But those stories weren’t airing on Fox, because its primetime hosts were pushing what they saw as a much bigger scoop. The White House data in question concerned a Russian smartphone attempting access to the FBI when Barack Obama was president, not Trump. Once upon a time, this fabrication of a made-up political scandal by a major American TV outlet might have been a big deal. This week, the Guardian reported that as many as 15 people who voiced support for some or all of Trump’s Big Lie are running for these critical secretary-of-state positions in key battleground states — and that eight of them have formed an informal network of sharing strategy. Trumpism’s big lies have circumnavigated the globe again and again.

Source: Fox News February 18, 2022 00:47 UTC