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Laura Ingraham let plenty of false claims from John Eastman fly in her two-part interview with him — except one

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Autobot wasn't great with this article. Basically you can say whatever you want as long as you don't bring up voting fraud since that resulted in a huge settlement against Fox News.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This version of the bot is pretty bad. It often misses the major facts of an article and copies over random paragraphs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The conversation, which aired in two parts on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, was predictably genial, with Ingraham allowing Eastman to make dubious claims without significant pushback.

The attorney who tried his best to help Trump find a legal loophole to escape eviction from the White House has repeatedly endorsed debunked and nonsensical assertions about fraud in the 2020 election.

You know, like the thing about boxes of ballots being under a table in Georgia or the laughable assertions of Dinesh D’Souza’s film “2000 Mules.” Stuff that good-faith observers of the election should have set aside long ago.

A more significant one is that Trump and his allies used the delay triggered by the riot to continue to cajole legislators to block the electors from states won by Joe Biden.

“Some people had urged that Vice President Pence simply had power to reject electors whose certification was still pending,” Eastman said later in the Fox News interview, prompting Ingraham to say that she didn’t agree with that argument.

“Lee received a two-page memo from the White House on Saturday, January 2, authored by legal scholar John Eastman,” Woodward and Costa write later.


The original article contains 1,263 words, the summary contains 191 words. Saved 85%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago