Report: Trump Sitting On Fox Bombshells

[kpete]

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 [Ailes] 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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fox-news-ace-to-play-against-fox-news_us_5701c438e4b083f5c607fedd

[malaise]

1. Please proceed scumbags

[jaysunb]

5. Pretty please ! LOL n/t

[malaise]

6. With a cherry on top

[Jackie Wilson Said]

2. And the citizens sit back and allow these criminals

to get more and more power, more and more money.

sick

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Well, he could take down the GOP -and- FOX News

Why, that would be terrible!

[joeybee12]

4. I had an original rude vision...since Fox is known for Bombshells

Of the blonde variety...series-ly, I thought this was going to be a very rude OP

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. The New York Magazine article this comes from:

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

There's a lot in it; as Jonathan Chait said, "Also notable is that @gabrielsherman's invented new method here: in-sentence fact-checking"

Trump is cheap, and proud of it. Indeed, Lewandowski’s bonus for winning New Hampshire was a paltry $50,000. It’s part of Trump’s central argument: He will run the government like a business. (Though, truth be told, there are few businesses that operate the way his does: Trump’s company is primarily a marketing vehicle at this point, licensing his name to other firms’ developments.) “I don’t spend much money,” he told me. “In New Hampshire, I spent $2 million” — actually $3.7 million — “Bush spent $48 million” — actually $36.1 million — “I came in first in a landslide, he came in sixth” — actually fourth. “Who do you want as your president?”

Well, I'd rather have a president who doesn't just casually lie, since you ask. The people around Trump are, unsurprisingly, douchebags too.