Trump-Camp received questions in advance for Fox News Town Hall, new book reported
Trump-Camp received questions in advance for Fox News Town Hall, new book reported
The team of the elected President Donald Trump is said to have received questions in advance that FOX news moderators put news moderators at a citizens' meeting in Iowa in January in January. This would be a serious violation of journalistic ethics.
insight into "Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power"
The report that Fox News wants to check according to its own statement comes from the book "Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power" by Alex Isenstadt, a political reporter at Politico. Isenstadt carried out over 300 interviews and based on internal memorands, notes and records as well as regular reports from Palm Beach and a flight with Trump in June 2023.
The relationship between Trump and Fox News
In two exclusive extracts that were made available CNN, Isenstadt describes the close relationship between Trump and the members of Fox News. In January 2024, Trump had planned a citizens' meeting with voters from Iowa, which was to be directed by the FOX news moderators Bret Baier and Martha Maccallum. However, not all of Trump's consultants were in favor of participating in this event.
"You were still upset about Fox, whose reporting you found it hostile and did not want the former president to take part in the prime time event," writes Isenstadt. "But Trump had a good relationship with Baier - they were golf colleagues - and wanted to do the conversation."
preparations and answers to critical questions
In contrast to other moderators from Fox, Baier and Maccallum were known to ask harder questions to the former president. Trump's consultants were concerned that they would question him to his negative attitude towards political violence and his future plans if he won the re -election. According to Isenstadt, Trump did not take the preparation for the program seriously and planned to answer spontaneously."About thirty minutes before the start of the citizens' meeting, a senior employee began to get text messages from a person from Fox. Saint shit, the team thought. There were pictures of all questions that should be asked, as well as the planned question - right up to the exact wording. Jackpot. That was as if a student could take a look at the exam questions before the test," reports Isenstadt.
questions about political responsibility
Baier and Maccallum planned to ask Trump whether he would repel his business in the event of a victory and whether the party would take a risk to nominate him because of his charges. They also wanted to ask Trump to "reject political violence" and ask him whether his house "would be focused on retribution".
"Trump was angry", writes Isenstadt, because he felt the questions as "attacks" that aimed to put him in a defensive position. However, the team prepared answers with the questions in hand.
reactions from Fox News and the upcoming book
When asked about the description, a spokesman for Fox said: "Although we have no evidence of these claims and fortunately Alex Isenstadt has refused to publish the pictures for review, we take such matters very seriously and plan, should there be a violation within the network."
The spokesman also rejected the characterization that Baier and Trump were "golf colleagues" because they had only played together a few times in the past ten years.
Additional information about Trump and Bartiromo
The upcoming communication director of the White House, Steven Cheung, did not comment directly on the claims of the book regarding the citizens' meeting, but said in a statement to CNN: "President Trump was the most accessible and transparent candidate in the history of America, which was a major reason for his historical victory."
In another part of the book, Isenstadt reports that Trump was seriously considering choosing Fox Business moderator Maria Bartiromo as his vice candidate before his team put him off. Bartiromo has been a "Trump favorite" in recent years due to her passionate defense of Trump and numerous "gentle interviews".
Isenstadt states that Trump was "seriously interested in Bartiromo and argued for her during the flight to Butler (Pennsylvania). She got along well with the big donors of Wall Street and knew how to do TV," he reported.
But Trump's team explained that "there was no time to check Bartiromo as they had done with other candidates for months", and the head of the staff, Susie Wiles, ended the conversation.
On request,cheung did not comment directly on the claims about Bartiromo and said: "Vice President and candidate Vance was the perfect choice for President Trump's Vice."
"Revenge" should appear at the Grand Central Publishing in March.
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