White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said Trump had "no knowledge" of the story before it was published.
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Fox News responds to lawsuit claiming it concocted Seth Rich story with White House knowledge
The lawsuit claims that Fox used Wheeler to detract coverage of the Russia investigation.
Rod Wheeler has been working at Fox News since 2002.
"There is no excuse for the suffering that Trump’s associates and their conspirators at FOX have caused the Rich family and those closest to him," Xochitl Hinojosa, the DNC's communications director, told Business Insider in an email. "Both parties should denounce these sick and twisted tactics."
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