{"id":57353,"date":"2023-07-09T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57353"},"modified":"2023-07-09T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T19:55:23","slug":"fox-news-senior-trump-fluffer-maria-bartiromo-grills-desantis-on-a-flurry-of-fake-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57353","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, Grills DeSantis on a Flurry of Fake Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican presidential primary is fulfilling its promise to be this season&#8217;s most stupendous circus of silliness and psychopathy. It features a cast of Lilliputian candidates who are fighting to see who can be the most solicitous toward the GOP&#8217;s Dear Leader, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, Grills DeSantis on a Flurry of Fake Scandals%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57353\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-bartiromo-trump-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Maria Bartiromo\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only contender so far to have slithered out of single digits, other than Trump, is Florida&#8217;s aspiring authoritarian, Ron DeSantis, who is managing to lose to both Trump and Mickey Mouse. The DeSantis strategy appears to be focused on capturing the segment of the Republican electorate that thinks that Trump isn&#8217;t fascist enough and has too much charisma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56993\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeSantis Issues a Fascist Fatwa on Fox News to \u2018Destroy Leftism\u2019 \u2013 Meaning Millions of Americans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The DeSantis obsession with what he calls the <em>&#8220;woke mind virus&#8221;<\/em> has compelled him to reference that wholly manufactured disease in at least every other sentence. And on Sunday morning he took that anti-woke road show to Fox News, where he spends more time than he does in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>However, on this occasion, DeSantis came face to face with Fox&#8217;s most Trump-loving host, Maria Bartiromo. And she greeted him with something that was more of a confrontation than an interview. Each utterance of her repeated inquiries as to what DeSantis would do was like a challenge that assumed he wouldn&#8217;t do anything significant <em>(video below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think one of the reasons that Donald Trump is in the lead is because of the corruption and the unfairness of our justice system. I want to know what you&#8217;re going to do. What are you going to do about the fact that the FBI worked with Twitter to censor information, amplify lies and suppress truth? What are you going to do about this influence peddling that we see is in plain sight that the Biden family has been doing allegedly, for now, more than a decade? What can you do to straighten things out now that Americans are sick and tired of the corruption they see in plain sight?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To support her undisguised bias in favor of Trump, Bartiromo&#8217;s question enumerated a series of fictional scandals. The first of which was her belief that the American justice system is corrupt and unfair simply because it has recently endeavored to hold Trump accountable for his multitude of crimes. That&#8217;s straight out of Trump&#8217;s hyperbolic and hostile <em>&#8220;Playbook of Pathetic and Vicious Victimhood.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57349\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Says \u2018Deranged\u2019 Special Counsel Staged Photo of Trump with Suspected Obama Stalker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bartiromo continued with her inquisition asserting such fallacies as <em>&#8220;the FBI worked with Twitter to censor information.&#8221;<\/em> That was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55794\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proved to be a flagrant lie promoted by Elon Musk and Fox News<\/a><\/strong>. Then she alleged that there was <em>&#8220;influence peddling&#8221;<\/em> by the Biden family <em>&#8220;that we see is in plain sight.&#8221;<\/em> Which was just <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57329\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another evidence-free conspiracy theory advanced by Republicans in Congress<\/a><\/strong>. And finally, Bartiromo whined that the American people are <em>&#8220;sick and tired of the corruption&#8221;<\/em> that she attributes to the Biden administration. The nation is indeed sick and tired of corruption, but most Americans believe that it is Trump who is responsible for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57338\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TRUTH THIS: More Americans \u2013 Including 25% of Republicans \u2013 Believe that Trump is Guilty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For his part, DeSantis responded to Bartiromo by dodging every one of her questions. He never said what he would actually do about any the phony issues she raised. He merely agreed with her allegations and muttered vaguely that he would fix whatever the heck she thought was wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8221;We will end the weaponization of government, [&#8230;] And I look back at like the Hunter Biden censorship, which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election. And yet, you know, those were Donald Trump&#8217;s own agencies that were colluding with big tech.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What wasn&#8217;t said was that everything that DeSantis and Bartiromo are complaining about took place during the Trump administration by people that he appointed. So in effect, they are alleging that Trump colluded against himself. It&#8217;s a bold and bizarre strategy. But it&#8217;s the only one they have. And while it might work on Trump&#8217;s cult disciples, it will further alienate the rest of the electorate. So expect more of the same as the primary proceeds. And enjoy the battle between DeSantis and Trump as they try to out-crazy each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56568\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Presidential Poll Reveals Why Ron DeSantis is the Only 2024 Opponent that Trump is Attacking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeSantis: I look back at the Hunter Biden censorship which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election. And yet, you know, those were Donald Trump&#39;s own agencies that were colluding with big tech. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iBzEobrHzP\">pic.twitter.com\/iBzEobrHzP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1678067656161722368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican presidential primary is fulfilling its promise to be this season&#8217;s most stupendous circus of silliness and psychopathy. It features a cast of Lilliputian candidates who are fighting to see who can be the most solicitous toward the GOP&#8217;s Dear Leader, Donald Trump. Click here to Tweet this article The only contender so far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,1140,33,1112,301,1420],"class_list":["post-57353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-republicans","tag-ron-desantis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-bartiromo-trump-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eV3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56993,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56993","url_meta":{"origin":57353,"position":0},"title":"DeSantis Issues a Fascist Fatwa on Fox News to &#8216;Destroy Leftism&#8217; &#8211; Meaning Millions of Americans","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/29\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The race to the bottom in the 2024 Republican presidential primary continues apace now that Ron DeSantis is officially a candidate. 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