Fox & Friends Bashes Press Corps Asking About Omarosa, Conveniently Forgets Fox News Reporter

The Omarosa Manigault Newman saga is a story of news value: the president hired the villain from his reality TV series to work in a senior role in the White House, where she was paid the top taxpayer funded salary, apparently recorded a bunch of conversations, was eventually fired and is now releasing those tapes as the president calls her a “dog”.

Fox & Friends thought otherwise. On Wednesday morning, the president’s favorite morning show bashed White House reporters for focusing on Manigault Newman in Tuesday’s press briefing with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

“Yesterday was the White House press briefing and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was forced to answer questions about this,” Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said.

“A few questions about Afghanistan, China, South America, ISIS, Mueller and Turkey,” she continued, “but the majority — like four times the amount of questions — were about Omarosa. The media is obsessed with it.”

Fox & Friends then aired a supercut of reporters asking Sanders questions about Manigault Newman.

Curiously, the supercut did not include Fox News’ own White House reporter Kevin Corke, who asked both of his questions about Omarosa.

Corke actually at first ceded his question to Kristen Welker of NBC News, after Sanders tried to evade a pointed question from Welker about whether there’s a tape of the president using the N-word.

The Fox News White House reporter asked his two questions next, one about Manigault Newman’s claims that Trump is “unfit” for the office, and another about legal action taken against the former Trump official.

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