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Jim Acosta warns: Trump is 'trying to lay a trap for the networks’

Trump Is Using the Oval Office as a Megaphone for a Conspiracy WarThe SetupThe reporting here is simple: Trump is preparing an Oval Office speech that the White House says will concern “free and fair elections,” while everyone else expects a rerun of 2020 fraud mythology. The interesting fact is not the speech itself. It is the machinery around it: networks trapped between amplifying falsehoods and provoking the White House, with the FCC under Brendan Carr already opening investigations into broadcasters.Where Power Actually SitsThe power is not with the networks. It is with Trump, who can…

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