- The network showed the edited photo during a Sunday segment on Maxwell, who was recently arrested on charges related to Epstein's sex trafficking ring.
- "We regret the error," a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement.
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Fox News says it 'mistakenly' edited Trump out of a photo with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
President Donald Trump was "mistakenly" cropped out of a photo featuring then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell, Fox News said on Monday.
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Fox News on Monday said it "mistakenly" edited President Donald Trump out of a photo alongside then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The photo was taken at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000.
The network showed the Trump-less image during a segment on Sunday about Maxwell, the British socialite and longtime Epstein confidante who was recently arrested on charges that she arranged and participated in the abuse of young girls.
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Epstein died in an apparent suicide last August in a New York jail while awaiting trial over charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls. At the time, Epstein was already a registered sex offender.
In a statement on Monday, a Fox News spokesperson said, "On Sunday, July 5, a report on Ghislaine Maxwell during FOX News Channel's America's News HQ mistakenly eliminated President Donald Trump from a photo alongside then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. We regret the error."
Trump has been increasingly critical of Fox News in recent months amid a growing rift between the network's news anchors and opinion hosts. The opinion side of Fox tends to present Trump in a positive light, and the president has close relationships with hosts like Sean Hannity. The news side of Fox, however, has routinely been the target of Trump's ire.
".@FoxNews weekend afternoons is the worst! Getting into @CNN and MSDNC territory. Watch @OANN & @newsmax instead. Much better!" Trump tweeted on Sunday .
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