Fox News is covering up for President Donald Trump after House Democrats released emails on Wednesday from Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious convicted sex offender, in which Epstein wrote in 2011 that an unnamed victim “spent hours at my house with” Trump and wrote of the president in 2019: “Of course he knew about the girls.”
The president’s propaganda network had not addressed the story on its airwaves through noon ET, even as CNN and MSNBC gave it substantial coverage (a Fox correspondent referenced “new developments today from the House Oversight Committee” on Epstein without detailing what those developments entailed).
According to a Media Matters review, as of noon ET, CNN and MSNBC had covered the story for 53 and 56 minutes, respectively. By comparison, Fox's coverage amounted to 6 seconds (the above-mentioned vague reference to “new developments”).
While Epstein’s emails led many national news websites on Wednesday morning, the story was absent from Fox’s homepage.
Fox has largely obeyed Trump’s demands for his media supporters to stop talking about Epstein, even as new revelations suggest that the president may have been familiar with Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation when they were close friends in the 2000s.
The Epstein emails released on Wednesday morning by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee add to the evidence that Trump knew about Epstein’s crimes — and suggest he may have even participated in them.
In an April 2011 email released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote to his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her crimes on Epstein’s behalf: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [Redacted name] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”
Maxwell responded, “I’ve been thinking about that.”
In an email from January 2019, Epstein wrote, “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
Maxwell denied having seen Trump “in any type of massage setting” and said he was “never inappropriate with anybody” during a July interview in prison with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal lawyer. She was subsequently moved to a minimum-security prison camp where she is reportedly receiving special meals, access to visitors, and time playing with a puppy while she seeks clemency from Trump.
The Fox hosts who spent years fulminating over Epstein’s case probably won’t tell their viewers any of this, because they are shills for the president above all else.