Bombshell New York Magazine Story on FOX and Trump

[Ebsy]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/inside-the-donald-trump-presidential-campaign.html

It was also thanks to some information he had gathered that Trump was able to do something that no other Republican has done before: take on Fox News. An odd bit of coincidence had given him a card to play against Fox founder Roger Ailes. In 2014, I published a biography of Ailes, which upset the famously paranoid executive. Several months before it landed in stores, Ailes fired his longtime PR adviser Brian Lewis, accusing him of being a source. During Lewis’s severance negotiations, Lewis hired Judd Burstein, a powerhouse litigator, and claimed he had “bombs” that would destroy Ailes and Fox News. That’s when Trump got involved.

“When Roger was having problems, he didn’t call 97 people, he called me,” Trump said. Burstein, it turned out, had worked for Trump briefly in the ’90s, and Ailes asked Trump to mediate. Trump ran the negotiations out of his office at Trump Tower. “Roger had lawyers, very expensive lawyers, and they couldn’t do anything. I solved the problem.” Fox paid Lewis millions to go away quietly, and Trump, I’m told, learned everything Lewis had planned to leak. If Ailes ever truly went to war against Trump, Trump would have the arsenal to launch a retaliatory strike.

[Gass3268]

This is glorious. You reap what you sow.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole.

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Poor Gilmore didn't get to be on the wall of shame.

[MK]

Honestly from what i wacth on Fox compared to the others (I wacth them all) they seem at times least anti-trump.  Sure some of the Establishment heads are negative on him but that's a given.  Actually Msnbc and CNN smear Trump the worst( indirect way) the abortion and KKK questions was a prime example. 

Never understood why Trump likes to kick foxnews and Megan Kelly soo much. 

[Meclazine for Israel]

CNN hate him, but FOX dont do him any favours either.

Guess Trump is not friends with Rupert Murdoch.

[Fargobison]

CNN hate him, but FOX dont do him any favours either.

Guess Trump is not friends with Rupert Murdoch.

You ever watch one of the 100 Fox News Trump Town Halls?

This is the typical Q and A....

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[Seriously?]

I know a lot of people on this Forum don't likely agree, but if Trump is one thing, he's a gentleman when it comes to these kind of things. Even though he can use it against Ailes, I don't think he would.  Unless, of course, Ailes breaks Trump's confidence by releasing something about him that he shouldn't.

The one memory that I have from the debates is that ridiculous ABC debate where they were calling out the candidates like they were NFL football players. Carson didn't hear his cue. Rather than walk past him like the rest of the a-holes, Trump stood back with Carson until they announced everyone. Showed a bit of class.