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The Alt-Rights DNC Conspiracy Blows UpA lawsuit claiming Fox News, and even President Trump, pressured a detective to concoct a story that Seth Rich was murdered for political reasons is splitting pro-Trump media.
Ben Collins 08.01.17 9:55 AM ET
Pro-Trump media outlets that promoted for months the baseless conspiracy that former DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered for political gain struggled Tuesday with how to report the news that the detective they had believed blew the case open was now suing Fox News for allegedly pressuring him to concoct that story.
Wheeler claims in the suit that he was pressured by Fox News reporter Malia Zimmerman, along with millionaire pro-Trump booster Ed Butowski, the Trump administration, and even the president himself, into making claims that would lift the cloud of the Russia investigation. The premise of those claimsthat Richs murder was being investigated by the FBIwas proved to be false, and Fox News retracted the report.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-suit-turns-seth-rich-conspiracists-on-each-other
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)global1
(25,290 posts)meet with some of the Fox News people for dinner the other night? We're they colluding together on this?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)According to the mooch
It's out there
Included guilfoyle woman, who may have been "seeing" him
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)Birtherism rings a bell.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)How can people be surprised that the head birther is a stone cold liar 24/7/365?
onetexan
(13,077 posts)as GOP strategist Steve Schmidt has said of the current WH.
surrealAmerican
(11,366 posts)Most of his tales come from Fox News.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Trump wallows in falsehoods, the muddier the better.
Qutzupalotl
(14,340 posts)Actual journalistic standards breaking out on Fox. Better bookmark it, or better yet frame it.
Iggo
(47,581 posts)Here's a better statement, closer to the truth:
"We lied. We thought we would get away with it. When it became clear the lie wouldn't hold up, we decided to act like we didn't even know it was a lie."
WinstonSmith4740
(3,059 posts)"Journalistic standards" my ass. The only standard they ever had was to lie...constantly. I'd say they lived up to their journalistic standards just fine in this case.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Why did it take until now to break on other news sources?
Anyway, excellent catch!!
Duppers
(28,127 posts)LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)Enoki33
(1,589 posts)for refusing to ask the WH about the fake story. If that is true the propaganda outlet for Russia was also working in concert with trump and Fox.
czarjak
(11,306 posts)Cheat 'em?
malaise
(269,237 posts)Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Just saying -wouldn't put that past any of these goons.