanded an end to Big Tech censorship.

“The time has come to break up Big Tech monopolies and restore fair competition,” Trump proclaimed Feb. 28 at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Trump suggested multiple solutions, the first of which was the “repeal” of  “Section 230 Liability Protection.” Trump went on to suggest that “if the federal government refuses to act, then every state in the union where we have the votes, which is a lot of them, Big Tech giants, like Twitter, Google and Facebook, should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices.” 

Trump also mentioned the new initiatives to stop Big Tech censorship put forward by Florida and Texas as proof of concept: “Governor Ron Desantis of Florida, and in Texas, and in other states, are doing this. If they do what they’re doing, Florida —  and that legislation will pass — and Texas and others will have tremendous power to do what’s right and what’s fair.”

Trump made clear that there would be dire consequences if the problem of Big Tech censorship was not solved: “If Republicans can be censored for speaking the truth and calling out corruption, we will not have democracy, and we will have only left-wing tyranny.” He took time to remember how America, up until recently, was famous for its capacity to allow open debate: “In the past, we would debate,” he recounted. “Who knows who wins? You know, people go, they vote, [and then] they see what happens. But they would have an idea. They would disagree. The public would hear it. The debate and discourse would take place. And then somebody would make a decision. You would win. You would lose. The public would make up its mind.” 

But Trump observed that in 2021: “now there is no debate because they refuse to allow our side to even speak or be heard. They don’t want debate, because we have easy victories in a debate, very easy victories. It’s called common sense. It’s called other things, but it’s called common sense. So they don’t want to debate.”

Trump’s shoutout to proposed legislation in Florida and Texas was a major hit with the audience, and for good reason.

DeSantis (R-FL) had declared during a Feb. 2 press conference that “Floridians should have the privacy of their data and personal information protected, their ability to access and participate in online platforms protected, and their ability to participate in elections free from interference from Big Tech protected.” Under the anti-censorship rule DeSantis wishes to pass, “technology companies that de-platform a candidate during an election will face a daily fine of $100,000 until the candidate’s access to the platform is restored,” The Epoch Times summarized. DeSantis further suggested that “If a technology company promotes a candidate for office against another, the value of that free promotion must be recorded as a political campaign contribution enforced by the Florida Elections Commission.” 

As Trump also mentioned , Texas Republicans have introduced legislation to protect free speech as well. “What we would like to do is to give any Texan who’s being discriminated against the option to bring an action,” State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-TX) explained in an interview. “We think that will get Facebook’s attention, get Twitter’s attention, and cause them to start treating Texans fairly.”

Conservatives are under attack. Contact your local representative and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

New York Times Reporter Donald McNeil Says Paper Twisted His Arm Into Resigning

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Former New York Times reporter Donald McNeil says he was pushed out of the paper by Dean Baquet, the Times’s executive editor, even though Baquet conceded that the allegations against McNeil were baseless.

Baquet allegedly told McNeil, “I know you’re not a racist,” but encouraged him to resign anyway because he had “lost the newsroom.” “We’re not firing you,” Baquet said. “We’re asking you to consider resigning.” McNeil, whose work on the coronavirus pandemic is being considered for a Pulitzer Prize, recounted the incident in a Medium post on Monday.

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The post confirms what several Times insiders had alleged: Although McNeil technically resigned of his own volition, he was under intense pressure to do so. When the star science reporter asked for details about the allegations, Baquet was silent. “It felt like an attempt to intimidate me,” McNeil wrote.

The conversation occurred a few days after the Daily Beast reported that McNeil said the n-word while chaperoning high school students in Peru. One student had asked him if her classmate should have been suspended for using the word, and McNeil, requesting context, uttered it aloud himself. Baquet had initially reprimanded McNeil for his “extremely poor judgment” but stopped short of firing him. It was only after the Daily Beast report that McNeil was pushed out.

The Medium post also suggests that the New York Times union was unwilling to defend McNeil. The union “was deeply split over my case,” McNeil said, so “I decided I needed my own lawyer.” As the Washington Free Beacon reported last month, the union even exploited U.S. labor law to up the pressure on McNeil.

While McNeil said he still considers Baquet a friend, he had harsher words for Charlotte Behrendt, the human resources official who oversaw the investigation into his conduct. “She makes the Times newsroom more like North Korea every day,” he said in a follow-up Medium post, quoting an email he had sent to a friend.

Behrendt herself had used the n-word while grilling McNeil about the Peru incident. “I flinched a little as she said it,” McNeil said, recounting a meeting at which he and Bill Baker, the New York Times union chair, were present. “[M]ostly because Bill, who was sitting next to me, is black.”

Neither Baquet nor Behrendt responded to requests for comment.

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Heeee’s back!

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Former President Donald J. Trump speaks at CPAC in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (Video screenshot)

“Do you miss me yet?”

That’s how Donald J. Trump began his first speech since leaving the presidency.

It was like old times … familiar times.

It was like the 2020 campaign season, listening to all those speeches when we knew we were winning.

It was amazing to hear Trump say, “I may even decide to beat them a third time.”

“Democrats should suffer withering losses in the midterms and to lose the White House decisively four years from now,” he said. “Our movement of hard-working American patriots is just getting started, and in the end, we will win.”

It was reassuring when he told us that his movement “is far from being over” and that “there’s never been a journey more successful.”

Then he launched into a potpourri of whatever was on his mind – stream-of-consciousness style.

“The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic and cultural interests and values of working American families — of every race, every color and every creed,” he said. “Republicans believe that the needs of everyday citizens must come first.”

He pledged not be involved in organizing a third party – calling reports to the contrary “fake news.”

“We’re not starting new parties,” he assured. “We have the Republican Party. It’s going to unite and be stronger than ever before. A Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House, and I wonder who that will be. Who, who, who will that be?”

He again called into question the integrity of the 2020 race.

“We have a very sick and corrupt electoral process,” he stated. “This election was rigged and the Supreme Court … didn’t want to do anything about it. They didn’t have the courage to act. They should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to our country. … They didn’t have the guts to do what should be done. And that’s on top of all the other forms of cheating.”

Trump hammered the early days of the Biden administration without apologies.

“Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in history,” Trump said, saying the Democratic Party was anti-jobs, anti-families, anti-women and anti-science. “We reject left-wing lunacy and in particular we reject cancel culture!” Trump exclaimed.

“We all knew the Biden administration was going to be bad, but none of us even imagined just how bad they would be,” he said. “He talked about energy. I thought, ‘this guy, actually he’s OK with energy.’ He wasn’t OK with energy … he wants windmills.”

Trump also called for action against internet powerhouses who are squelching the political right online.

“Big Tech giants like Google and Facebook should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices.”

It was all tremendously appealing, refreshing and charming – pure Trump!

I’ll bet there were millions of Americans waiting for an eternity for the speech to begin. It was scheduled to start an hour and a half or so earlier. But it was worth it! It was classic Trump – something the nation needed as this amateur president, this impostor, this usurper tries to fill his shoes.

So did we miss him?

We sure did.

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Trump teases 2024 run: ‘I may even decide to beat them for a third time’

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Former President Donald J. Trump speaks at CPAC in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (Video screenshot)

ORLANDO, Florida — Making his first public appearance since leaving there White House, former President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested he may run for president again in 2024.

“Actually, you know, [Democrats] just lost the White House, it’s one of those things,” Trump told CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee.

“But who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time,” he said to roaring approval from the crowd.

I stand before you to declare that the incredible journey that we began together … we began it four years ago. It is far from being over.”

“In the end, we will win,” he maintained. “We’ve been doing a lot of winning.”

Trump said reports that he’d be leading a brand-new political party were nothing more than “fake news.”

“We’re not starting new parties,” he assured. “We have the Republican Party. It’s going to unite and be stronger than ever before.”

Trump hammered the early days of the Biden administration without apologies.

“Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in history,” Trump said, saying the Democratic Party was anti-jobs, anti-families, anti-women and anti-science.

“We reject left-wing lunacy and in particular we reject cancel culture!” Trump exclaimed.

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Trump will spend ‘rest of his years in civil and criminal courts,’ Swalwell says

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President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks on the America First Healthcare Plan Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at the Duke Energy Hangar in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

By Mary Rose Corkery
Daily Caller News Foundation

Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell said Wednesday that he believes former President Donald Trump will “spend the rest of his years in civil and criminal courts.”

“A twice impeached president who incited an attack on our Capitol that led to the killing of a cop as … I believe, has no business being at any gathering of any Americans. I think he’s gonna spend the rest of his years in civil and criminal courts,” Swalwell said on “MSNBC Live With Ayman Mohyeldin.”

House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy disagreed on Wednesday in a House GOP leadership press conference about whether Trump should address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Sunday. McCarthy said Trump should speak, but Cheney said “that’s up to CPAC.”

“I’ve been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which, following January 6th, I don’t believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country,” Cheney said.

“But if they want to have him, that’s their right to do so. I’m more aligned with people like Liz Cheney who said today, standing next to Kevin McCarthy, that he shouldn’t have a role in our country,” Swalwell said.

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The Senate voted 57-43 in February to convict the former president, but failed to reach the necessary 67 votes. The House voted 232-197 on Jan. 13 to impeach the Trump, charging him with a single article of “incitement of insurrection” after a mob of the former president’s supporters breached the Capitol building on Jan. 6 while Congress was certifying the Electoral College results of the 2020 election.

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FCC chair silent on deplatforming conservative news, accused Trump of ‘assault on free expression’

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President Donald J. Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta Wednesday, July 15, 2020, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

By Chuck Ross
Daily Caller News Foundation

  • Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has yet to comment on a pressure campaign by two House Democrats to deplatform conservative TV networks.
  • In 2017, Rosenworcel decried a tweet from President Trump suggesting that broadcasting licenses for NBC News be reviewed.
  • On Monday, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jim McNerny submitted letters to 12 cable and streaming pressuring them to stop airing Fox News, Newsmax and OANN.
  • Also on Monday, Eshoo urged the White House to nominate Rosenworcel the permanent FCC chair.

On Monday, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent out two letters: one urging cable and streaming providers to deplatform three conservative news networks, and another calling on President Joe Biden to make Jessica Rosenworcel the permanent chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Rosenworcel would seemingly have some say over the proposal from the first letter, sent out by California Rep. Anna Eshoo, but she has so far stayed silent on the issue. Brendan Carr, a Republican FCC commissioner, called Monday for his fellow commissioners to publicly denounce the letter.

Rosenworcel’s silence is a reversal of sorts from 2017 when the Democratic FCC commissioner criticized President Donald Trump for an “assault on free expression” for proposing a review of broadcast licenses for NBC News affiliates.

“I don’t think that the government should be in the business of substituting its judgment for programming licensees,” Rosenworcel said in a 2017 interview on CNN, according to The Federalist.

“I think it’s essential for newsgathering that the government isn’t dictating what content should and shouldn’t be on the airwaves.”

Rosenworcel, who was first appointed to the FCC in 2012, called on her fellow commissioners in the CNN interview to “make clear that they support the First Amendment” by affirming that the agency would not revoke TV licenses at the whim of the president.

“History won’t be kind to silence,” Rosenworcel said.

Rosenworcel has not commented publicly on Eshoo and McNerny’s efforts to deplatform Fox News, Newsmax and OANN.

The Democrats urged 12 cable, satellite and streaming providers to cut ties with the conservative networks because of their coverage of voter fraud allegations after the 2020 election.

Eshoo and McNerny asserted that the companies “have done nothing in response to the misinformation aired by these outlets.”

“Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax on your platform both now and beyond the renewal date?” they asked in the letter sent to companies like Cox Communications, AT&T, Dish, Apple and Comcast.

“If so, why?”

Carr and another FCC Republican, Nathan Simington, publicly condemned the letter on Monday.

Carr called it a “chilling transgression” aimed at stifling political speech.

“I call on my FCC colleagues to join me in publicly denouncing this attempt to stifle political speech and independent news judgment,” he said.

Simington accused Eshoo and McNerny of seeking to “intimidate into silence those who would distribute on their platforms disfavored points of view.”

Simington said the letter was “particularly concerning” because the House Energy and Commerce Committee oversees the Communications Act.

“Their statement could be read to imply that action will be taken under the Communications Act should the recipients not agree in advance to chill their speech.”

Rosenworcel did not respond to an email seeking comment on the letter, or the request by Carr that she speak out publicly. The FCC’s media office also did not respond to a request for comment.

Rosenworcel is vying to become the first female chair of the FCC.

In her letter to the White House on Monday, Eshoo said that the FCC has “embarrassingly never had a woman” serve as permanent chair of the commission.

“We urge the Administration to rectify this track record by nominating Jessica Rosenworcel to the role of FCC Chairwoman,” reads the letter, which Eshoo signed with more than 30 female House Democrats.

Trump suggested twice during his presidency, in 2017 and 2018, that licenses for NBC stations be revoked. He first suggested it in October 2017 after NBC News published what he called a “fake news” report about his nuclear strategy.

Trump floated the idea again in September 2018 after a report that NBC News executives allegedly killed a story about disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

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Study blasting Fox News riddled with ‘misrepresentations’

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President Donald J. Trump participates in a town-hall interview taping with Sean Hannity of Fox News Thursday, June 25, 2020, at Green Bay-Austin Struble International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

By Andrew Kerr
Daily Caller News Foundation

A study from a liberal media watchdog group that claimed Fox News promoted coronavirus misinformation an estimated 13,551 times in 2020 on weekday programs, but its list of claims is riddled with misrepresentations, flagged accurate remarks and fact checked clear statements of opinion.

Media Matters for America did not provide the methodology used to establish its estimated 13,551 figure, nor did it disclose a list of each instance of what it identified as Fox News misinformation for independent review. Despite this, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof promoted a Media Matters campaign to get cable providers to drop Fox News from their basic cable packages.

Kristof quoted Media Matters President Angelo Carusone, who cited the figure, and linked to a related Media Matters page proclaiming Fox News “Misinformer of the Year.”

Ursinus College associate professor of media and communication studies Anthony Nadler told the Daily Caller News Foundation that any study on misinformation that lacks transparency in its methodology should be seen as a red flag.

“My thought is that if a study of misinformation or propaganda does not offer a detailed explanation of its methods, that should give any news organization pause before reporting its findings,” Nadler said. “There are certainly times when there are compelling reasons not to release full data (privacy concerns).”

“But something that lacks transparency in methods lacks credibility,” Nadler added.

Media Matters did not respond to multiple requests for comment asking for a full list of the estimated 13,551 instances of Fox News coronavirus misinformation it flagged and the methodology used to come up with the figure.

Media Matters did publish a companion piece to its study that listed around 1,000 instances of what it called the “broader extent of Fox’s lies, propaganda, conspiracy theories, bigotry and misinformation” in 2020.

The list did flag legitimate instances of misinformation from Fox News, but much of what Media Matters characterized as Fox News misinformation can be more accurately described as opinion, and the list contained many blatant misrepresentations of what actually transpired.

For example, Media Matters falsely accused Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel of spreading coronavirus misinformation on March 12, 2020, when he made a “brief mention of chloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19.”

What Media Matters flagged as misinformation was in fact Siegel accurately reporting that South Korea was at the time testing chloroquine, remdesivir and Plaquenil, a brand name for hydroxychloroquine, as potential treatments for coronavirus.

Media Matters also flagged Fox News host Sean Hannity for misinformation for displaying a graphic that accurately indicated that there were zero coronavirus deaths in the United States on Feb. 27, 2020, as misinformation. The first confirmed U.S. coronavirus death came two days later on Feb. 29, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Media Matters falsely accused Siegel of attacking the World Health Organization for warning about coronavirus during a March 6, 2020, segment on Fox News.

In reality, Siegel was criticizing the WHO’s initial projected coronavirus death rate of 3.4% during the segment, calling the organization a “bunch of alarmists” and “saber rattlers” for promoting the projection while South Korea was reporting a 0.7% COVID-19 fatality rate.

Siegel’s criticism of the WHO’s projected coronavirus death rate in March proved to be on point. Top WHO epidemiologist on COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said during a press conference in August that several studies pinned the COVID-19 fatality rate at 0.6%.

And Media Matters falsely accused Fox News host Sandra Smith of “covering” for Minnesota police on May 29 following the arrest of CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his camera crew. What Media Matters said was misinformation was in fact Smith accurately reporting that the police claimed Jimenez was asked to move and refused, that CNN denied the police’s claim and that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the arrest “unacceptable.”

Media Matters also accused Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch of spreading misinformation for issuing a letter in June saying in a letter that Fox “embraces and fosters diversity and inclusion.”

Examples of opinions that Media Matters flagged as Fox News misinformation include:

  • “Steve Doocy complains that Speaker Nancy Pelosi wore pink while signing articles of impeachment”;
  • “Hannity tells Fox & Friends that Republicans should again try to repeal Obamacare”;
  • “Fox contributor Marc Siegel praised Trump’s ‘leadership’ on coronavirus, saying, ‘I think it’s being managed well. The results speak for themselves’”;
  • “Fox & Friends and Mike Pompeo try to rebrand coronavirus as ‘the Wuhan virus’”;
  • “Fox News host criticizes Dr. Fauci’s quarantine recommendations: It will hurt businesses too much”;
  • “Tucker Carlson assures his viewers they ‘are not crazy’ for watching his show;”
  • “Carlson hosts Bartsool’s Dave Portnoy to talk about COVID-19 protocols during the pandemic. Days later, Portnoy would be under fire for years of racist remarks”;
  • “Brian Kilmeade touts the ‘discipline’ that Trump has shown ‘over the last ten days’”;
  • “Lou Dobbs attacks businesses for supporting Black Lives Matter”;
  • “Sean Hannity says states shouldn’t be allowed to have early voting until after the first debate”; and
  • “Fox contributor on a report that Trump paid $750 in income taxes: ‘Frankly, I don’t care.’”

Media Matters did, however, identify some examples of actual misinformation, such as when host Laura Ingraham said on Dec. 14 that COVID-19 is “less lethal than the flu.” World Health Organization epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said in August that studies pin the virus’s mortality rate at 0.6%, which is six times the rate of the seasonal flu’s 0.1% mortality rate.

The group also flagged legitimate instances of election-related misinformation on Fox News, such as the network’s multiple interviews with pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, who used her time on the air to push the conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump.

In a letter sent Monday to AT&T CEO John Stankey, California Democratic Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney cited another Media Matters study from July that claimed Fox News promoted coronavirus misinformation 253 times in a five-day period earlier that month.

Media Matters did not provide a full list of the 253 instances of supposed Fox News coronavirus misinformation from that five-day period. It did, however, disclose its methodology for the study, showing that it counted any statement that “valued the economy over public health” or that “pushed to reopen the economy or schools” as misinformation.

Media Matters did not respond to multiple requests for comment asking whether it would flag New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s comments during a press conference Friday that “schools must reopen” five days a week amid the pandemic as misinformation.

It’s also unclear whether Media Matters considers a February comment from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky that vaccinating teachers was not a prerequisite for reopening schools as an instance of coronavirus misinformation.

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