FOX News Edits Out Mentions Of 'Russia' When Quoting Trump Jr Emails

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In typical Fox News style, the newest Trump-Russia bombshell is a non-story. In fact, if you looked on the Fox News website over the weekend, you would have been hard pressed to find any mention of the Don Jr.

at all, never mind the Trump-Russia stories by the New York Times. Today, they have finally posted a story on it.

But of course, Fox couldn't possibly just report the revelations straight. Instead, they took the Trump Jr. emails and actually EDITED out the references to Russia, making the emails look much less damning.

Per Media Matters, here are the original and edited emails:

Original: This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump.

Fox displayed the quote (and read it) as this:

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