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Just before midnight on May 15, 2017, the night before the Zimmerman article was published, Butowsky sent an email regarding Zimmerman's Seth Rich story to various Fox News producers and on air talent, including Steve Doocy, Gavin Hadden, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade. The email reads, in part "If you have any questions about the story or more information needed, call me at 972-[XXX-XXXX]. I'm actually the one who's been putting this together but as you know I keep my name out of things because I have no credibility. One of the big conclusions we need to draw from this is that the Russians did not hack our computer systems Russians At approximately the same time, Butowsky sent a text message to Mr Wheeler that reads, in part, "he narrative in the interviews you might The next morning, Butowsky sent text messages to Mr. Wheeler that read in part, "If you can, try to highlight this puts the Russian hacking story to rest." "Just reflecting: we need to emphasize the FBI has a report recently being fired this will gain a lot of attention and it's true." "The

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EB ED Sun, May 14, 9:10 PM Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It's now all up to you. But don't feel the pressure
because much, much of the information did not come from me." In response, Zimmerman admitted: "Umm, well not not notNot the part ahout the emails.Not the part about I mean about the connection to WikiLeaks, but the rest of the quotes in the story did. A lot of the 23 Case 1:17-cv-05807 Document 1 Filed 08/01/17 Page 24 of 33 quotes in the story did." Later in the same conversation, Butowsky also conceded that the quotes were not made by Mr. Wheeler: "Olne day you're going to win an award forhaving said those things you didn't say" Indeed, in another conversation, Mr. Butowsky read, from the article, to
On April 20, a month before the story ran, Butowsky and Wheeler - the investor and the investigator - met at the White House with then Press Secretary Sean Spicer to brief him on what they were uncovering. The first page of the lawsuit quotes a voicemail and text from Butowsky boasting that President Trump himself had reviewed drafts of the Fox News story just before it went to air and was published. Spicer now tells NPR that he took the meeting as a favor to Butowsky, a reliable Republican voice. Spicer says he was unaware of any contact involving the president. Butowsky now tells NPR he was kidding about Trump's involvement. "Rod Wheeler unfortunately was used as a pawn by Ed Butowsky, Fox News and the Trump administration to try and steer away the attention that was being given about the Russian hacking of the DNC e-mails," said Douglas Wigdor, Wheeler's lawver.
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