Daily Beast: “Former President Donald Trump kicked off a right-wing media tour on Wednesday, hitting up One America News, Newsmax, and Fox News for phone interviews after being largely absent from the public eye since leaving the White House. And while the disgraced ex-president continued to spread debunked election conspiracies during a pair of pre-taped interviews with Newsmax and OAN on Wednesday night, Trump steered clear of directly mentioning the voting software companies that had been at the heart of his most deranged voter fraud lies.”
“According to a source familiar with the matter, Trump has recently been reminded that he shouldn’t mention, and definitely not call out by name, Dominion Voting Systems or Smartmatic during new media interviews or public appearances. Earlier in the day, the former president broke his weeks-long media silence when he called into Fox News to talk about conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh’s death from lung cancer. The Wednesday afternoon Fox chat, which eventually devolved into Trump peddling the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him, was his first television interview since before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that he incited.”