Fox Host: We Aired That Fake Image Of Judge “In Jest”

Politico reports:

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday sought to clarify the news organization’s use of a fake image depicting Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Kilmeade was filling in for “Tucker Carlson Tonight” when the fake image was aired on Fox News. It showed a doctored photo of Reinhart receiving a foot massage from Maxwell.

“So a picture of Bruce Reinhart. This is the judge in charge of the… warrant. We’ll see if he’ll release it next. He likes Oreos and whiskey,” Kilmeade said Thursday night. Now Kilmeade has released a statement on Twitter, telling viewers he wanted to make sure they were aware it “wasn’t real.”

Read the full article. Fox’s millions of viewers haven’t been told that the image is fake.

The classic Fox F-U non-apology. pic.twitter.com/fVQgicB7RB

— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) August 12, 2022

Here’s Murdoch’s Fox News passing off a doctored photo of a US judge as the genuine article. All in a bid to discredit the search warrant against Trump. Subsequently Murdoch’s host says he knew it was fake—but showed it ‘in jest’. Take a look. Complete rubbish. https://t.co/fTfIG65XVx

— Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) August 13, 2022

This is disgusting misinformation and puts Judge Reinhart’s security at greater risk. Photo on top of Maxwell and Epstein is real. Photo on bottom, broadcast on Fox News highest rated prime time show, is a fake photoshop.

In any other news network, there’d be dire consequences. https://t.co/oBXBihQEik pic.twitter.com/exvvJ5bv76

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 12, 2022