Fox News seemingly “largely obeyed” Donald Trump’s calls to move on from covering Jeffrey Epstein, turning its coverage toward a “familiar boogeyman” in ex-President Barack Obama, per a new report by Media Matters for America.
As the president continues to deal with the fallout of his administration’s handling of files tied to the late sex offender, the network — according to an analysis of transcripts from July 18 to July 23 — mentioned Obama more than three times the amount Epstein was mentioned.
On Monday, for instance, a look at transcripts from the Kinetiq video database shows Epstein was mentioned just two times on Fox News, whereas Obama was mentioned 117 times.
The analysis also found that MSNBC, CNN and the conservative Newsmax network mentioned Epstein 15, 11 and five times more than Fox News in that timespan, respectively.
The start of the analysis marks the day that National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard issued a misleading report that accused top Obama officials of “treasonous conspiracy” by stating that Russia looked to help Trump win the 2016 election.
