Fox News and other conservative networks have mostly avoided covering the president’s ties to the sex trafficker
When House Democrats released emails which showed Jeffrey Epstein claiming Donald Trump “knew about the girls”, rightwing news channels in the US reacted the same way: with silence.
Viewers of Fox News and other conservative networks would have had no idea that the president allegedly spent hours at Epstein’s home with one of his victims. Rightwing media largely kept quiet on all of it, apart from a notable slip when a progressive guest on Sean Hannity’s show repeatedly told his audience: “Trump’s all over the Epstein files.”
A similar playbook was in use as Republican infighting over the emails began, with up to 100 Republicans preparing to defy Trump’s wishes by voting for the so-called Epstein files to be released. Rightwing news viewers were kept in a state of blissful ignorance.
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BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 265d
That's because it's NOT Pedophilia stupid LIBURLS! Once a Child grows Pubes you're ALLOWED to put your Penis in Them!
-LITERALLY Fox News!
jdredbeard@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 265d
Remember, gentlemen. If you impregnate a minor girl, you can marry them to avoid catch a statutory rape charge, thanks to Republicans
Republicans "protect" Child Marriage
Less for allowing young couples to elope it's more about protecting statutory rapists by allowing them to marry their victims (archive)
It's about locking in (mostly) girls into coercive marriages when they are a "ripe, fertile age" (archive)
Young women 16-19 experience domestic violence at a rate three times the national average (archive)
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 9 pts · 265d
Per the article, instead of Trump & Epstein, the right wing media is covering... the Miss Universe pageant
Apropos
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 265d
That’s because the owners of those companies went to his island