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 Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via GettyBillionaire Bill Ackman spent days after the ABC presidential debate promoting false claims that a network "whistleblower" had allegedly uncovered collusion between ABC and Kamala Harris' campaign. Now, a month and multiple denials later, he sees the claims differently.
"It seems pretty clear that the alleged @abc whistleblower debate story claiming that @KamalaHarris was given questions in advance and other advantages was a fake," Ackman posted on X alongside a blog post by Megyn Kelly discussing the dubious claims.
What Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, did not acknowledge, however, is that he was one of falsehood's early boosters. After an X account named "Black Insurrectionist" claimed it had been in touch with a whistleblower who alleged the Harris campaign had been given debate topics ahead of the showdown with Donald Trump and had demanded Trump—and Trump alone—be fact-checked.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 MSNBCMSNBC's Chris Hayes called out Fox News for not showing the full context of Donald Trump's "enemy within" comments during Vice President Kamala Harris' interview on the network earlier Wednesday.
The anchor of All In opened his broadcast by calling attention to something that Harris herself did in the sit-down with Fox's Bret Baier. The clip that the right-wing network showed to Harris as part of Baier's question was of Trump during his all-female town hall event in Georgia—the one where Trump bizarrely argued he was the "father of IVF."
In the clip that Fox aired directly to Harris during her interview, Trump wasn't heard talking about how former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Rep. Adam Schiff are the "enemy within." Instead, Fox made it so Harris had to react to him talking more mildly about "phony investigations." The network omitted Trump's line about "the enemy within."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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