Seth Meyers Rages at Fox News for Pushing Trump’s 2020 Election Lies
The night after Election Day, Seth Meyers went deep with a 21-minute “A Closer Look” at President Donald Trump’s inevitable but still shocking attempts to stop every vote from being counted and steal victory away from Joe Biden. And he reserved much of his outrage for Fox News.
As the Late Night host put it, Trump and Fox News have been “priming their audience” with lies about voter fraud for weeks. “And now the moment is here and they’re taking the outrageous and unprecedented step of falsely declaring victory before all the votes are counted.”
“It’s an authoritarian movement intent on detonating our democracy and turning it into an autocracy with a healthy sprinkling of psychosis,” Meyers continued. And he was particularly unnerved by the reaction on Fox to the president’s “incoherent and insane” late-night speech in which he prematurely and falsely declared victory.