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After days of post-debate analysis, the grade for former president Donald Trump’s wild claims about infant executions, fearmongering about pet-eating migrants and Mad Libs-like invocation of “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” could not be any clearer:

A-plus! Come to think of it, is there a grade higher than A-plus? Fox News sure seems to be searching for one.

Dana Milbank reports that while basically all the rest of the media called the debate a solid victory for Vice President Kamala Harris, the network became “a case study in how the dominant ‘news’ organ of the right cleans up Trump’s messes.”

The quotes cited feel very Earth-2 to anyone not steeped in the right-wing ecosphere — “big win,” “best closing,”........

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