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Bannon predicted that Trump will declare a national emergency on elections the last week of August. "It's coming," he said last night. Guest Wayne Allyn Root had previously said that Trump's declaration would come in Aug or Sept and claims to have been in direct contact with the president about it
Steve Bannon predicts Trump will issue national security declaration on elections in late Augustwww.mediamatters.orgSome MAGA pundits have scaled back their maximalist goals from the start of the Iran war, revealing a growing despondency among that cohort. EG, Benny Johnson has gone from wanting to rebrand the Strait of Hormuz in America's image to acquiescing to Iranian control if it brings gas prices down
The growing MAGA media despondency over the Iran war quagmirewww.mediamatters.orgI spoke with @wajali.bsky.social about the Trump admin's plot to subvert the midterms, & how it is inseparable from the anti-immigrant bigotry that animates MAGA media. The racist "great replacement" theory braids election denialism and nativism together and they need to be understood as one issue
This is the GOP's Plan to Steal the ElectionLike helpful Bond supervillains, Trump and Republicans have already shared and begun their plans to try to steal or subvert the upcoming elections. How come nobody is stopping them?thelefthook.substack.comAs Trump's war with Iran congeals into a state of "no war, no peace, no ceasefire, no shipping" (with "more war" the most likely next option) it's remarkable to go back to what right-wing pundits were saying in March. It was "Mission Accomplished" nearly everywhere you looked
As the Iran war teeters on the brink, let's revisit the numerous "Mission Accomplished" moments from right-wing media in early Marchwww.mediamatters.orgThis appears to be part of an emerging plot that has three stages: 1) release documents purportedly showing foreign interference (probably China) in US elections, 2) declare a national emergency, 3) issue an executive order along the lines of the SAVE America Act. More context here
The plot to subvert the midterms is getting stranger and more dangerouswww.mediamatters.orgAaron Ruparit's even dumber than you think
Former Colorado election official Tina Peters has been on a right-wing media tour since leaving prison. She's talked extensively about meeting with Trump in the White House and urging him to sign executive orders to curtail voting rights. Appears to be part of a larger plot to subvert the midterms
Tina Peters' right-wing media tour: Endless conspiracy theories about voter fraud and boasts about advising Trump on how to fix itwww.mediamatters.orgThis is a weird one but stay with me. It seems that Steve Bannon, John Solomon, Cleta Mitchell, and two top officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are forming a plot to subvert the midterm elections by declaring Chinese interference in US elections as a national emergency
The plot to subvert the midterms is getting stranger and more dangerouswww.mediamatters.orgRight-wing podcaster Steve Stern, who hosts calls with election deniers, praised Christina Norton when she ran the RNC's so-called election integrity shop in 2024. Stern complimented her a few times on Bannon's show. She's now a top official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
New top intelligence official Christina Norton was praised in election conspiracy theory discussions on Steve Bannon’s podcastwww.mediamatters.orgSnide response is these people are losers who can’t win shit (correct) but the more substantive take is they are capital’s bulwark against rising working class power and that’s a legitimate problem given the US system
Axios"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack
Right-wing media figures, especially in Murdoch world, are furious at the MOU between the US and Iran. A Fox contributor said: "This doesn't feel like a victory." No, no it doesn't, because it isn't.
The right-wing media revolt against Trump’s proposed MOU with Iranwww.mediamatters.orgThe feedback loop between Trump and Fox News has been a defining feature of the Iran war. Now, the network's hawks may get the escalation they've wanted since the paper-thin ceasefire started in early April
Fox’s Iran hawks are getting the escalation they’ve wantedwww.mediamatters.orgAn ill-conceived, short but brutal bombing campaign? Why, wherever could Trump have gotten that idea?
Fox News is selling Trump the fantasy that he could defeat Iran in “two weeks"www.mediamatters.orgAxiosNEW: President Trump held a Situation Room meeting this afternoon to discuss potential new strikes against Iran. Sources said one option Trump is considering is launching an operation that is big in scale but short in duration.
Whatever Trump ends up doing next, it's worth noting that his semi-official advisors at Fox News have spent months telling him he can achieve a military victory over Iran in two weeks
Fox News is selling Trump the fantasy that he could defeat Iran in “two weeks"www.mediamatters.orgAaron RuparTRUMP: We're gonna be attacking Iran, and attacking them very hard. REPORTER: Resuming bombing? TRUMP: Yeah. We are.
Several talking heads at Fox News have spent months selling Trump on the fantasy that victory in Iran is a mere "two weeks" away, if only he'd unleash the U.S. and Israeli militaries. No reason to believe it but it's all the more worrisome given Trump's promise to retaliate for the downed helicopter
Fox News is selling Trump the fantasy that he could defeat Iran in “two weeks"www.mediamatters.orgThere's a right-wing media campaign to discredit the Medicaid home health care program, which millions of people with disabilities & elderly people rely on. It's the same playbook the right used to go after day care centers in MN -- this time in OH, also targeting Somali communities there
Right-wing media’s focus on fraud paves the way for cuts to Medicaid home healthcare serviceswww.mediamatters.orgThere are flashing red signals in energy markets, but right-wing media figures are doing everything they can to reassure their audiences the higher costs will be short-lived. Some are appealing to notion of shared sacrifice to prop up this unprovoked and profoundly stupid war (my words, not theirs)
Oil executives warn of imminent price spike as right-wing media downplay riskswww.mediamatters.orgRight-wing media figures are doing everything they can to support the Trump administration's efforts to enact regime change in Cuba
Right-wing media team up with the Trump administration to sell regime change in Cubawww.mediamatters.orgFox News just can't stop pushing Trump to start bombing Iran again
Fox News figures continue to push Trump to bomb Iran amid ceasefire negotiationswww.mediamatters.org