Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. The assault on the American justice system was swift and savage. On Fox, the historic legal action was portrayed as President Joe Biden weaponizing the Justice Department to target his political opponent. In effect, Fox News is once again platforming those who are leading vicious and irresponsible attacks on the country’s criminal justice system. Across the right-wing media ecosystem, the narrative that a sinister deep-state was unfairly targeting Trump to knock him out of the 2024 presidential contest was pervasive.

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Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden weaponizing, “ BIDEN, INDICTS, ” Sean Hannity, Hannity, ”, Fox, Trump, HUNT, Breitbart, Rupert Murdoch Organizations: New York CNN, Fox News, MAGA, Fox, Justice Department, Trump, Voting Systems, U.S . Capitol Locations: New York, America, U.S