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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

The president’s DC takeover once again lays bare the Trump-Fox feedback loop

Flanked by a coterie of former Fox News hosts Monday morning, Donald Trump waved printouts of supposed crime statistics he had cribbed from a Fox News broadcast to justify his federal takeover of Washington, claiming that the city was more dangerous than other capitals around the globe.

“Washington, D.C., is less safe than some capital cities in third-world countries,” Will Cain had breathlessly intoned during a Fox News segment five days earlier.

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