Trump-MAGA Erupt in Fury at CBS over Debate—Exposing a Big MAGA Scam

At the vice presidential debate, the CBS News moderators fact-checked one of JD Vance’s lies—and that was all it took to trigger an epic attack on CBS from Donald Trump and his MAGA allies. Which highlights a larger story: the degree to which Trump’s campaign is built on an immense superstructure of endless, shameless lying. Bullying the media into not fact-checking Trump and Vance is essential to that project. We talked to Jamison Foser, who writes about the media and the right on his Finding Gravity Substack , about the ways our institutions are capitulating to authoritarian attacks and threats—and what can be done in response. Listen to this episode here . A transcript is here .