How conservative media reacted to the Donald Trump indictment

📆 6/9/2023 10:01 PM
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“A dark day in America,” Fox News host Sean Hannity said. “Peak Witch Hunt” blared the red headline on Breitbart. The Trump talking points — the prosecution is unfair, the indictment amounting to “election interference” — echoed across conservative media.

“Well, they did it, and how dare they — they indicted him again,” fulminated Greg Kelly, a prime time host on Newsmax, a smaller cable channel that has attempted to outflank Fox on the right. He added: “This will not derail Donald Trump, no way.”

The Trump talking points — the prosecution is unfair, Democrats are guilty of similar crimes, the indictment amounts to 2024 “election interference” — quickly echoed across Trump-partisan media. It was a replay of the reaction to Trump’s first indictment, in March, by prosecutors in New York City in connection to alleged hush-money payoffs to an adult-film star.

She did not note a critical difference: that Trump had resisted efforts by the National Archives to retrieve classified documents for months, compelling the government to seek a subpoena to get the material back. Biden and Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, appear to have cooperated in efforts to return classified documents in their possession.

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