FOX News’ Comey pre-game was scripted from his previously released statement, yet the post-game tells a different story. What was considered vindication of POTUS turned to be damaging – PB/TK
Even Fox News Thinks Comey Testimony ‘Very Damaging’ to Trump – By Matt Wilstein / June 8 2017
If President Donald Trump had been tuned in to Fox News immediately following former FBI Director James Comey’s Senate hearing on Thursday, he would not have heard the same type of staunch defense he has become used to receiving on shows like Fox & Friends and Hannity.
Instead, Fox viewers were treated to a harsh assessment of the political fallout for the Trump administration by the network’s more serious news anchors Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.
Baier went first, unwilling to say definitely “who won the day,” but quick to call Comey’s opening statement “surprising” and “strong,” noting that “he took the gloves off right away” and “numerous times, essentially, directly calling President Trump a liar.”
At the same time, Baier called former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, not Trump, the day’s biggest “loser” because of the way Comey characterized her handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
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