THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2022

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Andrew Kaczynski

CNN’s KFile revealed on Monday that Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona Blake Masters, has continued to edit his website to “remove language” supporting former President Donald Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Masters also reportedly removed from his website “a section arguing the country would be better off if Trump was still the president.”

The report from Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck comes just days after NBC News first reported that Masters’s campaign website was scrubbed of the candidate’s pro-life positions.

KFile also reported the campaign removed language hinting at replacement theory.

KFile notes the site in early August read, “We need to get serious about election integrity. The 2020 election was a rotten mess — if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today and America would be so much better off.”

As of Monday, the website now only says, “We need to get serious about election integrity.”

On immigration, the website raged, “Joe Biden and Mark Kelly caused this crisis. They canceled the Border Wall construction. They invite illegals to come here and give them housing and cash. The Democrats dream of mass amnesty, because they want to import a new electorate.” KFile notes that the “last line” of that passage has since been deleted.

News of Masters’s website’s new softer tone, however, contradicted the candidate’s recent online activity.

On Monday, Masters blasted the Biden administration as the “affirmative action regime” – taking a jab at the diversity within Biden’s cabinet. Over the weekend, Masters offered a similar sentiment when he took a jab at what the Associated Press reported as unprecedented “female, Black, and gay” diversity at the Federal Reserve.

Solid reporting and a good catch by Kaczynski and KFile.

MEDIA LOSER:
Mollie Hemingway

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway claimed that President Joe Biden comparing the philosophy behind Trumpism to semi-fascism is “more hateful” than anything said by former President Donald Trump.

Hemingway, the editor of The Federalist and a renowned Trump booster, discussed Biden’s latest comments about the MAGA movement on Monday’s Outnumbered.

At a recent event with Democratic donors, Biden called out “extreme” Republicans, saying: “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

Those remarks have prompted outrage and hourly segments on Fox News. On Outnumbered, hosts noted that DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison defended the president, by arguing he was being frank about Republicans threatening to undermine elections. Just on Monday, Trump demanded he be named winner of the 2020 election, or that a new election be immediately held.

Hemingway — who once claimed America would no longer be a democratic republic if Trump lost the 2020 election — said the new comments from Biden demonstrate the president has “always had this underlying part of his personality that is basically just a jerk. He fights with people, he yells at them.”

She then claimed that Biden’s comments about the MAGA philosophy are “more hateful than the worst thing Donald Trump ever said,” arguing that the comments were a smear of his supporters

Trump, of course, is infamous for insults and incendiary rhetoric. There are too many examples to list. Trump has stoked violence, bragged about being able to sexually assault women and get away with it, accused Obama of being a Muslim, an called to ban Muslims from the country.

It's more than just dubious to claim that this characterization from Biden outstrips that extensive library, it's plainly absurd.

The A-Block

'There will be riots'

Former President Donald Trump went on a wild social media sharing spree on Tuesday and spread memes, insults, jokes, and, of course, conspiracy theories to his almost 4 million followers on Truth Social.

Trump’s flurry of social media activity resulted in some 60-plus posts by one count, one of which was a “re-truth” of a QAnon conspiracy theory “Q drop” – which are messages allegedly posted by “Q.”

The QAnon conspiracy is a far-right worldview and political movement that believes a Satanic cabal of elites and pedophiles is running a secret sex trafficking ring and has been conspiring against  Trump – who was supposed to defeat the cabal with a day of mass arrests and executions known as “the storm.”

“Yes, Donald Trump shared an actual Q drop today,” wrote NBC’s senior reporter Ben Collins, who covers the “dystopian beat.”

Trump also spread more conspiracy theories about Ray Epps, who many on the right have falsely linked to a baseless claim that the FBI was behind the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The former president also posted a “mean” photoshopped image of President Joe Biden and a meme attacking "RINOs."

It was a busy morning, to tell ya the Truth.


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RATINGS: Nicolle Wallace Tops the Competition at 4 PM, Dominates MSNBC Prime Time

Must See Clip

'It’s only once I started dating my husband'

Meghan Markle is back with another episode of her podcast, revealing the role that race played in her life once she began dating her now husband, Prince Harry.

Speaking with singer Mariah Carey on the Tuesday edition of her Archetypes podcast, Markle discussed the use of the term “diva” and their journeys as a mixed race woman in society. And she said she never really experienced being treated as Black woman until they got together. 

"Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a Black woman."

Links We Like

- Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review - James Antle, Washington Examiner - Andy Greene, Rolling Stone
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