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How Fox News helped champion Trump’s attacks on Iran: ‘I agree with the president’

Media | The Guardian · Adam Gabbatt · last updated

Network was awash with fawning praise after the strikes, as a series of guests lined up to cheer on the president

The US bombing of Iran last weekend prompted sober reporting from the mainstream US media, along with considered discussion of whether the US had violated international law in attacking a foreign country.

Fox News, however, took a different tack, championing a war that, according to reports, it had helped convince Donald Trump to start.

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