Fox News suddenly changes its tune after Eric Adams indictment unsealed

Fox claimed it was an act of retaliation from Biden’s DOJ, but that conspiracy theory took a hit after the indictment was unsealed

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After the indictment of New York Mayor Eric Adams was unsealed, Fox News was forced to quickly change its tune from pushing conspiracy theories about retaliation from the Biden administration to admitting that the indictment laid out a seemingly damning case. 

Discussing the then-sealed indictment against Adams on Fox & Friends, host Ainsley Earhardt declared, “It sounds like if you don't fall in line with the Biden family, or this White House, or this administration, or the top Democrats, your life can be ruined.”
 

From the September 26, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

After the indictment was unsealed, Fox News legal editor Kerri Kupec Urbahn was asked to respond to those who “think it might be retaliation from the Biden administration. … Does that seem to you to have anything to do with this?”

Urbahn bluntly responded, “Not looking through this indictment,” adding, “Looking through this indictment, this began long before any of the immigration stuff was going on.” 
 

From the September 26, 2024, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom

This isn’t the first time Fox News and others in right-wing media have immediately gone into conspiracy theory mode to defend someone accused of corruption by claiming it was an act of retribution from a supposedly weaponized Biden Department of Justice.