Behind the scenes at OAN: The TV network where Trump is always right

The first week of October ended in chaos, as reporters pieced together the spread of the coronavirus among White House officials and the condition of a hospitalised Donald Trump, who was removed from Walter Reed medical centre to wave at supporters from a secret service escort while on an experimental drug regimen.

But on the One America News Network, the president’s illness was just another day in his term. The US is rooting for him to get back into the White House and the president’s rival Joe Biden wears a mask as a “political prop”.

Embraced by the president and aired inside the west wing, the young right-wing news channel launched in 2013 as a counter to “mainstream media” networks, but it found its audience two years later while airing then-candidate Trump’s campaign rallies.