Fox News: We "mistakenly" edited Trump out of photo w/ Epstein & Maxwell & "regret the error"

[highplainsdem]

From CNN's Oliver Darcy:

Link to tweet

Fox is now addressing this. Network spox says, “On Sunday, July 5, a report on Ghislaine Maxwell during FOX News Channel’s America’s News HQ mistakenly eliminated President Donald Trump from a photo alongside then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. We regret the error.”

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Accidentally on purpose.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. I'm surprised they haven't "accidentally" listed Donald Trump as a Democrat yet

Remember when they were always "mistakenly" doing that everytime one of theirs got into some major trouble?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. "Mistakenly"

Sure..........

[Va Lefty]

3. Riiiight!

[imanamerican63]

10. ++++

[CrispyQ]

5. Did they also show the original photo? -nt

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Cool story Bro...

[HotTeaBag]

7. Weird that they left Melania in - I guess they figured she was just one of

Epstein's 'girls' and didn't realize who it was.

[bottomofthehill]

16. Almost impossible to cut me Melanoma out

[Hugin]

24. You'll notice they referred to her with her maiden name, even in the retraction...

Instead of calling her by her proper name of Melly TRUMP

[HotTeaBag]

27. Yeah, I noticed that too.

I suppose they figure most people still won't make the connection - though they also realize that no one that watches Fox will ever see the retraction/apology anyway.

Beyond that, of all of the photos of her and Epstein together it's baffling why they'd use this particular one.

[Nevilledog]

8. I hate it when I mistakenly hit the crop button......

Which, totally by accident, manages to perfectly remove one person from a photo. That person who just happens to be trump. And then I totally didn't notice my error before I broadcast it."

Totally plausible.

[Eyeball_Kid]

9. Regret the error? Not. FNC regrets GETTING CAUGHT AT IT. n/t

[samnsara]

11. i dont think flotus liked the image of her cozing up to epstein sans donnie

[mnmoderatedem]

12. given that photo layout

it is all but impossible to mistakenly leave trump out of the photo

[spanone]

13. TONS of bullshit

[Rorey]

14. I accidentally tore up all of our wedding photos when I found out my husband was cheating

I know...... it's apples and oranges because my motive was anger and their motive was deception.

[Boomerproud]

15. Another Faux lie.

[Mr. Ected]

17. FOX News: Cropping out truth when it exposes our lies

And cropping out Trump when the rest of the world is crapping on him.

[Permanut]

18. Right..

and I'm the Queen of England.

[Hugin]

25. Your Highness!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[Permanut]

28. No worries..

Sometimes I am high.

[DFW]

19. Sorry Charlie

When you leave something in that you didn't want to, THAT is an error.

When you remove something deliberately, that is NOT an error. That is a deliberate, pre-meditated act. The only error they regret is having gotten caught at it.

[themaguffin]

20. Like when they "mistakenly" put a "D" after a convicted Republican (if they show them at all).

[Cirque du So-What]

21. Is it possible

that cropping dickheimer out of that photo was done in order to draw even more attention to his involvement with Epstein? That’s been the result: more controversy than if the photo had been shown uncropped.

[Turbineguy]

22. Trump got Trotsky'd

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. They say "mistakenly" but they want you to hear "accidentally."

[matt819]

26. Maybe this is okay

Calls more attention to the image(s).