In an overlay, Fox News has US President Joe Biden “wannabe dictator” called. A White House spokeswoman responded with a nasty innuendo.
The White House reacted with biting humor to an overlay by the right-wing news channel Fox News, in which US President Joe Biden was accused of the impeachment against his predecessor Donald Trump as a “wannabe dictator” was designated. “There are probably about 787 million things I can say about it”, Biden’s spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told journalists on Wednesday. But she didn’t want to go into the subject any further.
The number was apparently an allusion to the sum that Fox News has to pay to the voting machine manufacturer Dominion because of allegations of defamation. The right-wing broadcaster agreed to pay $787.5 million (around €730 million) in April after false allegations of voter fraud against Dominion in connection with the 2020 presidential election in order to avoid a last-minute defamation lawsuit. Dominion sued Fox News for $1.6 billion in damages.
Joe Biden as “wannabe dictator”
Fox News then caused a stir again on Tuesday evening after Trump, accused of the documents affair, pleaded not guilty to all charges in a federal court in Miami. The broadcaster blinded the sentence during a live broadcast of speeches by Biden and Trump “Would-be dictator speaks at the White House after arresting his political rival” a.
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Trump, who wants to run again in the 2024 presidential election, accuses the Biden administration of wanting to politically neutralize him with the federal judiciary indictment. Fox News seemed to agree with this interpretation with the overlay. “That was wrong”said Biden spokeswoman Jean-Pierre on Wednesday.
Sharp criticism on insertion
The Fox News overlay caused numerous critical comments on online platforms. Twitter users labeled the phrase as “ridiculous”, “incomprehensible” and proof that Fox News has a “Republican propaganda machine” may be. A user suggested that Biden sue the broadcaster. Fox News told the AFP news agency on Wednesday that the lower third was “immediately removed and addressed” been.
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Fox News had long reported very positively about Trump. The broadcaster, which belongs to the media empire of the controversial billionaire Rupert Murdoch, has distanced itself in part from the right-wing populist in recent years; However, given Trump’s great popularity with right-wing viewers, Fox News is taking a lurching course on the subject.
The fact that Fox News host Brian Kilmeade mistakenly called Trump Tuesday night also caused ridicule “Presidents of the United States” referred to, and not as a past president.
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