{"id":56662,"date":"2023-04-06T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56662"},"modified":"2023-04-14T01:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:23:39","slug":"fox-news-blacks-out-story-of-clarence-thomas-secretly-taking-luxury-gifts-from-gop-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56662","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Blacks Out Story of Clarence Thomas Secretly Taking Luxury Gifts From GOP Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes a story of profound significance to bump the indictment of Donald Trump from the headlines. After all, when was the last time a twice-impeached, pathologically lying, former TV game show host, and aspiring dictator, was charged with 34 felonies for crimes ranging from election interference to tax fraud?<\/p>\n

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The arraignment of Trump in a Manhattan courtroom<\/a><\/strong> Wednesday afternoon was a historic event that saw Trump sitting feebly in the embrace of his lawyers at the defendant’s table like any other alleged criminal. It signaled the resilience of the American idiom that “no one is above the law.”<\/em> It also triggered a typically psychotic “death and destruction”<\/em> response from Trump<\/a><\/strong>, whose mental state in court was noticeably tempered, but wildly loosed online.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Read Trump\u2019s Raving Arraignment Response as Foretold By His Unhinged Truth Social Rants<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday morning such a story was published by the investigative journalists at ProPublica. The story detailed how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from a right-wing billionaire without disclosing them as the law requires. According to ProPublica<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them.” […]<\/p>\n

“[Thomas] has vacationed on Crow\u2019s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow\u2019s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow\u2019s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow\u2019s private resort in the Adirondacks.” […]<\/p>\n

“These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas\u2019 financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, Harlan Crow is a notorious conservative and Republican donor who often has cases before the court that would impact his business interests. What’s more, the “vacations”<\/em> that Thomas enjoyed at Crow’s expense regularly included other conservative businessmen and politicos who would have reasons to want to rub elbows with a Supreme Court Justice.<\/p>\n

This is a blatant breach of judicial ethics and federal law. Although it is not surprising that Thomas would stoop to violate the standards of behavior for a Justice, considering his long history of such ethical lapses. For instance, Thomas refused to recuse himself from matters that directly involved his wife, Ginni Thomas, and her efforts to undermine democracy in support of the January 6th insurrection and coup plotters. A story that Fox News didn’t bother to cover.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Fox News Totally Ignores Story About Ginni Thomas Texting QAnon Nuttery to Mark Meadows<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly unsurprising is the fact that Fox News is ignoring this new Clarence Thomas story. In the past several hours most of the credible media has picked up the ProPublica report. But it has yet to appear on Fox News or their website.<\/p>\n

This is their modus operandi for any news event that reflects poorly on Republicans and Trump. The revelations from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News (which Fox News initially refused to cover<\/a><\/strong>) exposed them as deliberate liars who placed their politics and greed above truthfulness and patriotism.<\/p>\n

Even after the humiliation from the Dominion disclosures of the private communications of Fox executives and hosts, this censorship by omission is further proof that Fox couldn’t care less about honest journalism or holding the powerful accountable. They only care about disseminating right-wing propaganda and goosing their ratings.<\/p>\n

RELATED: IT\u2019S A CULT: Most Fox News Viewers Are Still Loyal After Dominion Lawsuit Discloses Their Lies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE I:<\/strong> Clarence Thomas pathetically and dishonestly responds<\/a><\/strong> to the charges that he secretly took numerous luxury gifts from a right-wing billionaire.<\/p>\n

UPDATE II:<\/strong> ProPublica published a follow-up story<\/a><\/strong> that reveals that Clarence Thomas sold real estate properties to Harlan Crow (at inflated prices), that Thomas never disclosed. Which is a federal crime.<\/p>\n

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It takes a story of profound significance to bump the indictment of Donald Trump from the headlines. After all, when was the last time a twice-impeached, pathologically lying, former TV game show host, and aspiring dictator, was charged with 34 felonies for crimes ranging from election interference to tax fraud? 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