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Arwa Mahdawi has this for us today, asking: Is this the death of Fox News’s love affair with Donald Trump?
Poor Donald Trump. Not only has he lost the election, it looks as if he has lost the love of his life. I’m not talking about Melania – although some rumours have it that she is “counting the minutes” until she can get a divorce (which she has denied). I’m talking about Fox News.
For years, Trump and Fox News have been in a committed, loving relationship. Recently, however, there has been trouble in paradise, with Trump complaining the network is a “much different place than it used to be”. The relationship might have been salvaged, but then Fox News did something unforgivable: it flirted with real journalism. On election day, it was the first major outlet to declare Joe Biden would win Arizona, sending the Trump administration into a meltdown. Since then, Fox News has continued to infuriate the White House by refusing to encourage Trump’s delusion that he won the election. On Monday, for example, it cut away from the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, when she claimed that the Democrats had encouraged voter fraud. “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” the Fox News anchor said to the viewers. “I can’t in good countenance continue showing you this.”
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Here’s a reminder of how the two sides have been approaching this election outcome. Joe Biden described the reaction of Donald Trump and the Republicans as ‘an embarrassment’. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo meanwhile, baselessly spoke about ‘a second Trump administration’. He may have had a slight twinkle in his eye as he said it.
