Mark Jacob: Fox News is assaulting our justice system

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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/fox-news-is-assaulting-our-justice

Fox News doesn’t want you to believe in our elections or our justice system. It wants you to simply give up on democracy and hand over the reins of power to rich Republicans.

This has been obvious for a long time and was made more so last week in Fox’s coverage of Donald Trump’s trial. The former president is charged with falsifying business records to hide his hush-money payment to a porn star in order to keep damaging facts away from the voters before the 2016 election.

Trump faces even more serious charges, of course. But Fox wants you to think Trump is charged with 88 felony counts in four different jurisdictions for no legitimate reason, even though the evidence revealed so far is damning.

In the first of those court cases to be heard, Fox is doing even worse than sowing doubt about the system: It has taken advantage of the transparency in court proceedings to turn the jurors into targets.

With no evidence, Fox host Jesse Watters accused Trump’s opponents last week of “trying to rig this jury” by installing “undercover liberal activists” as jurors. Then, in an apparent violation of a gag order, Trump shared Watters’ reckless accusation on his Truth Social account, deepening the damage.

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1. Jesse Watters should be charged with jury tampering along with whom ever put him up to call ....

… out one of the jurors who has since quit the jury out of fear of her life. Fox News really is
a cancer on America and should not be allowed to continue in its current form. Btw I don’t
think Watters is smart enough to pick out and publicly identify the juror on his own.