It also claims that Sean Spicer was involved and that the President himself encouraged this http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story
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.
The story, which first aired in May, was retracted by Fox News a week later. Fox News has, to date, taken no action in response to what it said was a failure to adhere to the network's standards.
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 Spicerto 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.
"Rod Wheeler unfortunately was used as a pawn by Ed Butowsky, Fox News and the Trump administration to try and steer away the attention that was being given about the Russian hacking of the DNC e-mails," said Douglas Wigdor, Wheeler's lawyer.
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Fox's report went sideways shortly after it was posted online and aired on Fox & Friends. It was denounced by the Rich family, D.C. police, Democratic Party officials, and even, privately, by some journalists within the network. Within hours, Wheeler told other news outlets that Fox News had put words in his mouth.
Despite those concerns, Wheeler appeared on the shows of Fox Business host Lou Dobbs and Fox News star Sean Hannity, who devoted significant time to the story that night and in subsequent days. In speaking with Wheeler, Hannity said: "If this is true and Seth Rich gave WikiLeaks the DNC e-mails...this blows the whole Russia collusion narrative completely out of the water."
Not sure what to make of this, tbh.
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Really weird. I had only heard of the Seth Rich conspiracy from borderline crazy Sanders supporters prior to the election.
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shockthemonkey posted...
Really weird. I had only heard of the Seth Rich conspiracy from borderline crazy Sanders supporters prior to the election.
you mean r/the_donald ?
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I mean it was fairly obvious from the get go It just coincidentally happened to pop up when another big thing dropped in the Russia story
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ChromaticAngel posted...
shockthemonkey posted...
Really weird. I had only heard of the Seth Rich conspiracy from borderline crazy Sanders supporters prior to the election.
you mean r/the_donald ?
No, why would I mean that? I mostly saw it in Facebook groups.
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shockthemonkey posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
shockthemonkey posted...
Really weird. I had only heard of the Seth Rich conspiracy from borderline crazy Sanders supporters prior to the election.
you mean r/the_donald ?
No, why would I mean that?
You said borderline crazy sanders supporters I was making a j you know what never mind
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Weird as Fox News pressured Hannity to stop with the Seth Rich crap.
when you stub your toes it's the SJWs fualt.
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Oh, sorry. I don't know what goes on there, are/were there a lot of crazy Sanders supporters?
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shockthemonkey posted...
Oh, sorry. I don't know what goes on there, are/were there a lot of crazy Sanders supporters?
Here's how Bernie can still win. Published Nov. 11th, 2016
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Were_Wyrm posted...
shockthemonkey posted...
Oh, sorry. I don't know what goes on there, are/were there a lot of crazy Sanders supporters?
Here's how Bernie can still win. Published Nov. 11th, 2016
I meant on r/the_donald haha
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shockthemonkey posted...
Oh, sorry. I don't know what goes on there, are/were there a lot of crazy Sanders supporters?
a lot of disfranchised bernie supporters went out to vote for Donald Trump for revenge. they posted a bunch of messages on r/t_d and r/bernieforpresident and other places.
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Wonder if Donnie will acknowledge this particular piece of Fake News?
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I read this topic as Seth Rogan and got really confused on why Fox trying to frame Seth Rogan regarding Donald Trump
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WellKnownNomad posted...
I read this topic as Seth Rogan and got really confused on why Fox trying to frame Seth Rogan regarding Donald Trump
Now that's a story I wanna hear
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Antifar posted...
Not sure what to make of this, tbh.
Probably shouldn't make anything of it at this point. I'm not a Trump supporter in anyway and think Fox News is a joke but at this point its just a law suit that has been filed.
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whitelytning posted...
Antifar posted...
Not sure what to make of this, tbh.
Probably shouldn't make anything of it at this point. I'm not a Trump supporter in anyway and think Fox News is a joke but at this point its just a law suit that has been filed.
Well, the guy pushing the suit is claiming things Fox said he said were not actually said by him. Seems pretty believable. Trumpsters do love their narratives
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Fox News didn't invent this story or popularize the conspiracy.
I just read a washington post article that claims Fox News started it and created the conspiracy.
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creativerealms posted...
Weird as Fox News pressured Hannity to stop with the Seth Rich crap.
Hannity is in bed with Trump and the Russians.
Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene
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And here I thought the Seth Rich story was foolproof. Definitely an odd situation considering who the lawsuit is coming from.
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