Fox News can’t keep its Epstein coalition together #shorts

I'm going to play a moment from Fox News for you that I think matters for reasons that go way beyond just a liberal getting the better of the conservative co-hosts, even though that is an example of what this is. We are right now watching Fox struggle to keep its audience together as the Epstein story is growing increasingly complicated. It's getting more and more uncomfortable for the defenders of Donald Trump as the allegations continue to appear and appear and appear.

So let's, let's watch the clip and then discuss what goes on here. The DOJ Epstein file rollout has been a total disaster so far and it exemplifies what many survivors have been saying for years. According to Jessica Tarlov. Let's listen to her explain it. And this is an important message for those on, uh, in the Fox news audience to hear.

Totally. 30,000 is a lot to get through. And you know, the DOJ has been sitting on this for a long time. So you kind of would have thought that maybe they would have been better prepared for this moment since it has been impending, at least since Donald Trump won re-election. The Larry Nassar letter apparently is a fake as well.

That got a lot of swirl today on social media. But I do think the Department of Justice and the Trump administration did themselves no favors by being so gleeful over Friday's documents with pictures of Bill Clinton, for instance, when they knew that more documents were gonna come out

where Donald Trump's name is mentioned several times, evidence that he was on Jeffrey Epstein's plane up to eight times between 1993 and 1996. Two things that stick out to me that I think are very important, and this isn't about Donald Trump, this is about these victims getting their justice, that there were at least up to 10 co-conspirators who we don't know who they are and they haven't been charged. And the fact that Maria Farmer, one of the victims made a complaint in 1996 that wasn't

taken seriously, wasn't addressed. And who knows how many victims could have been saved from a terrible fate of being used by Jeffrey Epstein, Galeen Maxwell, et cetera. If it had been taken seriously, those

there are really two Trump aligned audiences that Fox has always tried to keep in the same coalition. There's a group that genuinely cares about the Epstein scandal. They've been told for years Epstein represents elite corruption and trafficking and powerful people being protected. And for them, Epstein isn't a sideshow.

It's the show. It's the core story about how the system works. They want names. They want accountability. They don't accept this as old news. There's nothing to see here when the new documents come out. The other part of the Fox News audience is kind of more transactional. They're focused on prices, jobs, immigration, and cultural grievance. And so Epstein makes them uneasy. It is not what they wake up thinking about. Their preference isn't that Trump be proven innocent.

It's just that the story go away and that it stopped being discussed. And Fox's sort of job has been, you've got to keep both of these groups satisfied at the same time. the same time. It is getting very difficult to do that.