During remarks this week, #Trump said he wanted to “pay tribute” to a person he very much respected.
Trump thanked #TomHoman, who served as acting director of #ICE during Trump’s admin [Trump loved “acting” posts bc they aren’t subject to congressional confirmation] & has since been a frequent commentator on #FauxNews.
#Trump’s open-armed association w/the group — & his intensifying focus on migrants & crime on the campaign trail — provide one of the clearest windows yet into a potential 2nd term & the hard-liners he might appoint to #DHS to enforce #immigration#law.
In campaign rallies & interviews w/ #Newsmax & #FauxNews, Trump has said he’d put #TomHoman & others back into a potential 2nd admin “to have great border security.”
Qatari royal invested ~$50M in pro #Trump network #Newsmax
Before & after the investment, snr newsroom ldrs urged Newsmax staff to soften coverage of #Qatar, current & fmr employees said
A member of the Qatari royal family invested ~$50 million in Newsmax, acc/to docs & representatives for the #FarRight#media co & the royal, in a moment of acute #MiddleEast tensions during the #Trump admin.
In 2019 & 2020, Sheikh Sultan bin Jassim Al Thani, a fmr Qatari govt ofcl & the owner of a London-based investment fund, Heritage Advisors, invested in #Newsmax. The investment has not been previously reported.
Newsmax was looking for outside investors to better compete w/its much larger rival, #FoxNews, acc/to people who spoke at the time w/its founder & CEO, #ChristopherRuddy. Before & after the investment, snr newsroom ldrs urged staff to soften coverage of #Qatar….
A rep for #Newsmax disputed that the network “slanted coverage to be favorable to #Qatar”….
Newsmax & Heritage Advisors confirmed the investment after being presented w/documents detailing the transaction, which show that Sultan subsequently transferred his stake to a #CaymanIslands based corporate structure. The $50M investment represents a significant minority stake in Newsmax, a privately held #media company estimated to be worth between $100M & $200M, acc/to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
The docs came from a trove of ~100k leaked files from #GenesisTrust, a #CaymanIslands based financial services provider, which were obtained by the International Consortium of #Investigative#Journalists & reviewed by WaPo.
Among the docs were internal forms prepared by Genesis that proposed the corporate structure would be “set up with the intention of benefiting the State of #Qatar.”
“A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in #Newsmax ..in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during #Trump admin. The investment bolstered a key conservative media outlet at a time when #Qatar was facing intense diplomatic pressure from its neighbors & seeking allies in US” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/qatar-newsmax-investment/
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That's Normal, Right?
NO.... but maybe folks are encouraged to look the other way
The medicine RU-486 #mifepristone has been proven to be useful and needed
🤔And getting sworn in at Harlan Crow's place, that's normal too yeah? 🤭
That gigantic fireplace♨️ (see image with kid in front of it) is big enough (I wouldn't know this) to be used to dispose a body. But today a pen and a few news sites are the tools of the trade #foxnews#newsmax#oan
Right, (if I had a nickel for every time I heard this, 😄) "when people tell you who they are, believe them!" 💯
Im thinking that the average Republican #maga as an example calling to #washingtonjournal#CSPANWJ and (IMO) not realizing that when they calmly say, things that are not true, mostly from the #foxtv#newsmax#oan opinions from the shows. It's possible ( #maddow believes this) they don't realize they are saying "we don't need no stinking democracy
#Newsmax adds a disclaimer at the end of #Trump’s rally: The president mentioned in his speech, the 2020 elections. Newsmax as a network believes the results were legal and final.
According to #Newsmax gremlin #GregKelly, everyone needs to stop idolizing #TaylorSwift because the #Bible, but somehow idolizing Trump is divine. The hypocrisy and absurdity are truly boundless.
@Josh
I was publicly against the #NewsMax account that was created on #NewsieSocial a while ago. I have tooted against it and I've tooted to #News outlets on that server informing them of the situation and suggesting they would be better off with their own instance, as done by @themarkup.
I wish I could celebrate news of the departure of the single most malign influence in English-speaking democracy, Rupert Murdoch, but I fear Fox will only be worse under son Lachlan & that this is a means to solidify his power before Dad's death.
We have Murdoch to curse for giving us Trump, Brexit, and a right-wing news monopoly in much of Australia. I also blame him for launching media's war against the internet--because he was pissed off he failed so badly online, a story rarely told. 1/
Speaking of crap other than Fox and #newsmax there are the Republican phone callers to #washingtonjournal#CSPANWJ who output the fox badness, so horrible they are only #factchecked 10% of the time if that
ugh I have been getting some spam in the last month to email. Look what just showed up. I am not going to block. I am going to wait and see what mail they send me -- I smell class action lawsuit if this turns out to be a crammed subscription to #Newsmax#FakeNews
Ask your Fox-watching friends if they’ve seen stories about Rep. Lauren Boebert publicly groping with her date and vaping at a public performance of Beetlejuice, all with kids present. Bet they’ll look at you blankly because Fox has simply not aired the story since it broke according to media watchers.
Fox knows Boebert is in a district she nearly lost in 2022, and that the road to the House majority might run through Colorado’s 3rd. The network isn’t “fair and balanced.” That’s a joke. Fox is warped and twisted, just like the party it services.
Pro-tip: change the content controls on home cable systems so technologically challenged folks can’t access Fox. You might just save them from being sucked in further.