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MAGA rep's astonishing smear of Dem stirs defamation fears: 'This is actual malice’
U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) speaks during the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., September 9, 2026. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The Smear Is the Strategy
A Lawmaker and a Television Network
The essential fact is not that Representative Anna Paulina Luna became “confused” about Abdul El-Sayed’s record or Hasan Piker’s rhetoric. It is that a federal officeholder used Fox News to attach two inflammatory falsehoods—Islamic rule and sexual violence—to political opponents.
Luna holds congressional power. Fox controls a national broadcast platform. El-Sayed, the…
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