The majority of what’s in the news has focused on TFG’s first criminal trial but there are other issues we may have missed and of course, items you would like to share. So, please feel free to post any newsworthy items we may have missed. Normally, I would ask you to post your comments about the TFG criminal trial on our thread, but today is different because MAGAts are now spreading FAKE NEWS and gaslighting…see below.
Updates:
President Biden/Biden Administration:
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From the MarKODA Files-The Fake News/Shithole/McGaslighting Edition:
Setting the Record Straight:
False right-wing reports about Trump trial jury instructions fuel threats against judge
False reporting and social media commentary about the jury instructions in Trump’s hush money trial has spurred calls for the assassination of the judge overseeing the case.
False reports about the jury instructions in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial have been spreading across right-wing media, leading to threats against the judge overseeing the case.
Several conservative news personalities, including some affiliated with Fox News, falsely claimed that Judge Juan Merchan, as one Fox News anchor put it in a viral post on X, “told the jury that they do not need unanimity to convict” Trump.
That’s not true. Merchan instructed the jury on Wednesday that they “must conclude unanimously that a defendant conspired to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means,” adding that they “need not be unanimous as to what those unlawful means were.”
