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Shepard Smith, Accused of Sexual Assault, Resigns From Fox
National File ^ | 10/11/19 | Tom Pappert

Posted on 10/12/2019 6:38:14 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Shepard Smith, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump who was accused of sexual assault by a man who claims he awoke to find Smith in the same bed with him with his tongue down his throat, is resigning from Fox News amid a growing feud between him and Tucker Carlson.

This afternoon Smith released a statement explaining that he is resigning from Fox News effective immediately. Smith explains that he asked Fox News to be released from his contract so he can pursue other opportunities, and Fox News first asked him to stay before releasing him.

Smith’s departure comes months after Patrick Howley broke the accusations against Smith from a man who says he was molested by the former Fox News anchor.

Howley reported:

“I wake up, and Shepard is on top of me, like, in a towel or a bathrobe. And he’s got his tongue down my throat and his hands all over me. Completely uninvited. I mean, I gave him no signal. There was nothing,” John Doe #1 says in the interview — excerpts of which are presented in audio form above.

“I had also volunteered to sleep in the spare, so it wasn’t — I never invited myself to his bedroom,” John Doe #1 said.

“I pushed him off. I was like, ‘Dude what are you doing?’ And he’s like, ‘what you don’t like it?’ There was like this, kind of like No!, and he kept going, he kept pushing. Like, pushing his hands on all these spots,” John Doe #1 said.

The departure also comes after weeks of feuding with Carlson, who anchors Tucker Carlson Tonight, one of the network’s most highly viewed programs.


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The "G Block" (now I know what he meant by G) turned into a liability.

This explains why the Daily Mail said he was escorted out of the building.

1 posted on 10/12/2019 6:38:14 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Sounds real strange....odd story. I need more reporting to believe this...


2 posted on 10/12/2019 6:40:30 AM PDT by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: Enlightened1

This is old news.

And I still think this isn’t the real reason Smith’s gone.


3 posted on 10/12/2019 6:41:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: devane617

FOX is flatly denying (s)he was “escorted out of the building”.


4 posted on 10/12/2019 6:42:33 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Enlightened1

He’ll be on MSNBC in no time.

He won’t be missed.


5 posted on 10/12/2019 6:43:00 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Enlightened1

Well thank goodness his tongue was down the guys throat and not up somewhere else.


6 posted on 10/12/2019 6:43:39 AM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: jcon40

Sheepturd is a turd burglar!!


7 posted on 10/12/2019 6:44:28 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: brownsfan
Yep. A Trump hating sodomite looks great on today's resume. He's juiced in.
8 posted on 10/12/2019 6:45:52 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (A big mouth doesn't make a big man.~John Wayne)
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To: devane617

No, you don’t need anymore reporting to believe it. Under the new standards advocated by the dems and Shep Smith all you need is an anonymous source with second hand knowledge.

Well, I heard from someone who works there that Shep sexually assaulted someone. Seriesly, I heard it and blew the whistle on Shep.


9 posted on 10/12/2019 6:46:06 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: brownsfan

He used his dog as an excuse. Wanted to spend more time with Lucia.

Give the time slot to judge Jeanine.


10 posted on 10/12/2019 6:47:02 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: devane617

If this sounds in any way or to any degree odd to you, then you have very little experience with homosexuals in real life, and are far too credulous as to the portrayal of homosexuals on television.

This is par for the course.


11 posted on 10/12/2019 6:47:20 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: Enlightened1

Who did they put in his place?

Lou Dobbs?


12 posted on 10/12/2019 6:47:53 AM PDT by crz
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To: mplc51

I bet This has more to do with tucker than anything....he’s mad because they did nothing to Carlson.
On a related note business insider said shep was a moderate.


13 posted on 10/12/2019 6:48:35 AM PDT by SPRINK (G)
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To: Enlightened1

Any indication of who will take his time slot?


14 posted on 10/12/2019 6:49:12 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: FlipWilson

Except there is no anonymous source. There is an open and direct accusation.


15 posted on 10/12/2019 6:49:20 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: Enlightened1

My guess, based solely on seeing what a vile person Shep is, is that FNC management got news that he was into something, probably sexual, that was so vile they had to flush him QUICKLY and did so.


16 posted on 10/12/2019 6:49:30 AM PDT by libstripper (a bit,)
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To: Enlightened1

So Shep DID kind of catch the doorknob on his most receptive place as he was walking out the door (or was being hustled out). It had been an open secret about the ambiguity of Shep’s sexual orientation for some time, but I chalked his drivel he passed off as opinions to being something of a snowflake.

Missed without sadness.


17 posted on 10/12/2019 6:50:20 AM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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To: mewzilla
And I still think this isn’t the real reason Smith’s gone.

Maybe has something to do with this? Shep traveled to Ukraine in 2014:

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scenes-from-ukraine-the-changes-are-subtle-but-theyre-here/217176/

18 posted on 10/12/2019 6:50:25 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: Enlightened1

This could improve the Fox News anchor line up, depending on who is chosen to replace him in his televised time slot.

I have personally refused to watch or listen to him for the past several years.


19 posted on 10/12/2019 6:50:29 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: mewzilla

I think Smith is gone for the fake poll and other machinations in the news.


20 posted on 10/12/2019 6:50:45 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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