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Media Matters weekly newsletter, September 5

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Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: 

  • Fox pushes Trump to send troops to Chicago. 
  • MAGA media caves to Trump, ignoring the Jeffrey Epstein story. 
  • Right-wing media cheer as Trump accelerates hostilities with Venezuela.
  • MAGA media personalities are holding a conference this weekend in South Korea to kickstart a “Korean MAGA” movement — personalities that defended the former Korean president’s use of martial law and pushed wild conspiracy theories about Korean politics. 
  • While the Trump administration considers new restrictions to H-1B visas, right-wing media have railed against the program and called for its eradication.  

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