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Chapter 1: Why is Fox News struggling with Trump's behavior?
Clean up on aisle three. Fox is just in a spiral right now. As Donald Trump keeps saying more dangerous and psychotic things, Fox has to be state-run regime media. They got a cover for him, right? So they have to hit their beats every day. So one of the beats they wanted to hit over the past 24 hours is there really shouldn't be any opposition or strong opposition to Donald Trump.
You just got to live with it, people. Live with it. So this is what Sean Hannity said here. Play this clip.
Chapter 2: What did Sean Hannity say about elections?
You know, Joe, all these years I've been doing this, there have been elections that the candidate of my choice didn't win. And you know what? I didn't go out there and start singing. I didn't start saying F them, F them. I didn't go out there and say we're the resistance, a constitutional crisis. No. You know what? I pointed out their flaws and and and fought for better ideas.
Chapter 3: How is Fox News addressing Trump's Gaza comments?
Then as Donald Trump talks about conquering Gaza or just taking Gaza and occupying it and forcing all the Palestinians to go into countries that are not agreeing to accept Palestinians and engage in this horrific ethnic cleansing and Trump's bragging about it and calling it a real estate deal, Fox is trying to get its viewers to be like, yeah, let's do it.
So they have Jesse Waters, who's like their xenophobe in chief, and he starts saying, look, that what makes Palestinians such a threat is that they have far more babies than the people in Israel. Here, just play this clip. Let's play it.
But this population in Palestine is hostile. It's uneducated. It's even more radicalized than they were at the beginning of this. I mean, now they have no homes at all. They're even more hateful of the Israelis. And their birth rate is explosive. The average Palestinian woman has five and a half babies. The average Israeli woman has only two and a half babies.
So demographically, they're a threat, not to mention the national security threat. There is no way you can have these two peoples living side by side.
All right. So then they move on to this issue of impoundment. Right. This is what Donald Trump and his regime is setting up for before the Supreme Court by trying to cut off all government funding to essentially all of the agencies they don't like, which is basically impoundment. All of the agencies. Impoundment. It is what it sounds like.
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Chapter 4: What is Trump's plan for government impoundment?
Trump wants to impound, take the funds that Congress appropriated and keep it for himself. Rule like a dictator. So he gets to decide where it goes. So Fox is starting to talk about, and by the way, where do you think it goes? Probably to, he said it, a sovereign wealth fund for him and Elon Musk to buy things for him and Elon Musk so Trump could rule over
like Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin or MBS in Saudi Arabia. I mean, that's what they're saying. That's what Donald Trump wants. So Ted Cruz then goes on Fox and he says the quiet part out loud. He goes, well, I think the Trump administration, they're teeing up a challenge to bring back impoundment. OK, first off, what do you mean bring it back? It's unlawful.
Chapter 5: How does Ted Cruz justify Trump's impoundment strategy?
It's a violative of the law here. But play this clip.
Listen, what President Trump and Elon Musk are doing is they are trying to rein in the out of control spending. And in terms of the constitution, there is a long history of presidents exercising a power called impoundment. As you know, I do a podcast every week called Verdict with Ted Cruz. Yesterday's podcast does a deep dive explaining what Trump and Elon are doing.
But you look at impoundment, Thomas Jefferson first exercised impoundment in 1801. And I think the Trump administration is teeing up a legal challenge to bring back impoundment, to turn around spending and debt. And that's a very good thing for American taxpayers.
So that was one of the messages that they wanted out today, right? I mean, they have to, message number one, there shouldn't be opposition. Let's all just kind of get along and let him do his thing, right? Because Fox knows that resistance is growing. There's protests that are happening. Corporate media is covering it up. We're addressing it here.
The other thing is we got to justify Donald Trump saying he's got to conquer Palestinians. So let's just talk about that they give birth to too many babies, right? So then they do that. Then impoundment, boom. They bring on Russ Vogt, architect of Project 2025, who runs the Office of Management and Budget for Donald Trump. And here he talks about impoundment again. Here, play this clip.
You know what? If Congress says build a bridge for a billion dollars and Mr. Trump says, no, no, I can do it cheaper at 500 million, why not impound the unused 500 million?
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Chapter 6: What is Fox's response to Trump's court losses?
Well, look, Larry, the president has recognized that 200 years of presidents had the ability to impound funds. And as a result, we're able to do a far better job of being able to control costs. And what we see at the end of fiscal year is agencies have the normal bureaucracy approach to use it or lose it.
what the impoundment control act does is come on and say look if you're trying to save money in the end of the fourth quarter and do things smartly oh my gosh that's that that's something that is a violation of the impoundment control act and what we see at the end of the fourth quarter is flat screen tvs and copy machines in the halls of every agency because they're just trying to push it out the door
The president is well aware of the authority that other presidents have had, and he has put forward on the campaign trail ideas on that front. We don't have anything to announce today, but this is certainly something he's well aware of the power that should exist with the executive branch.
But then Fox has to pivot to their next message, which is that this is, by the way, all out of the fascist playbook. You see, I'm going through the fascist playbook right now, one by one. So then they have to go to Donald Trump needs to defy court orders because
Republican courts, Democrat courts, meaning judges who have been appointed by Democratic presidents, judges who have been appointed by Republican presidents, including judges appointed by Donald Trump. They've ruled against Trump over and over and over again. Trump keeps losing in court.
So as he keeps losing and these judges are issuing nationwide injunctions because what Trump is doing is so unlawful. Now they attack the judges. So now Fox pushes the message, okay, these judges are defying the Constitution and we should start not following what courts do.
Watch. These judges are getting silly. I don't know how and when this is going to be resolved, but there's a certain, you know, it's a preposterous notion that political appointees can't see it. And that says it's preposterous that outsiders or now employees of the government like Elon Musk can't do their job and search for fraud. I do not understand this.
And I think a lot of people are scratching their heads, Russ.
Well, it defies common sense. It defies the Constitution. But the reality is this has been a key pillar of the Democrats' administrative state. And one of their principles is that career individuals and not political appointees are the ones that they want to rely on making decisions and shielding those of us who are political appointees from the actual information that we need
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