For years, Fox News contributed to the conspiracy narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, with prominent figures asserting the existence of a client list implicating powerful elites. After the Department of Justice clarified that no such client list exists, these personalities have retreated from their previous claims. Their audience, primarily MAGA supporters, feel betrayed by the reversal. Internal tensions within Fox are surfacing as the discrepancy between past narratives and current rejections becomes evident, highlighted in confrontational exchanges during press briefings.
For years, many of the network's most loyal pro-Trump personalities pushed the idea that Jeffrey Epstein's connections to powerful elites were not just a scandal, but part of a vast conspiracy one that had yet to be fully exposed.
Now that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has made it clear that the so-called client list doesn't exist and recent reporting confirms there's no sealed trove of elites about to be exposed, those same voices have gone conspicuously quiet.
The backlash to Fox's mishandling of this saga has been swift, not from liberals or fact-checkers, but from their own MAGA-leaning audience.
This dissonance between what Fox viewers have been conditioned to believe and what Fox contributors are now saying is causing real tension, both on air and behind the scenes.
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