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Misleading Claims and Fact-Check Bias

PBS’s biased coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention began even before the main event, on Wednesday evening’s PBS News Hour, aiming not only to fact-check the Republicans but even to suggest some Republican voting “misinformation” could lead to “political violence.”

The tax-funded network’s first fact-check target was…reality TV star, Savannah Chrisley, who discussed her family’s legal woes in her speech. Lisa Desjardins, reporting from the convention floor, played the hypocrisy card before moving to the fact check.

Desjardins: But amid praise of Trump, on a night focused on law and order, Republicans generally ignored Trump’s own 34 felony convictions, except as evidence of what they see as a weaponized justice system.

Savannah Chrisley: Today, we have a two-faced justice system. Just look at what they’re doing to…

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