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Anchor of and 's chief media correspondent. My book HOAX, the untold story of Trump and Fox News, is out Aug 25. Email: bstelter@gmail.com

New York City
Joined April 2008
Born September 03

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 9

    Trump's presidency began with a lie about his popularity -- the inauguration crowd size debacle -- and now it is ending the exact same way, with lie after lie about his popularity.

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  2. Barack Obama is closing in on the top spot on Amazon's chart of the best selling books of 2020. Only Mary Trump's tell-all and Delia Owens' novel are ahead of "A Promised Land." Obama is expected to hit No. 1 in the coming days... ()

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    15 minutes ago

    Fox suddenly finds itself in a position familiar to Republican officials: torn between reality and the whims of the fervent Trump base.

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    Election denialism suffered big blows on Monday. From Rush Limbaugh skewering Trump’s legal team to Laura Ingraham essentially admitting Trump lost, reality started to gain a foothold in right-wing media...

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  5. Whenever I hear a commentator talking about Biden "uniting the country," I change the channel, since there is no way to "unite the country" under these conditions

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    Let's permanently retire reporting on anonymous officials who are "privately concerned" or "quietly upset" about a status quo they do *nothing* about.

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  7. Monday night's media newsletter just landed 🛩 👀

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    1 hour ago

    This is already happening... the question now is what can we do about it

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    We identified the top 25 accounts that are spreading misinformation about the vote. To anyone paying attention, these accounts have been spreading falsehoods for years. Why does Facebook continues to give them "strikes"?

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  10. "You're basically going to have not just like 'two Americas,' in quotation marks, but you're literally going to have two Americas where half the country gives up on a lot of the work that we do and even starts to create its own social media and communication ecosystem..."

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    So far, predictions of elex catastrophe have fallen flat: No violence, no huge lines, no big problems with USPS nor mass numbers of voters with ballot errors. No efforts by GOP legislatures to interfere. Just Rudy with hair dye dripping on his face. Whimper, not bang.

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  12. Seems like this will be the go-to position for many GOP media stars

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    3 hours ago

    SCOOP: A host for OAN is assisting Trump’s legal team with their election overturning efforts, showing up at campaign HQs but never revealing it on air W/ and

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    No wonder some folks like Parler — it allows them to deny reality and be surrounded by other people who also deny reality.

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    4 hours ago

    "I'm exaggerating a bit," Rudy Giuliani says on Fox Business as he rails about unfounded voter fraud allegations in Detroit and Philadelphia.

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  16. In a message to GSA staffers, obtained by , Murphy says "The decision was solely mine. I was not directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official — including those who work at the White House or GSA — to delay this determination or to speed it up."

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    George H.W. Bush was known for his socks, maybe Biden will be too? Today he wore dark blue socks adorned with lighter blue dogs. (Yes, there are plenty of more substantive things to tweet about but we can have some fun sometimes too.)

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    What will Biden team find now that they can look under the hood of federal agencies after four yrs of Trump? DNI, EPA, DOJ, DOD, GSA...

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    . transition executive director calls GSA’s decision “a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track,” adds transition will start meeting w/fed officials soon

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  20. Holt lands the first interview with President-elect Biden:

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    5 hours ago

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Trump directs his team to cooperate on transition for President-elect Joe Biden but vows to keep up fight.

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