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Fox News Hires a Trump Family Member to Host a Saturday Night Show

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Former Republican National Committee co-chair—and Trump's daughter-in-law—Lara Trump will host a new show on Fox beginning later this month.Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/ZUMA

A new pro-Trump mouthpiece is set to join Fox News as a host later this month: His son Eric’s wife and former Republican National Committee co-chair, Lara Trump.

The network announced Wednesday that beginning February 22, she will host a new Saturday night show called “My View with Lara Trump,” airing from 9 to 10 p.m. EST. The news release announcing the new hire makes clear that—as my colleague Mark Follman put it—the network is essentially state media at this point. The release states, “‘My View with Lara Trump’ will focus on the return of common sense to all corners of American life as the country ushers in a new era of practicality.”

“Common sense” has also been the go-to term used by the Trump White House to describe everything from erasing LGBTQ and people of color from public life and American history, to letting an unelected billionaire overhaul government, to contextualizing his racist explanation for the

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