'Increasingly goofy': Analyst hits Fox News' for efforts to spin Trump trial
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As Donald Trump's first criminal trial got underway, proceedings received extensive coverage in the media.But over at Fox News, the story is not the center of the news world — and the network's focus was more centered around Trump's grievances over the trial, which accuses him of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels. According to The Daily Beast's Justin Baragona, "The rest of the cable news landscape has devoted round-the-clock...

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