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The White House created a media bias tracker: https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
The claims seem to be rather... specious. Also, there are somehow 10 "Repeat Offenders" with only one offense. And it's trashy, Hanania-was-right-about-conservatives web design.
But what are they trying to accomplish? Are they just trolling, or does Trump actually think this will be a way to launder his grievances with the press through a "reliable source?"
Unfortunately, there is no further information. One would think that the point of a fact-checking website is to provide evidence. This seems to be the article.
Now, the claim was not made by ABC News/Goldberg, and seems factually correct. But don't let this legal trickery get into the way of our narrative. The Trump administration is clearly persecuted by the left-wing mainstream media in a way which is at least twice as bad as what the Nazis did to the Jews.
This story.
The only part which mentions the Trump administration is this:
(my emphasis)
Really, the perfidy of the woke left knows no bounds. Here we have a perfect feel-good story about a murdery rapey illegal from El Salvador, and they have to ruin it by calling him "undocumented" and claiming that ICE raids targeted immigrant communities.
On the other hand, this whole website was probably created by an intern with Grok in half an hour.
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