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“You know, you share stuff like a couple of hundred COVID tests with the guy in Russia, and you know what it does? Maybe it prevents a war. A little gesture like that can prevent a war. “Maybe that’s one of the reasons why 62% of the American people believe that there would be no war in Ukraine — Putin …

“The media does this interesting thing where they’ll take one little thing and pretend that’s the entire story, as if Republicans spreading misinformation is the entire story of this hurricane response. Meanwhile, you have people who are like, ‘Is my government coming to help me? Is anyone coming to help me?’ “Thankfully, there are people on the ground there and …

“I am wondering, like, why do they not care how bad she is? They don’t care. Because they’re not worried. I feel like the machine is at work getting everything in place for a repeat of 2020 and they’re placating us and keeping us busy. “I go back to that Time Magazine article, you know, that chronicled the secret cabal …

The Daily Beast reports: Republican Rep. French Hill shut down Fox News host Maria Bartiromo’s false on-air claim that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is “out of money” to handle crises in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and with the looming threat of Hurricane Milton. During Hill’s Tuesday appearance on Fox Business, Bartiromo slammed President Joe Biden, saying that …

“What drives them crazy is that they can’t control you. And it’s why they’re trying to silence Donald Trump by any means necessary because his success is an indictment of them, their incompetence, their sedition, their authoritarianism. This election’s a battle for survival. It’s not just about Trump. It’s about the future of the country and whether it will remain …

“Imagine losing your house, your transportation, basic necessities, and women looking for diapers. Most stores, by the way, in the area are wiped out. “And all you’re getting right now is a $750 check she referenced from the federal government? The government you have been sending taxes to for your entire life? “Yeah, and where they gonna buy that baby …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) weighed in on the deadly hurricane which wreaked havoc in her state of Georgia and across the southern United States on Thursday, suggesting that the hurricane had been controlled. After the Hurricane Helene death toll rose to over 200, Greene wrote in a social media post, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s …

Fox News host Jesse Watters posts to X: Over 200 Americans are dead after Hurricane Helene and the thousands of victims impacted have been disgracefully left behind. The Biden administration has blocked ongoing rescue operations and North Carolina is living in the dark ages because JoeBiden and KamalaHarris hate ElonMusk, FEMA is now out of money, because Joe Biden and …

“They described it as a vast shadow effort, an organized collection of operatives that changed voting systems and laws, secured hundreds of millions of dollars in public and private funding. “They recruited, you know, armies of poll workers, got millions to vote by mail. Then they went after disinformation, they pressured social media companies, they called that election protection. “So …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham used the occasion of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate to promote a company selling gold products. On Sept. 17 and 22, she tweeted the same link while urging followers to “protect” themselves against a potential Harris presidency. The link takes readers to a page featuring a photo of Ingraham and the words, “Now is …

Mediaite reports: Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo amplified a story from far-right fake news website The Gateway Pundit about election fraud, citing an article alleging that Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes may be trying to “hide” a potential “election integrity problem” in Arizona. The article on the website quotes Arizona GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda [photo], who raised suspicion over …

“Trump jokes that he’ll be dictator on day one, they’re not joking. They want to be dictator for life. Listen to them. This is the party that wants to go into your home, take your gun, take your money before you sell your stock, and then ban the kind of car you want to drive. “If you want to know …

The Washington Post reports: The voting technology company Smartmatic and the conservative cable channel Newsmax have reached a settlement, averting a defamation trial that would have begun Monday over allegations that Newsmax personalities and guests spread lies about the 2020 election and Smartmatic’s role in it. Details of the “confidential” settlement were not released. The settlement came on the first …

“Trump met with senior Pentagon officials with a directive to protect property and people, and — including using the National Guard, and it was ignored. “This is a contradiction of the DOD IG report, so people need to know that. If you’re going to ask questions about that, you know — the whole commission was designed for this election. “It …

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG GUTFELD (HOST): We are talking about the ones flown in — JEANINE PIRRO (HOST): How are they Americans? They’re not legal. They’re not citizens. TARLOV: They are here legally, I’m sorry, they are not Americans. GUTFELD: An interesting scam. They fly in — they’re flying in thousands of people, they are flying them in …

“I don’t trust CNN and nobody should do. They did a big story. They went snooping around his — they found an email address and they think they tracked it to a porn site where he may or may not have been active a dozen years ago when he was a private citizen and a forklift operator. “OK? A forklift …

Mediaite reports: Fox News co-host and professional wrestler Tyrus presented former President Donald Trump with his own wrestling championship belt on Wednesday during a special episode of Gutfeld. “Oh wow. I like that,” reacted Trump. “Now I’m really happy. That’s a real– oh, that’s a good one.” “It’s the man who makes all the professional ones,” Tyrus replied. Trump praised …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Doesn’t Jerome Powell often talk about the independence of the Federal Reserve? And how convenient, for the first time in four years, just before — weeks before an election, just as early voting begins in Pennsylvania now and around the country, let’s drop interest rates and give people the impression that everything’s …

“These people have pulled out no stops, all stops, to portray January 6, 2021, the riot at the Capitol, as being the worst terrorist attacks since Pearl Harbor, worse than 9/11. This was completely ignoring the BLM Antifa violence that terrorized American citizens for months in 2020 and, you know, as opposed to what was really just an inconvenience for …

The Guardian reports: A false claim circulating on social media that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation, according to new research by Microsoft. Researchers found that the group created a video, paid an actor to appear as the alleged victim, and spread the claim …