What dirt does Donald Trump have on Fox News? New report claims Roger Ailes is afraid to attack the mogul because he has an ‘arsenal’ of information that could destroy the network…(We Can Hope!)
In a new cover story in New York magazine, reporter Gabriel Sherman details how Donald Trump came to have insider information on Fox News
In 2014, Sherman published an embarrassing biography of Roger Ailes which led the Fox News CEO to fire his PR adviser Brian Lewis
During severance negotiations, Lewis hired powerhouse litigator Judd Burstein and said he had ‘bombs’ that could bring down Fox
Trump says Ailes asked him to mediate the situation, since he once worked with Burstein
Fox ended up paying Lewis million to keep quiet, but Trump reportedly learned everything he planned to leak
‘If Ailes ever truly went to war against Trump, Trump would have the arsenal to launch a retaliatory strike,’ Sherman writes
That could explain why Ailes and Fox haven’t come out harder against Trump, even as he continues to publicly attack star anchor Megyn Kelly
By ASHLEY COLLMAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
4 April 2016
A new report in New York magazine is shedding light on Donald Trump’s baffling drama with Fox News.
Reporter Gabriel Sherman purports that Trump has insider information on the news network that has kept CEO and GOP power-broker Roger Ailes from declaring outright war against the mogul.
In 2014, Sherman wrote a biography on Ailes titled The Loudest Voice in the Room, a book so damaging it led Ailes to fire his PR adviser Brian Lewis, certain Lewis had been an anonymous source for the book.
When he was fired, Lewis went on a rampage, threatening to drop ‘bombs’ that would destroy both Ailes and Fox News.
It was when Lewis hired powerhouse litigator Judd Burstein to represent him in severance negotiations with Fox News that Trump says he got involved, since he previously worked with Burstein.
‘When Roger was having problems, he didn’t call 97 people, he called me,’ Trump told the magazine. ‘Roger [Ailes] had lawyers, very expensive lawyers, and they couldn’t do anything. I solved the problem.’
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