According to a CNN report, Fox News had a segment about Donald Trump’s alleged affair with adult film star Stephanie Clifford, a.k.a. “Stormy Daniels,” and decided to kill the story in the weeks before the 2016 election:
One of the network's reporters, Diana Falzone, had filed a story in October 2016 about an alleged sexual relationship between Clifford and Trump, people familiar with the matter said.
Falzone had an on-the-record statement from Clifford's manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, confirming that her client had engaged in a sexual relationship with Trump, three of these people said, and Falzone had even seen emails about a settlement.
But the story never saw the light of the day, to the frustration of Falzone, two of the people said.
It is incredible this particular story was buried with so many outlets—Good Morning America, Slate, Fox News—all had this story about the leader of the so-called “family values” party openly having or pursuing extramarital affairs with porn stars while his newlywed wife and newborn son were at home.
Instead the news was dominated by the re-hashed and recycled nothingburger non-story emails over and over again. And oh! Candidate Hillary Clinton isn’t holding regular press conferences! Hello? Donald Trump has had one standalone press conference in nearly a year. Where are the graphics packages outlining every news channel on TV? Where is the Washington Post with their hyperventilating day/minute counter?
Fox News has been run by a stable of sexual harassers and predators. They buried this story and continue run salacious hit pieces to this very day about Hillary Clinton. Time should be up for them too.
In the end, Donald Trump is a lecherous cad with no morals and no values and every second Republicans enable him, those are their values too. Whatever moral ground Republicans once boasted of having has careened over a cliff like Thelma & Louise.
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 · 2:53:38 PM +00:00 · Jen Hayden
Fox New is pushing back, because of course they are:
“Like many other outlets, we were working to report the story of Stephanie Clifford’s account in October 2016 about then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump and a possible payment by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. In doing our due diligence, we were unable to verify all of the facts and publish a story,” Noah Kotch, the editor-in chief of Fox News Digital, said in a statement.