With consumer confidence plunging and investors dumping stocks, the tone of the conservative media towards President Donald Trump and his economic policies has shifted.
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David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox 瓜神app as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad.
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