Would Fox Take Donald Trump’s Side Against Rupert Murdoch? Uh … Yes.

So which side will Fox take? One
would think it would take the side, duh, of the man who owns it. But while
Rupert may own it, he doesn’t run it. That dark duty is the province of
Lachlan Murdoch and Suzanne Scott. And the question of where their loyalties
lie might be a little more complicated than blood.

As it happens, earlier on the very
day the Journal story broke, Representative Robert Garcia, the ranking
Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, wrote Lachlan Murdoch and Scott a
letter. He charged that back during the campaign, Fox & Friends
had selectively edited an interview Trump did with the show about Epstein. The
original segment had Trump being asked if he would release the Epstein files as
president and replying, “Yeah, yeah, I would.” The fuller answer, which Fox
aired later after pressure, had Trump adding a caveat or two. Garcia told the
two execs that he wanted any information on whether the Trump campaign “put
pressure on Fox News to edit” the interview to “mislead the public.”

Garcia’s questions are similar to
those the Trump campaign raised to 60 Minutes about a Kamala Harris
interview last October. But while 60 Minutes’s parent company, Paramount,
totally caved to Trump, it seems pretty unlikely Garcia is going to get any
answers.