“The left has to bear the burden of being the party that is tolerating Americans being killed by people who are here illegally,” he added. But the timing, as far as Mr. Trump and his allies were concerned, could not have been better. Fox News set the tone for how prominently the Tibbetts story would feature in the media universe the president and his supporters follow most closely. As other networks covered the president’s growing legal exposure, Fox alone broke in with news of Ms. Tibbetts’s death. On Wednesday night, the host who was filling in for Laura Ingraham opened the program by boasting, “Fox News is the only network fully covering the case.”

Source: New York Times August 23, 2018 23:59 UTC