Why did Radio 4’s Today let a Trump backer lie continually without challenge?

That Donald Trump has “social media oligarchs” stacked against him, despite the fact that Twitter owner Elon Musk has donated £91million to his campaign and is heavily involved in the Republicans’ get out the vote operation;

That “the violence we’ve seen in this country comes from the left”, despite the January 6 riot and assault on the Capitol and the Charlottesville car attack;

That Hillary Clinton “did not accept the results” of the 2016 election, despite her phoning Trump to concede on the night of the election;

That Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has withdrawn from political funding in this election, is funding the Democrats’ campaign;

That campaign funding in American politics is “all on the left”, when the Republicans have been able to spend £3.2bn on TV adverts in this election (the Democrats have spent £3.86bn);

That the American media “is trying everything they can to make Kamala Haris win” – even after high-profile Harris endorsements were cancelled by the Washington Post and LA Times; and

That Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman turned Harris campaigner who currently holds no political office, is “putting all our sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters in harm’s way in [global] conflicts”.

Webb also did not mention that a Republican operative who accused Schlapp of sexual assault last year received £370,000 after dropping his lawsuit.

Schlapp has said that the claims were amplified by a “left wing media that is focused on the destruction of conservatives regardless of the truth”.

He can hardly make the same claim about Webb’s abysmally toothless interview.