Fox News remains uninterested in informing its viewers about new details regarding the close relationship President Donald Trump once shared with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted child sex offender who allegedly trafficked dozens of girls and received a sweetheart plea deal from a prosecutor later appointed to Trump’s first-term Cabinet. The public release of a remarkably creepy birthday note to Epstein bearing Trump’s signature on Monday has garnered only 4 minutes of coverage on Fox News through Tuesday night.
Even that figure understates the degree to which Fox is burying the report. The network has shown an image of the letter, which includes a sexually suggestive drawing, only a single time, and its text, which references “things in common” between Trump and Epstein and a shared “wonderful secret,” has been quoted on-air only once, and then attributed to congressional Democrats.
The letter was reportedly included in a birthday book that convicted sex offender and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The Wall Street Journal first reported the letter’s existence in July, and the House Oversight Committee’s Democrats released it on Monday after the committee received the book from Epstein’s estate.
The Journal’s analysis of the letter details commonalities between its language, illustration, and signature, and those of Trump during that era. Trump and his administration have claimed that the signature is not his and that the letter is part of a Democratic “hoax.” Trump sued the Journal and its owner, Fox founder Rupert Murdoch, over the initial July report.
Why, in 2003, someone would have forged a letter from Trump to his then-close friend Epstein for his birthday is a question that remains unaddressed. But it doesn’t take much to rally MAGA influencers to Trump’s defense, and this half-baked theory has proved to be more than enough for them to declare the note “fake.” A movement which spent years concocting vast conspiracy theories about Democratic child sex trafficking rings is willing to take the pathologically dishonest president at his word.
Fox’s biggest stars, on the other hand, seem wholly uninterested in whether the president of the United States once authored the following birthday letter to his buddy, the notorious child sex trafficker.
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