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The Headwinds that Await a ‘Trump TV’

Does the departing president really want to tie himself to just one television network?

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on TV monitors in the media filing room during the last 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nev., October 19, 2016.

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Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax recently aired segments that debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines altering votes from Trump to Biden, shortly after Smartmatic and Dominion raised the prospect of legal action for reporting what they said was false information about them.

“We demand that Fox issue a retraction to make clear that there is simply no evidence to support the conspiracy theories that continue to smear the company’s good name,” Dominion lawyers Thomas Clare and Megan Meier wrote in a letter to Fox News’ general counsel. “Going forward, we insist that you ensure that any stories about Dominion are thoroughly fact-checked and vetted by experienced editors. And to the extent that Fox intends to publish any claims about Dominion, we ask that you provide us with the specific details of all such claims sufficiently in advance of publication so that we have a reasonable opportunity to respond to them.”

Jim Geraghty

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Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.

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