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Rolling Stone reports: As Donald Trump faces his third criminal indictment, Fox News has taken on the role of crisis spin room for the former president — with host Jesse Watters leading the herd. Since news of the indictment broke on Tuesday, Watters has grasped at every proverbial straw to excuse the ex-president’s actions in the aftermath of the 2020 …

“If Trump wins – after he pardons himself – welcome to the revenge tour. Oh, he’ll be out for blood. You think he’s going to let bygones be bygones? “He’s going to put his men at Justice and Clinton’s, Obama’s, the Pelosi’s, the Schiff’s, and yeah of course, the Biden’s, everyone will be legally assaulted. Their family members, providers, their …

“This is an incredibly weak, baseless, convoluted indictment. It is bizarrely centered around what is clearly protected speech, zero criminal statutes, because there are none that were applicable that are actually written into law. It is based on an obscure law from the Civil War. So let’s be even more clear. This indictment is frankly not worth the paper that …

“His crime was believing and saying that the election was rigged. That’s what they want to send him to jail for. Now, excuse me. How is that any different from when the Democrats complained that things were rigged in 2016? We all know what this is. This is just another in a long line of political hit jobs under the …

“They drop indictments like it’s no big deal. They interfere with the presidential election. They want to decide who the Republican nominee is going to be. And if I hear one more time, ‘Every time he’s indicted, his polls go up’ – with Republicans! But he still has to run in a general election. And trust me when I tell …

“Astonishingly, after these political war crimes have been perpetrated on him, Donald Trump is in the best position he’s been in so far to win reelection. Can you believe that? At which point, he’ll have to pardon himself immediately. And don’t you think for a second, he’s not going to unleash hell on all of his political enemies. This is …

“This is amazing timing, as the — Hunter’s plea deal falls apart, that suddenly these new charges on Trump just happened to arrive. And then, what about surveillance cameras? What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with — like, are those yours? Why can’t you clear them? I don’t understand that. They’re not like other people’s emails that you then, you …

Media Matters has the transcript: Joe Biden’s weaponized DOJ is at it again. Moments ago, they now officially piled on three more charges against former president Donald J. Trump, all related to the document case in Florida. This includes another count tied to the willful retention of government documents. Isn’t that what Joe did next to the Corvette, and at …

“It’s been happening for the last 15 years, and, you know, I ask them to come, and they come. I don’t know why, but they do. I just simply say a prayer. “That’s all I do, and, um, and they come, as crazy as it sounds. I think the government’s trying to figure out why this is happening. They have …

“He has incredible conspiracy theories that are just outrageous. Vaccines cause autism because they have Mercury preservative and they are worse than the diseases that they say they are going to save you from. “We haven’t used Mercury since 2001 in children’s vaccines. It was never used in the three most common vaccines on children. And no scientific evidence supports …

The Guardian reports: Far-right former Fox News host Tucker Carlson denies being racist – but says if he was, he would “just say so”. “Being racist is not a crime,” Carlson says in a new biography, Tucker, by Chadwick Moore. “Maybe [it is] a moral crime, but not a statutory crime – so if I was racist, I would just …

“Here’s the thing: Donald Trump was impeached for just talking about the Burisma scandal. It only seems fair to impeach Joe for participating in the Burisma scandal. But I hate impeachments because it’s all political team sport. Imagine in the Super Bowl one coach could stop the game by suing the other coach for trying to win. And that’s what …

The Guardian reports: Tucker Carlson “knows” he was fired by Fox News in April as a condition of the $787.5m settlement with Dominion Voting Systems regarding the broadcast of Donald Trump’s lie about election fraud, the former host says in a new book. “They agreed to take me off the air, my show off the air, as a condition of …

“This is really about control. That’s what it’s really about. The reason they want you to go from a gas stove to electric stove is, eventually they can control that stove. They’re already doing that in some towns in California – controlling the thermostats. They can turn it down when they want to. You look at electric cars, they’ll be …

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Remember we said we were talking about bombing the cartels? And people were going, “No, no, no, that’s an act of war, that’s in another country.” Yeah, but we do that to terrorists as well, and this is kind of a terrorist activity. And the thing is, now, we see this at …

Mediaite reports: As right-wing commentators carry on with their outrage over the Barbie movie, Fox News’s America’s Newsroom held a fascinating conversation about how the flick is storming the box office, particularly in the Red states. “I don’t know what’s going on down South,” Dana Perino said. “They like this Barbie movie a lot.” Bill Hemmer demanded they bring the …

“I’m not talking about the people on the air, but the people who are now running it are not the friends of our Constitution and our God, I believe. I think people just need to be aware that this is ESG, this is the World Economic Forum coming to roost. They are demanding their pound of flesh and they will …

“President Trump, keep your eye on the prize: 270 electoral votes. Everything you say, everything you do should be geared to winning in the states you need to win. This should be a 50-state campaign for America. Attacking popular Republican governors or senators in battleground states is more than unwise. It’s self-destructive. Why do it? Voters in a general election …

“The curriculum includes how Black slaves were able to use their experience in some cases to make their brutally hard lives better. The course examines the various duties and trades performed by slaves like agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation. ‘Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.’ …

The Washington Post reports: The former president has refused to commit to the Aug. 23 debate, and he indicated as recently as Sunday that he’s leaning against it. (“When you have a big lead, you don’t do it,” he told interviewer Maria Bartiromo.) So in the meantime, various hosts on Fox have taken it upon themselves to use the network’s …