Historian and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat is sounding the alarm over the fact that Fox News appears to be coordinating with former President Donald Trump on his trial defense talking points. This comes after Media Matters for America’s Matt Gertz noted that at 9:18 am, Trump proclaimed that law professor Jonathan Turley and former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy are “great lawyers and legal scholars, every single one says there is no crime” — and then just three minutes later, Fox News brought Turley and McCarthy on to discuss his criminal trial in Manhattan. “Authoritarian party p…