Fox News abruptly interrupted a news conference held by New York Attorney General Letitia James after she announced that the state was suing former President Donald Trump and his adult children for alleged fraud.
The network was covering the live press conference, but was cut off when Ms. James began listing the specific crimes the Trump family was accused of.
“Some of it is really inside baseball, unless it’s your taxes in New York,” said Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner. “Some might even accuse it of being political because we’re 48 days away from the midterm elections.” Then she added without explanation: “Both current and past presidents are definitely thinking about helping candidates.”
Ms. Faulkner is known as one of Fox News’ “direct news” anchors, not one of its political commentators.
She told viewers that Fox News “will definitely be covering” the lawsuit, adding that “the headline in all of this is the Letitia James lawsuit just announced in New York State.”
“Let’s move on,” she said, ending the paragraph.
Overall, Fox News show about The press conference lasted 40 seconds, while the other major cable news networks – CNN and MSNBC – covered the 35-minute press conference and continued to report after the lawsuit was over.
Although Ms. Faulkner claimed the press conference was “inside baseball” information — meaning it was more detailed and technical than what the average Fox News viewer would need to know — the network has covered more niche content in the past.
The network has given plenty of airtime in 2021 for Hunter Biden’s laptop story, which involves the intricate details of the president’s son’s work in Ukraine.according to a media affairs Analysis, it devoted three times as much airtime to the story as it did during the coronavirus pandemic. Fox News also reported on district-focused parent groups protesting “critical racial theory” in elementary schools, and – albeit only on its Fox News Nation online streaming platform – aired Tucker Carlson’s “Humanity”. The End” testicle tanning documentary.
As for the lawsuit, Ms. James said her office has filed a criminal referral with federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the IRS about alleged crimes by the Trump family.
The civil lawsuit seeks at least $250 million in damages and bans Mr. Trump and his adult children, excluding Tiffany Trump, from serving as officers of a New York company and permanently barring the companies named in the lawsuit from operating in New York state. state.
Ms James said the Trump family had “repeatedly and consistently manipulated asset values to induce banks to lend to the Trump Organization on more favourable terms than would otherwise be possible”. She claimed they did so to “pay lower taxes” and meet loan agreements.
