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'Absurd': Fox News columnist aligns with Black Lives Matter to defend Trump 74%
By Kathleen Culliton79%
7/25/2026, 1:00:07 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 28.4% saturation with 81 hits. Analysis detected 566 faulty-reasoning hits from 285 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.6% and a BS Rank of 74% (5,849 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.30% of the article peer group.
A Fox News columnist efforts to defend President Donald Trump Saturday morning saw him unwittingly align himself with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Mike Davis, founder of an organization that purports to " fight lawfare " on Trump's behalf, told Fox News readers they should be outraged by police brutality.
"If a police officer unlawfully beats a suspect without cause and violates his civil rights, that officer should face legal accountability," Davis told conservatives.
Davis made this call for police accountability as protesters take to the streets in Madison, Wisconsin, where Corey Ruiz was tackled, tased, kicked and fatally shot three times Wednesday.
While police say Ruiz, 38, pulled a knife, protesters who have taken to the streets contend the force was excessive.
About 200 protesters marched through Madison Thursday night chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "These killer cops have got to go."
His weeping mother told the media, "They took my baby from me."
So why did Davis alert his readers to the problem of police brutality?
Jack Smith — the special counsel who brought criminal charges against Trump, ahead of his 2025 reelection, on charges he mishandled classified documents and tried overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"Holding him accountable is not a threat to law enforcement; it is consistent with the rule of law," Davis said of his hypothetical violent officer.
"The same applies to rogue prosecutors like Smith.
"He tried and failed to alter the outcome of the 2024 presidential election by prosecuting President Trump across two jurisdictions on two absurd indictments," Davis claimed.
"It is inconceivable how holding him legally accountable for that conduct would threaten the Justice Department."
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