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Donald Trump audio leak dominates the news... except on Fox News

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Jason Abbruzzese

on October 7, 2016

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Leaked audio of a lewd conversation between Donald Trump and Today Show host Billy Bush dominated the media's attention on Friday afternoon.

Except for Fox News.

The right-leaning cable news channel only briefly touched on the audio, which caught Trump talking about trying to have sex with a married woman.

"I did try and fuck her, she was married," Trump said in the clip. "I moved on her like a bitch."

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He added, he was "automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them, it's like a magnet. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it ... Grab them by the pussy."

Instead of covering the Trump leak, Fox News covered the Hillary Clinton email leak, Hurricane Matthew and a variety of other topics.

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The audio was published by the Washington Post on Friday afternoon, triggering a firestorm of coverage. MSNBC and CNN covered the tapes almost constantly throughout the late afternoon.

Fox News only touched on the Trump audio briefly in its group talk show, The Five, for about five minutes.

It appeared that FoxNews.com, however, was covering the tape.

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Jason Abbruzzese

Jason Abbruzzese is a Business Reporter at Mashable. He covers the media and telecom industries with a particular focus on how the Internet is changing these markets and impacting consumers. Prior to working at Mashable, Jason served as Markets Reporter and Web Producer at the Financial Times. Jason holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Australian National University.