Fox News' Fox & Friends was the only morning show on May 26 not to report that Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, has become part of the FBI's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election and related matters. According to a May 25 report by The Washington Post, "Kushner, who held meetings in December with the Russian ambassador and a banker from Moscow, is being investigated because of the extent and nature of his interactions with the Russians." The Post report also noted that “The Post has not been told that Kushner is a target — or the central focus — of the investigation, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.”
Fox has consistently tried to ignore, mislead about, downplay, distract from, and create an alternate reality around the FBI's probe. One Fox host called the story “a boring scandal ... with no sex, with no money, with no dead bodies,” and Fox & Friends, whose coverage has been nothing short of propaganda, recently complained that Trump and Russia are “all we talk about every morning” and that “it would be one thing if there was some 'there' there.”
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From CBS This Morning:
He is a font of information even if he himself isn’t under any pressure for something he may have done. -- @JDickerson on Kushner pic.twitter.com/roqKsz5Xzl
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) May 26, 2017
From NBC's Today:
What does it mean to say someone is under scrutiny?
“This person has significant information about the issues under inquiry.” -@AriMelber pic.twitter.com/oZhY8Pu32k— TODAY (@TODAYshow) May 26, 2017