House Democrats send a letter to Fox News and request answers to changes to Trumps 2024 Epstein comments

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A top supervisory democrat sent a letter to the chairman of Fox Corp, Lachlan Murdoch, and the CEO of FOX news media, Suzanne Scott, and demanded answers to Fox through a Donald Trump interview on June 2024 via Jeffrey Epstein -an editing that would cause the public to mislead and delayed its position.

Fox accuses the letter from the ruined democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, which initially received from CNN, Fox, important qualification features in Trump's answer to a question to publish whether he would publish Epstein-related documents. The letter calls for the internal records of FOX about the interview and any communication with Trump's campaign at that time-a request that FOX will certainly reject.

In the television version of an interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend”, Trump seemed to be clearly supported to publish the files. But in the not edited version – the next day on Fox 'Radio platform and “Fox and Friends” – he heard and commented on “false things” and the potential to “influence people”.

The processing attracted some attention at that time, but has achieved more examination in the past few days than Trump criticized the criticism of his own supporters about the attempts by the government to close further disclosures on Epstein's crimes.

In the letter, which of Rangsing Oversight member Robert Garcia, asks Murdoch and Scott to explain the decision-making behind the processing and whether political considerations influenced the presentation of the interview.

“In view of President Trump's well -documented social relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, the selective omission of Fox News raises serious concerns that the network may have intentionally tried to protect Trump from a further connection with Epstein,” the letter said.

In a statement to CNN, a spokesman for Fox News said “there was no selective or deceptive processing at all.” The “Standard -Editorial Cuts for Time Cuts and the complete answer to the question that was broadcast on the show of the following day,” said the network, says the network.

In the interview, co-moderator Rachel Campos-Duffy asked whether Trump would release “9/11 files” and “JFK files”. He said without hesitation. Then she asked: “Would you release the Epstein files?”

His answer, as it was originally broadcast: “Yes, yes, I would.”

But in the full version, which was only broadcast later, Trump said: “Yes, yes, I would do it. I think less because they don't know that they do not want to influence people's lives if it is flat there because it is a lot of false stuff with this whole world. But I think I would or at least -“, ”

Campos-Duffy threw in and said, “Do you think that trust would restore? Do you help to restore trust?”

Trump was once again: “I don't know about Epstein, as much as I do with the others. Certainly about the way he died. It would be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a strange situation and the cameras do not work by accident, etc. etc. But yes, I would have a long way to this one.

Critics said that the edited version, which was originally broadcast, was outrageous because it developed Trump's uncertainty and represented his attitude in a more definitive and politically favorable light.

Trump was very interested in TV news last year when “60 minutes” interviewed his then rival Kamala Harris and broadcast two different parts of a controversial Harris response on two different days.

Trump finally claimed “election mixture” and sued CBS, which led to an agreement of 16 million US dollars with the paramount paramount paramount, much to the dismay of the “60 minutes” employees. The FCC, chaired by Trump Ally Brendan Carr, currently has an open examination in CBS that arises from this processing.

At the beginning of this week, Chuck Schumer and Ed Markay called the Fox Edit over Epstein in a letter to Carr.

“This selective processing seems to be far more misleading than the ordinary editorial decision-making process in the CBS interview with Harris,” said the senators.

Instead of arguing for an equivalent examination of FOX, the senators said: “The FCC should stop its party political investigations into the news media and stop the independent journalism as a whole.”