Fox News says it 'mistakenly' cropped Trump out
of photo featuring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
By Oliver
Darcy, CNN Business
Updated
1905 GMT (0305 HKT) July 6, 2020
New York
(CNN)Fox News said on Monday that it "mistakenly" cropped President
Trump out of a photograph that featured the accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey
Epstein and his alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
"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," a
spokesperson for the network said.
The Fox
News spokesperson added, "We regret the error."
Maxwell was
charged by federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday for her alleged role in
recruiting and sexually abusing underage girls as part of a years-long criminal
enterprise.
Trump's
allies have played up ties between former Democratic President Bill Clinton and
Epstein sometimes by sharing old photos in which both of them appear, while
downplaying photos that show Trump and Epstein together. A Clinton spokesperson
said in 2019 the former President knew "nothing about the terrible crimes"
the convicted pedophile committed.
Fox News'
egregious cropping of Trump from the photo drew criticism and prompted
unflattering media coverage for the conservative cable network. The photograph
aired during a segment about Maxwell being charged by federal prosecutors.
It's not
the first time in recent weeks that Fox News has acknowledged a significant
error related to photos accompanying news stories. In mid-June, Fox News
expressed regret after it published digitally altered and misleading images of the
"CHOP" demonstration in Seattle.
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