This is CRAZY. A long article but worth reading especially the last paragraph. Who the fuck is Xochitl Hinojosa? It is amazing how an investigation like this can be twisted and turned around to involve the President. Wheeler has been on Fox ... forever. His discrimination claim is also laughable.
Seth Rich Case: Fox News Made Fake News to Protect Trump, Lawsuit Alleges
By Alex Seitz-Wald, Corky Siemaszko | NBC News | August 1, 2017, 3:23PMThe private investigator who investigated the unsolved murder of Democratic National Committee aide Seth Rich claimed in a lawsuit Tuesday that a Fox News reporter put words in his mouth to create a fake news story.
Rod Wheeler claims Fox’s Malia Zimmerman made up two quotes attributed to him in her May 16 story, which implied that Rich was killed for leaking internal DNC emails to Wikileaks.
“Mr. Wheeler — who was the only named source quoted in the article — did not make these statements,” the lawsuit states.
Wheeler, a former Washington, D.C. detective and sometime Fox News contributor, said he complained to Ed Butowsky, the Trump supporter who hired him to probe the killing of the DNC data analyst, and was told “that is the way the President wanted the article.”
“The motivation” for the Rich article was to divert attention away from the ongoing Russia investigation and “help put to bed speculation that President Trump colluded with Russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the Presidential election,” Wheeler said in his federal lawsuit, which was filed in the Southern District of New York.
“Zimmerman, Butowsky and Fox had created fake news to advance President Trump’s agenda,” the suit states. “Mr. Wheeler was subsequently forced to correct the false record and, as a result, lost all credibility in the eyes of the public.”
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