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Eric Trump Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Animals’ at Tulsa Rally

Eric Trump Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Animals’ at Tulsa Rally

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWBefore his father took the stage for his , Eric Trump used his speech in front of the half-filled arena to call Black Lives Matter protesters “animals.”“We’re going to keep the moral fabric of this country,” he claimed, with wife Lara by his side. “Because when you watch the nonsense on TV, when you see these animals literally taking over our cities, burning down churches, this isn’t America. That’s not what Americans do.”He appeared to be referring to the small fire that was set and in the basement of St. John’s Episcopal Church in...

June 20, 2020
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Mike Pence Lies About Oklahoma’s COVID-19 Numbers Ahead of Trump Rally

Mike Pence Lies About Oklahoma’s COVID-19 Numbers Ahead of Trump Rally

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWDuring a White House roundtable meeting called “Fighting for America’s Seniors” on Monday afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence blatantly lied to reporters about the trajectory of COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma, where President Trump is scheduled to on Saturday.“In a very real sense, they’ve flattened the curve,” Pence claimed of that state. “And today their hospital capacity is abundant, the number of cases in Oklahoma has declined precipitously and we feel very confident going forward with the rally this coming weekend.”In fact, Oklahoma...

June 15, 2020
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Fox News Host Chris Wallace Confronts GOP Sen. Tim Scott With ‘Vicious’ Trump Tweets

Fox News Host Chris Wallace Confronts GOP Sen. Tim Scott With ‘Vicious’ Trump Tweets

Towards the end of his interview with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Sunday morning, forced his guest to reckon with the series of incendiary tweets President Donald Trump posted over the weekend as anti-police violence protests raged across the country. Paraphrasing his previous guest, , the Fox News Sunday host said, “We have to talk not only about what is going on in the riots in the street, we have to talk about what is going on among people at the highest levels of our society.”Wallace began with the tweet that for violating its policy against “glorifying violence.” Trump wrote, “These...

May 31, 2020
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Meghan McCain Opens Up About ‘The View’ Drama With Abby Huntsman and Whoopi Goldberg: ‘We All F*ck Up’

Meghan McCain Opens Up About ‘The View’ Drama With Abby Huntsman and Whoopi Goldberg: ‘We All F*ck Up’

Meghan McCain has mostly stayed quiet to date about the latest . But she had a lot to say on Wednesday night when she sat down with Andy Cohen on his Bravo late-night show . Cohen began by asking McCain about the rumors that she had been in a “feud” with fellow conservative co-host Abby Huntsman before she stepped down from the show earlier this month. As The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove , McCain and Huntsman got into an off-camera shouting match following an on-air segment about breastfeeding. McCain said that she is “still very good friends” with Huntsman but admitted that they did get into...

February 6, 2020
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Fox’s Chris Wallace: Trump Only Wants More Debates Because He’s Losing

Fox’s Chris Wallace: Trump Only Wants More Debates Because He’s Losing

Fox News host Chris Wallace has no illusions about why the Trump campaign is against former Vice President Joe Biden. After Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade echoed the president’s stated concerns about the debates happening after early voting starts in some states, his radio show guest shot down the idea of either moving the schedule up and adding a fourth debate earlier in September. “If they were to open it up and say, no, let's set another debate, I just think that it would jeopardize a lot of things,” Wallace, who moderated the third and final debate between Trump and...

August 6, 2020
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President Trump Lashes Out at Dr. Fauci for Explaining Science

President Trump Lashes Out at Dr. Fauci for Explaining Science

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWPresident Trump lashed out at his own administration’s infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Saturday. In response to a clip from Fauci’s , in which he explained why Europe has done a better job at containing the coronavirus than the United States has, Trump tweeted, “Wrong!”“We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000,” the president continued, pushing the false claim that cases in the U.S. are only rising because the country is testing more. “If we tested less, there would be less...

August 1, 2020
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Chris Wallace Schools Trump on Masks, Biden in Heated Fox News Interview

Chris Wallace Schools Trump on Masks, Biden in Heated Fox News Interview

“We talked about everything,” Chris Wallace told Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer on Friday afternoon, with President Donald Trump in nearly two years. The full interview will air on Fox News Sunday this weekend, but two short clips released in advance demonstrate how contentious it promises to be. Seated what appeared to be less than six feet apart, Wallace asked Trump if he regrets not earlier than this past weekend. “The CDC says if everyone wore a mask for four-to-six weeks, we could get this under control,” the host said of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now claimed more than 135,000...

July 18, 2020
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Seth MacFarlane Calls Out Oprah Over Coronavirus ‘Pseudoscience’ Pushers Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz

Seth MacFarlane Calls Out Oprah Over Coronavirus ‘Pseudoscience’ Pushers Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz

Coronavirus quarantine seems to have Seth MacFarlane more willing than ever to speak out against powerful figures in the media. Last week, the took on for her relentless campaign . Now, he has Oprah Winfrey in his sights. “Oprah has done some wonderfully altruistic things with her career, but the use of her platform to amplify the voices of dubious characters rather than legitimate scientists has been a disservice,” MacFarlane recently. “I hope she will lend her own powerful voice to correct it.” He included a link to that broke down how Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. Mehmet Oz—both of whom —have...

April 22, 2020
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Nancy Pelosi Calls Trump ‘Morbidly Obese’

Nancy Pelosi Calls Trump ‘Morbidly Obese’

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) described President Donald Trump as “morbidly obese” during an interview Monday night with Anderson Cooper on CNN. Asked by the anchor for her reaction to the news that the president is apparently as a prophylactic against COVID-19 against the recommendations of the FDA, Pelosi said, “I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group, morbidly obese, they say. So I think...

May 19, 2020
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Kellyanne Conway Shoots Down Fox News Poll on Fox News

Kellyanne Conway Shoots Down Fox News Poll on Fox News

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWKellyanne Conway appeared on Fox News Thursday night shortly after the network released its latest presidential poll that shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by 12 points, 50 percent to 38 percent nationally. In May, Biden led by eight points in that same poll. The White House counselor was quick to play down the poll’s significance, telling anchor Bret Baier, “I’ve been a pollster for many years and respectfully, we never did one single national poll when I was campaign manager of Trump/Pence 2016. Why? They are a colossal waste of...

June 19, 2020
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