Let's have a look at how the No. 1 cable news network handled the story about Trump's attempted firing of Robert Mueller.
Robert S. Mueller III on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2013. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 25 at 3:49 PM After Attorney General William P. Barr last month released his summary of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings, Fox News host Sean Hannity took out his chest-beating equipment.
The reporting added sinew to chatter that had circulated in June 2017, when Trump friend and Newsmax Media chief executive Christopher Ruddy told PBS, “Well, I think he’s considering perhaps terminating the special counsel.” The next morning, it was raining cold water on “Fox & Friends." Co-host Ainsley Earhardt appeared convinced that the reaction of Trump actually bore some relation to the factual considerations: “All right, well, the president says it’s fake news. That happened last June,” said Earhardt."Do you — you know, it’s something we have to tell you about ’cause it is a headline on the New York Times.
With that, “Outnumbered” co-host Harris Faulkner tossed the topic across the couch: “Let’s bring it out now and get Bernie McGuirk’s thoughts on all of this!" said Faulkner, referring to a New York radio personality. McGuirk said: “To me, it’s a joke, it’s a non-story, it’s a leak, you know, you have more FBI corruption and bias about to be exposed, you have Trump killing it over in Davos, and then they say, 'Listen, let’s hand the New York Times some talking points.
There’s a lot of additional detail in the report, including McGahn’s recollection of how Trump’s insistence hardened in a second call on the matter: “When the President called McGahn a second time to follow up on the order to call the Department of Justice, McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like, ‘Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can’t be the Special Counsel.
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