McAuliffe Spokesperson Admits Effort to ‘Kill’ Fox News Story

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McAuliffe Spokesperson Admits Effort to ‘Kill’ Fox News Story



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Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign may see the handwriting on the wall, as it has reportedly hired the infamous attorney Marc Elias’ firm to represent them.

That’s the same Elias who worked for the Washington, D.C., law firm Perkins Coie hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.


The firm then turned around and hired Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, who authored the dossier that helped launch the FBI’s Russia probe.

Elias also oversaw a slew of lawsuits in swing states to loosen election integrity laws.

Fox News editor reached out to McAuliffe campaign spokesperson Christina Freundlich via email for comment on a $53,580 payment to the Elias Law Group, referencing a story by George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.

“I am writing a story about the report that McAuliffe hired Marc Elias, potentially to challenge the election results. Would the campaign explain the purpose of the hiring?” O’Neil asked.

Freundlich responded to the email with a message apparently meant for fellow campaign staffers, saying, “Can we try to kill this.”

A staff member must have responded to Freundlich, who further explained, again in an email apparently not meant for Fox, writing, “To dispute the challenges of the election.”

The McAuliffe campaign did not respond to Fox on the record regarding the questions O’Neil asked in his original email.

The spokesperson for Terry McAuliffe’s Virginia gubernatorial campaign acknowledged her effort to try and “kill” a story about his campaign reportedly spending $60,000 to hire a high-profile attorney known for masterminding election-related legal challenges.

“I think it’s clear based on this story that we did in fact…kill the story,” McAuliffe spokesperson Christina Freundlich tweeted Thursday night in response to a Fox News article revealing an email she mistakenly sent to a Fox News reporter asking her colleagues to attempt to “kill” a story he was working on.


Freundlich was widely criticized for the tweet which seemed to ignore that the story of her mistakenly-sent email had amplified the reporter’s initial question on Twitter and across the media.

“I killed the story that I am talking about and everyone is currently reading about,” Spectator Editor Stephen L. Miller tweeted. “Just top notch stuff there.”

Objective failed,” Washington Examiner editor Timothy Nerozzi tweeted.

National Director of Research of School Choice Now Corey A. DeAngelis responded with simply, “what.”

Perhaps it’s not so surprising that McAuliffe would turn to Elias given their mutual connections to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

McAuliffe served as co-chair of Bill’s 1996 presidential re-election campaign and was campaign chair of Hillary’s 2008 bid for the presidency.

Elias was general counsel for Hillary’s 2016 campaign, while still at Perkins Coie.