More significant by far is the insight into the role of Fox News in the transformation of the Republican Party into an increasingly fascistic party. There was zero evidence to support this claim, and in emails and text messages both the Fox executives and the program hosts ridiculed Powell and Giuliani as “crazy” and their claims as without foundation. The reservations expressed by Fox executives were not about the obvious conflict between the facts of the election, which Biden won handily, and the demented claims of the Trump campaign. Trump tried to get on the Lou Dobbs program, which began at 5 p.m. on Fox, and called the network for that purpose. Network executives began to get cold feet, however, as it looked as though the attack had failed.
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