• March 28, 2024

News Report Says Trump Has Information That Could Destroy Roger Ailes and Fox News

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For a long time, people have wondered why Fox News doesn’t come down harder on Donald Trump.  A reporter for The New York Magazine says he has the answer.  Reporter Gabriel Sherman claims he knows why Fox News is reticent to go to war against Trump.  In 2014, Sherman released a biography on Ailes called The Loudest Voice in the Room.  The book was so damaging to Ailes that he fired his PR adviser Brian Lewis because he was certain that he was the anonymous source for the book.  Lewis in turn declared that he had information that could destroy both Ailes and Fox News.

Lewis hired the high powered attorney Judd Burstein, to represent him in the severance negotiations.  Those negotiations were going nowhere, when Ailes asked Donald Trump, who had worked with Lewis previously to become involved.  He did and Lewis collected several million dollars to keep his mouth shut.  In the process, Sherman says that Trump learned what Lewis had on his former employers.  He says that is why they have not gone ballistic on Trump, even though they did give him a short shrift in favor of Marco Rubio.

In the past, Donald Trump has taken credit for saving Fox News in the negotiations.  Sherman’s explanation could very well hold water.

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