On July 10, Fox News published an article titled “10 reasons the DOJ and FBI face backlash over Epstein files flop.”
Reasons one and two on that list were past examples of current FBI Director Kash Patel imploring the release of files related to deceased creep Jeffrey Epstein. In the first, Fox quotes Patel in 2023 saying that House Republicans need to do everything in their power to release “Epstein’s list.”
The second item on the list was titled “Kash Patel told Glenn Beck that the FBI director has ‘direct control’ of Epstein’s address book.” The article quotes Patel from a 2023 interview saying, “That’s under direct control of the director of the FBI,” and that Trump should run on the issue and release it on “day one.”
Three further points in Fox’s list focus on promises and statements made by Attorney General Pam Bondi, including telling Fox earlier this year that she had Epstein’s list “sitting on my desk right now.”
Just a few weeks later, Fox News can’t even be bothered to ask basic questions about these statements when Bondi and Patel show up on air.
On August 14, Bondi appeared on Fox News for her first interview since the Epstein backlash erupted in July. (Trump’s AG was a frequent presence on Fox News before suddenly vanishing.) In the interview, Sean Hannity did not ask her a single question about the Epstein case. Hannity interviewed Kash Patel immediately following Bondi and likewise did not ask a single question about Epstein. Patel showed up on former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow’s Fox show on August 20 and, again, was not asked a single question about Epstein. And this is not because news of the day preempted it: In each case, there were plenty of questions about events from the past, such as the 2016 election, but none about a major scandal entangling the current administration.
On his radio show hours before his two interviews, Hannity even bragged about planning to ignore Epstein, saying that his head would “explode” if he heard the name one more time.
While not surprising, it is contemptible: Fox News itself admitted that Bondi and Patel made clear promises about the Epstein files, and that those promises were being broken — and Hannity and Kudlow have no interest in even getting an explanation to the American people.
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