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'What will Fox News pay?' Attorney says network owes a price for tricking Trump into war

Fox Didn’t Cover the War. It Helped Manufacture It.The Real Center of PowerThe source story is about a column by Sabrina Haake arguing that Fox News and its hawkish hosts helped drive Donald Trump toward war with Iran. That is the frame worth keeping: not “coverage,” but influence. Fox is not a bystander here. It operates as an informal policy arm for a president who has merged spectacle, grievance, and state power into one feedback loop.The institutional power sits with Trump, because only he can order strikes and turn television bluster into military action. But the network helped shape the…

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