Actually pretty impressive. Boris Epshteyn is the Chief Political Analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group. The Sinclair Broadcasting Group — the pro-Trump media conglomerate — is taking over local television. And it’s now using its reach to spread a counternarrative that the media and liberals are playing up the heartbreaking consequences of separating immigrant families at the border. Sinclair regularly forces its 193 local stations to air a segment by former Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn. His most recent segment (flagged by Media Matters) took on the family separation crisis on the border that has dominated the news for several days.

The crisis was sparked by the Trump administration’s recent decisions to jail asylum-seeking parents for illegally crossing the border, which led to their children being separated into large cages in detention centers. (Things are looking up though, military bases will be used to house them-though I pity them if they go to some of the unused space at the military bases I was at in Texas.

Epshteyn, using his Sinclair-sponsored platform, says such stories may just be the work of anti-Trump liberals. Epshteyn then applauds Trump for stopping family separation with an executive order — “President Trump has correctly decided to step in and sign an executive order that will stop the separation of children from their families at the border” — without mentioning that it was Trump who implemented the policy in the first place.

The gaslighting by Sinclair is epic, pushing the "There is someone behind the curtain and the horrific stories you are watching aren't real-what's real is anyone who isn't Trumptard Nation is manufacturing this to hurt our dear leader" story. The owner of a group of car dealerships-a hard core Republican amigo-called it when he called it "Trump Network but definitely not my Republican network."

Sinclair currently owns 193 stations, which reach 39 percent of US viewers. It might soon reach 72 percent of Americans if its purchase of Tribune Media goes through.

Brings back the promo Sinclair aired in March in which they pushed that all news not from them was fake news and shouldn't be trusted-parroting the Trump doctrine.