The next lie

Throughout the duration of the Manhattan hush-money trial, Fox News and the rest of MAGA Media have set the stage to absolve Trump in the historic case. 
Day after day, week after week, popular personalities such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Steve Bannon have lampooned the judicial system, portraying Trump as an innocent victim of political persecution. 
Inside this alternate media universe, the actual facts of the case never penetrate the bubble that shields its audiences from detrimental developments for Trump. 
Instead, alternate dishonest storylines are disseminated as the gospel truth. 
* [https://edition.cnn.com/business/media/fox-news-right-wing-media-trump-trial-verdict/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
== A “civil war” within the Republican Party? ==
Just minutes after Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts against him, I heard from a person close to the former president who described this moment as a “civil war” within the Republican Party.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said that Thursday was “a shameful day in American history” and that Trump’s conviction was “a purely political exercise, not a legal one.” 
Steve Scalise, another top Republican in Congress, said that America’s legal system was operating like a banana republic. 
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis compared the process to a “kangaroo court”.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio: “This is a quintessential show trial,” Rubio said. “This is what you see in communist countries. This is what I grew up having people in the [Cuban exile] community tell me about. It happened in the days after the Castro revolution.”
all cit: up to here https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck77xpkr0x8o
Former Vice President Mike Pence said the conviction of his former running mate Donald Trump on 34 felony counts is an outrage and “undermines confidence” in the American justice system, calling the charges “politically motivated.”"No one is above the law, but our courts must not become a tool to be used against political opponents. To millions of Americans, this was nothing more than a political prosecution driven by a Manhattan DA who ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president and this conviction undermines confidence in our system of justice,” he said in a statement on Friday.He added that the conviction “ends a terrible message to the wider world about the American justice system and only further divides us.”
Pence argued that Trump has “every right to appeal this conviction and I trust it will be overturned on appeal in a manner that will restore public confidence in our system of justice and equal treatment under the law."
== Literatur == 
* Kevin Arceneaux, Rory Truex: Donald Trump and the Lie. In: Perspectives on Politics 21, Heft 3 (2023) S. 863–879. 
* David T. Canon, Owen Sherman: Debunking the “Big Lie”: Election Administration in the 2020 Presidential Election. In: Presidential Studies Quarterly Presidential Studies Quarterly 51, Heft 3 (2021), S. 546–581. 
=== Weblinks === 
* Wikipedia: Wikipedia-Artikel zum Begriff der Big_Lie
* Engl.sprachige Wikipedia zum Begriff der Big_Lie
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