Fox News is having difficulty trying to repair its reputation after spending months airing the unfounded conspiracy theories of election fraud that culminated in the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“In the days after the presidential election, an entire ecosystem emerged to bolster President Donald Trump’s false claims that rampant fraud had mired the election results. No credible evidence of significant fraud existed at the time, just as no credible evidence to that end exists today. For Trump and his allies, though, hyping sketchy, unfounded allegations served to strengthen Trump’s efforts to somehow overturn the will of the electorate and generated an enormous amount of attention from a Republican base eager to wrench victory from the jaws of reality,” The Washington Post’s Philip Bump explainedTuesday.
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