National security attorney Bradley Moss on Friday argued that Trump supporters' stunned reaction to the former president's guilty verdict is a direct reflection of their media consumption.
Specifically, Moss argued that right-wing media outlets have been systematically misleading their viewers in their coverage of former President Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial.
"I almost feel bad for Trump’s base that lives and breathes based on what they hear from Newsmax, Fox News and talk radio," wrote Moss on Twitter.
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"They’ve been fed a steady stream of legal garbage for the last 14 months. Over and over they were told by 'legal scholars' that the case was falling apart. That someone was intervening to save Trump. That there was no case. There was no crime. The Trump legal team was destroying the prosecutor’s case."'
This bubble of illusion came to a crashing halt on Thursday afternoon when a jury of Trump's peers found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up his hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
"Reality sank in yesterday afternoon and they don’t know how to process it," he argued. "It’s like Election Day 2020 all over again."
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After the 2020 presidential election, Trump refused to concede defeat and began pushing wild conspiracy theories to validate false claims about the election being "stolen" from him.
One of the most infamous conspiracy theories came from Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, whose false claims about Dominion Voting Systems originated from a Minnesota woman who believes she can speak with the wind.
These false stolen election claims all culminated in the deadly riots at the United States Capitol in which Trump supporters stormed the building in an effort to block the certification of President Joe Biden's victory.
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