"...[F]or both Trump and Fox News, profit triumphed over patriotism.
"Trump’s campaign used the 'big lie' to raise $250 million after the election, according to the committee’s findings. Much of the money was supposed to go to an 'Official Election Defense Fund,' but no such fund existed. Instead, the big beneficiary was the Save America political action committee that Trump controls. According to Jan. 6 committee researchers, more than $200,000 found its way to the bottom line of the Trump Hotel Collection.
"Who could have guessed that a big pot of money would be found at the heart of this whole sordid affair? Anyone remotely familiar with Trump’s modus operandi over his entire career, that’s who.
"As
for Fox, the network at least covered Monday’s hearing — unlike
Thursday, when the network not only ignored the committee’s
curtain-raiser but also went so far as to eliminate commercial breaks,
when viewers might have been tempted to change the channel. All the
other major cable news and broadcast channels covered Thursday’s session
wall to wall. The 'big lie' business is so big that it’s apparently
worth sacrificing a night’s worth of prime-time advertising revenue to
maintain it." -- Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post.
