Filling in for Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, guest host Brian Kilmeade showed viewers a digitally altered photo of Reinhart holding a bottle of booze and a package of Oreo cookies while sitting across from Maxwell with his legs in her lap. “That’s the judge in charge of … the warrant and we’ll see if he leaves it next. He likes Oreos and whiskey,” Kilmeade said. The distorted image came from an original photo taken in September 2017, when Reinhart was waiting out a hurricane in his backyard while waiting to watch a New York Giants game. “We’re putting this hurricane on hold for the start of football season. I sit in my backyard, protected by Kevlar screens that are bolted down. Hope the power stays on for the Giants-Dallas game tonight,” Reinhart wrote along with the photo. The photoshopped photo of Rinehart, which Fox News attributed to Twitter user @whatimemetosay, actually came from a photo in which dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein posed next to Maxwell on a private plane, his legs in her lap. In June, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for supplying teenage girls to sexually abuse Epstein. Sean Hannity, another Fox News host, pointed out the photo’s authenticity when Kilmeade asked, “Sean, can you figure that out?” Hannity responded: “I think that’s actually a picture of Jeffrey Epstein with somebody putting his head in there… I guess, I don’t know.” “Who knows?” said Kilmeade. Kilmeade has since responded to the photo, writing on Twitter: “Last night while hosting Tucker Carlson, we showed you a picture of Judge Bruce Reinhart with Ghislaine Maxwell that came on screen from a meme that came out of Twitter and was not real. This depiction was never done and we wanted to make it clear that we were showing a meme for fun.” Earlier this week, federal investigators searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida with a warrant seeking classified material — including secret nuclear weapons documents, according to reports — that the Justice Department believes Trump illegally obtained while was in power. . Merrick Garland, the attorney general, said he personally approved the decision to seek the search warrant and asked to unseal it because of a “substantial public interest.” Trump supported the Justice Department’s efforts to issue the search warrant, writing on the social media platform Truth Social, “Release the documents now!”
