Fox host Trey Gowdy: Most Americans would say mainstream media is a bigger threat than Russia or Iran to American democracy
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Citation From the September 5, 2024, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
TREY GOWDY (FOX NEWS HOST): This is the way I break it down Dana: So it looks like Russia likes Trump and Iran likes Harris, okay? There is a difference between interference and preference. I am more worried about the fact that if you ask most of our fellow citizens what the greatest threat to our democracy is, they wouldn't say Russia or Iran. They would say it is the mainstream media in this country, which you just proved with that previous story you did with Lindsey Graham and Amazon. Those two answers are, are baffling. Then you combine that with Google or Meta or whatever they call themselves and this -- the Hunter Biden laptop where 50 different so-called intelligence experts countermanded what John Ratcliffe said, which was this was actually not Russian disinformation. So if I'm an American, yeah, I kind of expect Russia and Iran to want to mess with us and sow the seeds of discord. I really don't expect it to be The New York Times and The Washington Post and Politico. But I'll bet you most Americans would say they fear that more than they do foreign interference.