Fox News Host Rips Own Network After Underhanded Edit of Trump Interview Revealed
Even Fox News can be dishonest when it suits them . . .
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August 10, 2021
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Fox News host Dan Bongino ended up being forced to criticize his own network on Monday after an interview he conducted with former President Trump was found to have been edited to cut out references Trump had made to the 2020 presidential election not being legitimate.
As Mediaite reports:
In an interview that aired on Fox News Saturday night, Trump told Bongino that the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden was “fake.” While that comment aired in full on Fox News, the clip of the interview that the network posted to YouTube had the comment edited out.
A spokeswoman for Trump noticed, and attacked the network for the edit, prompting Bongino to come under fire from furious supporters of Trump.
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Bongino, who has long been an ardent Trump supporter, then spoke out in his defense on Monday claiming that the interview had been edited by the network:
“It was edited, The reason I was given was to comply with YouTube rules. We have no intention of doing that on my show,” he said. “I don’t control the Fox News YouTube account. However, I do work with them and it’s my show.”
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“It’s not acceptable at all. I want to make that clear,” he said. “This is not acceptable. Meaning I won’t accept it. And I promise you a definitive resolution that I’m working on now. What it is, we’ll have to find out. But I promise you a definitive resolution. If you think I’m just going to forget about it and pretend, oh it’ll blow over — you clearly haven’t listened to my show through the year.”
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