As Russia started launching an attack on Ukraine, Fox News allowed Donald Trump to call in and blame the invasion on a "rigged election"

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"It all happened because of a rigged election. This would have never happened," the former president told Laura Ingraham. After Trump brought up his "rigged election" line, Ingraham ended the interview and pivoted to comments made by Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's permanent representative to the United Nations. "President Trump, we actually have — just, hold on, I'm so sorry to interrupt you — but have, we're going to the Pentagon, I believe?" Ingraham said. "Ukraine, sorry. Ukraine is speaking at the UN." As Media Matters' John Whitehouse points out, while CNN and MSNBC covered Kyslytsya's dramatic speech, Fox News viewers missed most of it. "The network skipped over most of the speech to instead let host Laura Ingraham gab with former President Donald Trump – fresh off praising Putin’s moves – about trivial nonsense in the face of what is likely to be a very deadly war," says John Whitehouse. "That wasn’t all. Ingraham also used the hour to mock Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for what she called a “pathetic” display giving a speech urging peace between Ukraine and Russia. She also linked the Mueller investigation to the invasion. This is in addition to all of Tucker Carlson’s well-documented and ongoing propaganda about Russia and Putin."

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