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Citizens for Ethics

29 Mar, 11 tweets, 3 min read

Let’s talk about Fox News

Today, Fox announced that Lara Trump was joining the network as a paid contributor, as she decides whether she wants to run for Senate.

Never mind that the day before the insurrection, she went on Fox to spread election fraud lies…
nytimes.com/2021/03/29/bus…

But Lara Trump is not the first Trump employee to get hired by Fox. In Kayleigh McEnany’s case, they were in talks before she had even left the White House.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

A stint at Fox can be quite lucrative for Trumpworld insiders… Hope Hicks worked there for a year and a half between stints at the White House and made $1.9 million dollars.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

But personnel is not the only area that Fox News overlaps with Trump’s political apparatus. The network was one of the most frequent places that Trump officials would go to violate ethics law.

Steven Miller violated the Hatch Act on Fox News
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…

Mark Meadows violated the Hatch Act on Fox News (twice)
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…

So did Kellyanne Conway
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…

Perhaps the most egregious campaign stunt pulled off by a Trump insider on Fox News was when Rudy Giuliani revealed that he knew in advance that the FBI was opening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…

Fox is finally facing some accountability for their role in spreading Trump’s election lies now that the network is being sued by Dominion Voting for defamation.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

If Fox is willing to employ Trump insiders who spread election lied and accept a pattern of law breaking on their shows, then we have to assume the network knows it is doing damage to our democracy, but it doesn’t care.

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