Download Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

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Network
of Lies The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald
Trump,
and
the
Battle
for
American
Democracy
Description
Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal
settlements
to bury
the contents of this 8220esential8230grnding,
momentum- building8221(The New York Times)
account of the network8217sblatant attempts to
manipulate the truth, mislead
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the public, and influence our elections8212frm
the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.The
ongoing criminal trials of Donald Trump are also
a trial for the nation he once led. We are
undergoing a stress test of American democracy,
the rule of law, and the very notion of a shared
political reality. Can we achieve accountability
for premeditated assaults on democracy and what
forms should accountability take? In Network of
Lies, New York Times bestselling author Brian
Stelter answers these questions by weaving
together private texts, unpublished emails,
depositions, and other primary sources to tell
the chilling story of Trump8217salleged
conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, and the
right-wing media8217smission to put him back in
office in 2024. Trump couldn8217thave convinced
millions of Americans of the Big Lie without Fox
News. From the moment Joe Biden became
president-elect in 2020, Fox hosts fueled a fire
of misinformation and violence by spreading
Trump8217stales of election fraud and
suppressing the truth. Come January, Sean Hannity
insisted Trump needed to stop listening to
8220crzy people8221who swore he could stay in
power, but it was too late8212thusands of
Trump8217sdeluded followers had stormed the
Capitol and Trump operatives had breached
Dominion Voting Systems8217voting machines in
Georgia. Now, the 2020 lies are at the center of
numerous indictments and his reelection campaign,
but Trump is not the only one under fire. The
once-untouchable Rupert Murdoch has been held
accountable. Dominion8217slegal war, chronicled
in-depth for the first time here, revealed that
the ninety-two-year-old Fox chairman knew
Trump8217slies were dangerous but he allowed
the lies to fill Fox8217sairwaves because, as
his 8220pan sponge8221Suzanne Scott admitted,
telling the truth was 8220bafor
business.8221Network of Lies goes inside the
chat rooms, board rooms, and court rooms where
the pro-Trump media8217sgreed and selfishness
were exposed. Featuring Stelter8217s8220throug
h and damning8221(The New York Times)
investigative prowess and direct quotations
so shocking they read like fiction, Network of
Lies is the definitive origin story of
Trump8217sattempt to tear down the guardrails
of American democracy, and an urgent plea to
learn from past mistakes as we head into
20248217spivotal presidential election.