{"id":623848,"date":"2023-03-30T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/conservative-media-figures-leap-to-trumps-defense\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:31:00","slug":"conservative-media-figures-leap-to-trumps-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/conservative-media-figures-leap-to-trumps-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative media figures leap to Trump’s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK \u2014 Conservative media figures leaped to Donald Trump\u2019s defense with apocalyptic language Thursday, claiming the former president was being unfairly persecuted by a Manhattan grand jury\u2019s indictment and predicting his 2024 bid for the White House would get a boost from his perceived martyrdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is totally unacceptable and a disgrace to this country,\u201d said Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is repulsive,\u201d said Fox\u2019s Sean Hannity, three days after he interviewed Trump on his show. \u201cThis is a disgusting political hit job the likes of which we have never seen in this country anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s insane,\u201d said Newsmax\u2019s Eric Bolling.<\/p>\n

The actual charges in the grand jury indictment against Trump have not been made public. The Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office has investigated payments made during the 2016 presidential election to silence claims of an extramarital affair.<\/p>\n

For conservative-oriented media, Thursday\u2019s fury represented a rapid turnaround. Trump had recently complained of being looked over by Fox, by far the most popular media outlet for conservatives, and had not appeared there for an interview in months before Hannity spoke to him earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a horrible night for the republic, but politically it\u2019s a great night for Donald Trump,\u201d commentator Pete Hegseth said, predicting that mug shots of the former president would be proudly displayed in college dorm rooms and on T-shirts.<\/p>\n

Hannity had a live studio audience Thursday evening that frequently shouted and clapped as he and his guests railed against the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg. Fox and Newsmax aired wall-to-wall coverage, and guests seemed to compete for who could use the most heated language. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham used an unbleeped obscenity to talk about the charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrat party has now dragged the country into tyranny!\u201d commentator Mark Levin shouted.<\/p>\n

Several conspiratorial commentators suggested to viewers that unnamed authorities would come after them when they were done with Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody\u2019s going to do something stupid,\u201d disc jockey Adam Carolla said to Fox\u2019s Tucker Carlson, \u201cand then the storm troopers are going to come in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want you to strike out. Why?\u201d asked Glenn Beck. \u201cBecause then they can close the cage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beck, let go by Fox in 2013 by the late CEO Roger Ailes, appeared on Carlson\u2019s show to suggest that the U.S. would be at war with China, Russia and Iran by 2025 and that the country\u2019s currency would collapse.<\/p>\n

Several commentators ridiculed or dismissed the charges against Trump, even though they have yet to be publicly outlined. \u201cThis attorney general will be defending his law license before this is over,\u201d commentator Chris Swecker told Fox\u2019s Laura Ingraham.<\/p>\n

Former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka, on Newsmax, said the Secret Service had a duty to protect the former president and not let him appear for an arraignment in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extremists are out there,\u201d he said, \u201cand they want to hurt this man.\u201d<\/p>\n

A headline on Fox\u2019s screen under Carlson said that \u201cTrump\u2019s Indictment is a Turning Point for America.\u201d Another said, \u201cThird-World Banana Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican politics (has been) thrown into complete chaos, perhaps permanently,\u201d Carlson said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Newsmax stationed reporter Mike Carter outside of Trump Plaza, who called it \u201cpretty much a normal Thursday night\u201d except for reporters hanging around and \u201ca few folks that are excited about what happened tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Online, the Drudge Report topped its home page with a picture of handcuffs.<\/p>\n

The lead headline on Breitbart.com was \u201cThe Longest Witch Hunt: Trump Indicted.\u201d Another headline asked \u201cNext: Mugshot – and Handcuffs?\u201d over a picture of Trump with a clenched fist.<\/p>\n

If Trump turns himself in next week as expected, experts anticipate a carefully choreographed and relatively quick process and release without bail. A former president isn\u2019t likely to be paraded in cuffs across a sidewalk or through a crowded courthouse hallway.<\/p>\n

Many right-wing sites were slow to respond to the story late Thursday, said Howard Polskin, who chronicles conservative media on his own website, \u201cThe Righting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the stories I saw were essentially plain-vanilla reporting that an indictment was handed down,\u201d Polskin said, adding he expected that to change through the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n David Bauder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Conservative media figures leaped to Donald Trump\u2019s defense with apocalyptic language Thursday, claiming the former president was being unfairly persecuted by a Manhattan grand jury\u2019s indictment and predicting his 2024 bid for the White House would get a boost from his perceived martyrdom. \u201cThis is totally unacceptable and a disgrace to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[768,534,1125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-623848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conservative","8":"category-financial","9":"category-media"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}