Fox News Busted As Fake News As Fox Worked With Trump On Seth Rich Conspiracy Story

[dbackjon]

The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The explosive claim is part of the lawsuit filed against Fox News by Rod Wheeler, a longtime paid commentator for the news network. The suit was obtained exclusively by NPR.

Wheeler alleges Fox News and the Trump supporter intended to deflect public attention from growing concern about the administration's ties to the Russian government. His suit charges that a Fox News reporter created quotations out of thin air and attributed them to him to propel her story.

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The lawsuit focuses particular attention on the role of the Trump supporter, Ed Butowsky, in weaving the story. He is a wealthy Dallas investor and unpaid Fox commentator on financial matters, who has emerged as a reliable Republican surrogate in recent years. Butowsky offered to pay for Wheeler to investigate the death of the DNC aide, Seth Rich, on behalf of his grieving parents in Omaha.

On April 20, a month before the story ran, Butowsky and Wheeler — the investor and the investigator — met at the White House with then Press Secretary Sean Spicer to brief him on what they were uncovering.

The first page of the lawsuit quotes a voicemail and text from Butowsky boasting that President Trump himself had reviewed drafts of the Fox News story just before it went to air and was published.

Spicer now tells NPR that he took the meeting as a favor to Butowsky, a reliable Republican voice. Spicer says he was unaware of any contact involving the president. Butowsky now tells NPR he was kidding about Trump's involvement.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/01/ ... story.html

[Gil Dobie]

Some one still watches FOX News, lol

[JohnStOnge]

I don't know if the White House was involved but I will say that the Seth Rich story was one I looked at while shaking my head at how Trump supporters and those on the "right" pointed to the mainstream media as "fake news." The "fake news" problem is on the "right" at this time. And it's a serious problem.

I saw all kinds of "Seth Rich" stuff on Facebook with Trump Zombies posting it in a "LOOK AT THIS!!!!" way and it had "fake news" written all over it right from the start. But these people were lapping it up.

I say that as a person who would be categorized by most as on the "right." My "side" has serious issues with being honest about what is real and what is fake right now.