Hosts on Fox News are too “terrified” of President Donald Trump to cover the growing anger from his MAGA followers over the administration’s handling of late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s files, according to Newsmax host Rob Schmitt. 

“It’s clear that the White House didn’t want this to be a subject, but Trump’s base, his supporters in [the] base, care about it,” Schmitt said on his Newsmax program, “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” on Tuesday.

“A lot of TV hosts are terrified of what to say and how to say it, because they don’t want to lose their audience, and they don’t want to piss off the White House at the same time. So it becomes a bit of a catch-22.”

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