Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale

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Lawsuit filed!

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.

Fox's president of news, Jay Wallace, told NPR Monday there was no "concrete evidence" that Wheeler was misquoted by the reporter, Malia Zimmerman. The news executive did not address a question about the story's allegedly partisan origins. Fox News declined to allow Zimmerman to comment for this story.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story

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1. K & R. n/t

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2. The RWNJ are pushing a ton of conspiracy theories

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3. FAKE NEWS!!!

[ProfessorPlum]

5. projection. It's what's for GOP breakfast

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4. Fox News, making the dumb dumber since 1998

Knr

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6. Also: Fox News Busted As Fake News As Fox Worked With Trump On Seth Rich Conspiracy Story

Looks like Spincer would have to be named in the court filing??




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


http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/01/fox-news-busted-fake-news-fox-worked-trump-seth-rich-conspiracy-story.html

By Jason Easley on Tue, Aug 1st, 2017 at 9:02 am

A new federal lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration reviewed a fake Fox News story about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.
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NPR reported:

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.

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According to the lawsuit, Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer met at the White House with Wheeler and Butowsky to review the Rich story a month before Fox News ran the piece.

On May 14, about 36 hours before Fox News’ story appeared, Butowsky left a voicemail for Wheeler, saying, “We have the full, uh, attention of the White House on this. And tomorrow, let’s close this deal, whatever we’ve got to do.”

The lawsuit is evidence that the Trump White House is planting fake news in conservative media outlets, but equally as important is the idea that conservative media, like Fox, are working with the White House to spread fake news.
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7. republican TreasonWeasels conspired to lie and hurt the Rich family

in order to divert attention from their vile traitorous collusion with the russians to undermine American democracy.

republican 'family values' just totally suck cesspool bottomscuzz. They are that low.

Republicans need to let go of their degenerate values, and adopt American values: honesty, integrity, respect, honor, and loyalty not to the freaking kremlin moneybag mob, but to the USA.

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8. The RWNJs have been pushing a conspiracy theory involving Seth Rich for a while

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9. Kick