Fox News is the number one rated cable news network in America.
And Fox’s audience has only grown since the election as viewers understood it was the one cable news channel that told the truth about the 2024 election.
But now Fox News is under attack because of this bombshell book.
Fox News accused of feeding questions to Donald Trump
A fixture of Donald Trump’s first term was the anti-Trump book.
Journalists and turncoats that quit the administration cashed in big time as resistance libs lapped any book that fed them stories – true or not – that confirmed all their worst nightmares about Donald Trump.
With Trump set to return to power, members of the press are probing to see if there is still juice left in the anti-Trump book market.
POLITICO’s Alex Isenstadt was first out of the gate.
Isenstadt authored Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power.
The book contains an anecdote about Trump’s preparation for a January 2024 town hall broadcast by Fox News and moderated by anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Isenstadt claimed someone at Fox News fed Trump and his team the questions Baier and MacCallum planned to ask Trump in advance.
“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox. Holy s–t, the team thought. They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot. This was like a student getting a peek at the test before the exam started,” Isenstadt wrote.
Isenstadt also claimed Trump and his team gained advanced knowledge that Baier and MacCallum “planned to ask Trump if he would divest from his businesses if he won, and whether the party was taking a risk nominating him given his indictments,” and to “press Trump to ‘disavow political violence’” and ask about his focus on “retribution.”
Fox News released a statement saying they had no evidence anyone passed questions to Trump and pointed out that Isenstadt offered no proof to back up his allegations.
Nevertheless, Fox said it would conduct an investigation to see if there was any validity to these claims.
“While we do not have any evidence of this occurring, and Alex Isenstadt has conveniently refused to release the images for fact checking, we take these matters very seriously and plan to investigate should there prove to be a breach within the network,” the Fox statement read.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung put out a statement distancing Trump from these allegations.
“President Trump was the most accessible and transparent candidate in American history, and it’s a big reason why he won in historic fashion,” Cheung declared.
A source with knowledge of Fox’s internal working told Mediaite that if there was any breach it couldn’t have come from Baier and MacCallum or any of the top members of the editorial team.
“If there was a breach, it was not from Bret or Martha or the top editorial levels of the network and there is a sophisticated and extensive digital footprint of all editorial material,” the source stated.