{"id":56856,"date":"2023-05-07T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56856"},"modified":"2023-05-07T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:03:26","slug":"fox-news-prompts-gop-senator-to-frame-clarence-thomas-documented-corruption-as-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56856","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Prompts GOP Senator to Frame Clarence Thomas’ Documented Corruption as ‘Attacks’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks there have been numerous reports detailing the profoundly disturbing legal and ethical breaches by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It paints a picture of a Justice deeply mired in schemes to enrich himself with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts from a right-wing billionaire with interests before the Court.<\/p>\n

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The investigative work by ProPublica<\/a><\/strong> is thorough and well documented. It reveals that Thomas took luxury vacations provided by Harlan Crow, and sold real estate to him for inflated values. And as incriminating as all of the evidence was, Fox News conspicuously avoided any substantive reporting on it.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Fox News Blacks Out Story of Clarence Thomas Secretly Taking Luxury Gifts From GOP Billionaire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And that wasn’t the only time that Fox News purposefully suppressed a story about the improprieties of Thomas and his family.<\/p>\n

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

As this story developed and expanded, Fox has been continuing to downplay the criminal and ethical aspects of it. On Sunday Fox’s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, interviewed Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah. and from the outset of the interview it was clear how she wanted to frame the story.<\/p>\n

Bartiromo:<\/strong> Let me get your take on these attacks against Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court…your reaction to what’s taken place to the Supreme Court.
\nLee:<\/strong> This is absolutely dreadful. this is an attack on Justice Thomas, a good man. a good man who has risen from poverty in the Jim Crow South to a position where he is one of the most respected jurists in our nation’s history. They don’t like that. They don’t like the fact that he has the audacity to be conservative as a Black man. […] There’s not one allegation they’ve raised against him that reveals any impropriety, any wrongdoing, any violation of any law, any rule, or ethical principle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mike Lee on Fox News dismisses Clarence Thomas's corruption: "This is an attack on Justice Thomas … they don't like the fact that he has the audacity to be conservative as a Black man." pic.twitter.com\/AV6n4Dy1gq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n