Please don't seek the answers on Fox 'news'

The Marines use to say the brass sometimes like to treat the troops like mushrooms -- keep them in the dark and shovel a lot of manure on them. I truly believe Fox “news” has made this a cottage industry with the MAGA crowd. And so, while I know this is an exercise in futility, I will undertake it anyway because I believe at the end of the day, facts do matter, if only for the sake of posterity.

A writer in the Sunday Naples News asked a series of slanted and misleading questions about the discovery of classified documents in Mr. Biden’s possession. I know responding is most likely futile because we have reached a point in our politics where the only way to get most MAGA Republicans to admit to anything being true that does not fit into the MAGA narrative is to place them under oath. Possible jail time seems to bring rare moments of clarity to Trump acolytes.

I offer as evidence the tunes now being sung by the January 6 defendants or the recent case of Fox "News” Sean Hannity, who, once forced to testify, famously said under oath that he did not believe for one second Mr. Trump’s false claims that Mr. Trump was cheated out of victory in the 2020 presidential election by a voting tech company. Yet, following the 2020 election, Mr. Hannity hosted countless guests who, unchallenged by him, spouted the lie. Go figure.

First, it should be stated unequivocally that the mishandling of classified or national security documents is wrong,...

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