In recent weeks, Fox News has followed Donald Trump’s lead and focused its attention on anything other than the all-consuming controversy over the administration’s haphazard handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which has dominated the coverage at other outlets.
While the conservative cable giant has devoted much of its energy lately to peddling Tulsi Gabbard’s revisionist claims that the Obama administration engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” to manufacture intelligence about Russia’s 2016 election interference, Fox News has needed other ragebait stories to help distract right-wing viewers away from Epstein.
