Newsmax Floods The Zone Again After Another Trump Rally -ConWebBlog

Newsmax ran a Jan. 6 wire article that injected some reality into Donald Trump’s ranting before the Iowa caucuses:

The visit [to Sioux Center, Iowa] came the day before the third anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021. Trump did not acknowledge the date Friday, but railed against the treatment of those who have been jailed for participating in the protest, labeling them “hostages” and saying it will “go down as one of the saddest things in the history of our country.”

More than 1,230 people have been charged with federal crimes for their participation, including felonies like assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

Trump also asked at one point in Sioux Center whether there was anyone in the friendly room who wasn’t planning to vote for him, but then quickly warned them not to raise their hands.

“They’re going to say he incited an insurrection,” he said to laughs.

And over and over, he repeated his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen — the same lies that motivated the rioters.

That was followed by a relatively normal article by Jim Thomas on another Trump claim:

Former President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on rival Nikki Haley during a rally in Iowa on Friday, aiming at her rising popularity in polls and questioning her campaign’s financial backing.

Trump said, “Nikki Haley’s campaign is being funded by Biden donors,” and later labeled her a “globalist.”

That sense of reality wouldn’t last, of course. Sandy Fitzgerald was in full Trump-fluffing mode in a later Jan. 6 article:

Former President Donald Trump, speaking in Clinton, Iowa, on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 protests at the U.S. Capitol drew cheers when he called on President Joe Biden to release those who have been imprisoned on charges stemming from that day.

“They’ve suffered enough,” Trump said Saturday night in a rally that aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax.

“They have to release them. I call them hostages … Release the J-6 hostages, Joe. Release them, Joe. You can do it real easy, Joe.”

Fitzgerald made no mention of the crimes the Capitol rioters committed that caused them to be in jail — instead, she gushed that Trump “pointed out that during the Black Lives Matter protests and riots during the summer of 2020, he took action.” The rest of the Newsmax crew was the same way, flooding the zone with its usual barrage of articles featuring isolated quotes from a Trump rally that day — which, of course, they are more than happy to tell you “aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax2 online streaming application”:

Flooding the zone with Trump articles after a rally — even though everything could easily fit into just one article — is a common Newsmax tactic.

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