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As other networks picked apart President Donald Trump’s prime-time address to the nation early Friday morning, Fox News went in a completely different direction.
Fox & Friends produced not one mention of the president’s address from the night before, during which the commander in chief once again attempted to cast doubt on the integrity of American elections — pointing a finger at Venezuela and China.
Instead, the regular lineup of co-hosts Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, and Lawrence Jones discussed the latest campaign of U.S. airstrikes against Iran, the air quality crisis choking much of America, disastrous flooding in Texas, the World Cup, and a “phenomenal” speech — by Marco Rubio.
Near the end of the three-hour show, the F&F crew turned it over to America’s Newsroom host Dana Perino for a preview of the 9 a.m. show. In it, she also did not mention the speech.
Fox got burned by Trump’s election claims back in 2023, when the network settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over its false claims about fraud.
The network carried Trump’s speech in full on Thursday night. As it concluded, chief political anchor Bret Baier said Fox News “is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president’s statements and claims at this time.”
The speech was slapped with expansive fact–checking from several news organizations after Trump repeated claims about the 2020 election and foreign interference.
A message left for the network was not immediately returned on Friday morning.
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