Fox News fires back after leaked internal memo reportedly blasts network’s top Trump allies
February 7, 2020 | Vivek Saxena
Fox News is firing back after a liberal media outlet claimed to have obtained a copy of an internal Fox News memo in which the network’s higher-ups accuse the president’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon, retired U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova and DiGenova’s wife, Victoria Toensing, of spreading so-called “disinformation.â€
“The 162-page document, entitled ‘Ukraine, Disinformation, & the Trump Administration,’ was created by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, who produces research from what is known as the network’s Brain Room — a newsroom division of researchers who provide information, data, and topic guides for the network’s programming,†The Daily Beast claimed in a report Thursday.
The Daily Beast is a leftist network that was threatened with a defamation lawsuit last year by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes.
The outlet claims the document is “especially critical of Solomon,†whom it accuses of having “played an indispensable role in the collection and domestic publication of†so-called “disinformation†involving matters in Ukraine.
As House Democrats began accusing President Donald Trump last year of having used a quid pro quo threat to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into initiating investigations into credible allegations of corruption surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Solomon began publishing reports challenging the premises of their case.
These reports included credible evidence showing that the president’s concerns about corruption, particularly in relation to Biden, were wholly merited.
Once House Democrats formally launched their impeachment inquiry against Trump, they began subpoenaing former Trump administration officials to testify against him.
A number of these officials — including Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman and Marie Yovanovitch — disputed the accuracy of Solomon’s reports, with Hill going so far as to allege that his reporting was equivalent to Russian propaganda.
He fired back at the time both via Twitter and via a statement made on Fox News.
John Solomon @jsolomonReports
How dare Fiona Hill question my patriotism or suggest I was part of a Russian disinformation campaign without a single fact. My sources were all US officials or Ukrainian officials aligned against Russia. Her accusations must have made Joe McCarthy smile up from hell.
John Solomon @jsolomonReports
Fiona Hill suggested my Ukraine stories were Russian propaganda. If she’s such an expert she would know my main character Yuriy Lutsenko was a political prisoner of the Russian backed Yanukovych regime and the US pleaded for his release and applauded his appointment as prosecutor
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