Fox News Cuts Ties With Diamond & Silk, Unofficial Trump 'Advisers' Who Spread Bonkers Coronavirus

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Source: daily beast



The MAGA superstars lost their Fox gig after pushing absolutely wild conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Updated Apr. 27, 2020 5:02PM ET / Published Apr. 27, 2020 4:53PM ET

Fox News has cut ties with MAGA vlogging superstars Diamond & Silk, who had contributed original content to the network’s streaming service Fox Nation since shortly after its late 2018 launch.

The sudden split comes after the Trump-boosting siblings have come under fire for promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus. “After what they’ve said and tweeted you won’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon,” a source with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.

After rising to prominence during the 2016 election, Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson leveraged their newfound celebrity into regular sycophantic appearances on Fox News, resulting in President Donald Trump raving about their performances, featuring them at rallies, and treating them as “senior advisers.”

The social-media personalities were eventually tapped to provide weekly videos for Fox Nation after it launched as a subscription-based online video network. Their episodes, essentially 5-7 minute distillations of their freeform live-streams, appeared like clockwork on the streaming service until earlier this month.

No new episodes of their online program have been uploaded since April 7, as CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy first noted over the weekend. Prior to this month, the duo never missed a week posting episodes since December 2018.

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Silk, meanwhile, baselessly asserted that the disease was “man-made” and “engineered,” wondering aloud if there was a “little deep-state action going on behind the scenes.” She also questioned whether the World Health Organization had a “switch” to “turn this virus on and off?”..............................

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I was never a fan of these two1

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[Newest Reality]

1. What's the difference?

One bonkers doesn't like the other and kicks 'em out?

Sounds more like competition and infighting. Some bonkers is expendable when you want your bonkers to look better. Yup, nice big, shiny, Faux bonkers.

[spudspud]

2. Bwahahahah....**wheeeze**...hahahha

Fox News is running from the incoming legal liability for all their COVID19 coverage shenanigans.

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. The Modern Day Minstral show cancelled

Trump's ready to discharge them from the payroll as long as the great unwashed aren't turning out for his sideshows.

[Miigwech]

4. Bye Felicia

[47of74]

5. Thoughts n prayers

[Midnight Writer]

6. Oh,no! This will hurt FOX News ratings among African Americans.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. I assume the 2 African American viewers of Fox News were their mothers

who watched out of pity.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Maybe just one viewer. I believe they are sisters from the same mother.

[majdrfrtim]

7. Now if only they'd cut ties with the popular-vote-loser, impeached, Josef-Mengele-wannabe

who's "promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus," as well!

[Grokenstein]

19. Oh, but that's different! He was being sarcastic!

(Also, at some point in his past, he was white.)

[majdrfrtim]

20. Oops, my bad, Grokenstein!

I forgot to factor in the "Trump Sarcasm Quotient"! Again!

I *hate* it when that happens.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. They are still co-chairs of "Black Voices for Trump"

because "too crazy even for Fox News" is "mainstream for Trump remoras".

(and that's not something out of date - the Black Voices for Trump website has a new link to something they wrote today. I'm not giving that link, of course; don't worry, the link about just explains what a remora is)

[turbinetree]

11. Remoras....will have to log that word to be used later on..............

[scarletwoman]

15. Remoras - what a perfect, inspired word!!! Many thanks! (nt)

[turbinetree]

9. Is Facebook and other platforms going to cut them off.........that should be the next question.....

[LonePirate]

10. It is tough for me to wrap my head around someone being too kooky even for Fox News.

I guess there is a home for them at OANN.

[world wide wally]

12. Does this mean that Clorox will not sponsor their 2020 World Tour?

[djacq]

16. No Barbeque invitations for them.

Ever!

[keithbvadu2]

17. Will Trump cut ties with them?

[Yeehah]

18. You have to be bouncing-off-the-walls crazy to get the boot from Fox "News."

However, they would not be fired were they blondes.

[chowder66]

21. They are probably reducing their liability when things open back up and lawsuits start

pouring in.

[Javaman]

22. two morons that pushed their grift too hard.

they got ahead of themselves and now lost their patron.

[CottonBear]

23. In another thread, a DUer said their new names will be Quartz & Polyester!