‘Political germ warfare’: rightwing media fervently defend Trump

Pundits lined up to compare Trump charges to criminalizing thoughts' and the dropping of fifteen dozen' atomic bombs

After he was indicted for the third time, Donald Trump reacted with his now-standard, twin-pronged approach: first, expressing outrage and denying the charges, and second, asking his many loyal supporters for money.

But the former US president, who faces four charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, also found defenders among rightwing media in America which has often fervently defended him, sometimes flying in the face of reality to do so.