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How Roger Ailes is shaping Donald Trump’s debate prep
The former Fox News chief started advising Trump at a private lunch just days before the launch of his campaign, and regularly offered him advice over the course of the primaries, sources familiar with the discussions said. Trump and Ailes met in person several times between June 2015 and June 2016 -- almost always at Fox News headquarters -- and spoke frequently on the phone, the sources said.
Once rivals and allies, Clinton, Schumer eye new partnership
In this Sept. 11, 2003 file photo, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., center, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, bow their heads during a moment of silence as they join mourners gathering to remember those lost during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center at ground zero in New York.
Kellyanne Conway Continues Charade That Roger Ailes Has No Role In Trump’s Campaign
Why Trump's staff continues to pretend that Roger Ailes has no role in the Trump campaign border on the bizarre. Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, deflected a question this morning on whether Roger Ailes' advising Trump on debate prep is inappropriate in light of the sexual harassment allegations made against the former Fox News chairman.
Trump-Bondi creeps into the New York Times. Barely.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Oh my: Fox to give Carlson $20 million and an apology to settle sexual harassment suit
Gretchen Carlson just won her battle with Fox News and Roger Ailes, and will even get a public vindication of her fight. According to Vanity Fair , Fox News has settled her sexual harassment suit involving recently-departed chief Roger Ailes for a whopping $20 million.
Trump’s call for high-skill immigration is no ‘hate speech’
Would he go hard or would he go soft? That was the mainstream media template for judging Donald Trump's speech on immigration in Phoenix last Wednesday. The verdict: hard.
Ryan Lochte’s Girlfriend Toasts The End Of Summer With Sizzling Picture [PHOTO]
Playboy Playmate Kayla Rae Reid attends the Playboy Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on August 27, 2016 in Las Vegas. Reid posted a picture of herself not covering much up while tanning, with the caption, "Another beautiful day in LA."
Donald Trump campaign hires Citizens United president
Donald Trump's new deputy campaign manager is the longtime president of Citizen United - the conservative non-profit infamously known for helping to scale back regulations on political spending and OKing unlimited buys for corporations. "A friend of mine for many years," Trump told the Washington Post .
Earnest Scolds NYT For Not Giving Obama Credit For Transparency
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest wrote a letter to The New York Times criticizing it for failing to acknowledge what he called "the important and unprecedented steps that the Obama administration has taken to fulfill the president's promise to lead the most transparent White House in history."
First Read’s Morning Clips: On the Border
From Benjy Sarlin and Hallie Jackson : "Immigration experts across the political and ideological spectrum are eagerly awaiting any clarity they can get after parsing through a blizzard of inscrutable quotes from Trump and his campaign." More, from the Washington Post: "PeA a Nieto last Friday invited both Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to visit Mexico, his office said in a statement provided to The Washington Post on Tuesday night.
Editor’s Letter: Turn Off Trump TV
It makes sense that former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes and Breitbart 's executive chairman Stephen Bannon are now adviser and chief executive, respectively, for the Donald Trump campaign. Ailes, who the campaign insists has no formal or informal role, turned Fox News into the de facto mouthpiece for the GOP; Breitbart , the site for those who think Fox News is too namby-pamby, was instrumental in the proliferation of birtherism, the rise of Tea Party darling Sarah Palin, and the propagation of the idea that the American straight white Christian man is losing ground to people of color, women, queers, and infidels; and both outlets constantly echo the strains of American nationalism.
Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown named in Fox News sexual harassment lawsuit
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said in a lawsuit filed Monday that she was sexually harassed by former network chief Roger Ailes and other top executives - including former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown. Tantaros said in the lawsuit that Brown, who represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 2010 to 2013, "made a number of sexually inappropriate comments," to her when he appeared on her show "Outnumbered," on Aug. 18, 2015, "I have no knowledge of what she's referring to.
FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others
Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter. The intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies.
Former anchor says Fox News a ‘sex-fueled cult’ in harassment lawsuit
A former Fox News anchor claims in a lawsuit that former network Chairman Roger Ailes, who resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment and is reportedly advising Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, fueled a misogynistic culture at the top-rated channel enforced by other executives. Andrea Tantaros said she was taken off the air in April in retaliation for rebuffing Ailes' advances and complaining to top officials at Fox News, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc ( The defendants include Fox, Ailes, William Shine, who was named co-president of the network when Ailes resigned last month, and three other company officials.
The Incredibly Sexist Interview Andrea Tantaros Discusses In Her Lawsuit Against Roger Ailes
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros alleges in a sexual harassment lawsuit that after she rebuffed advances from then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, the network denied requests from "prominent and credible media outlets to interview Tantaros" but arranged for her participation in an interview with "a website reportedly controlled by Ailes" where the interviewer humiliated her with questions about her breasts and other "outrageous" queries. The website's resulting write-up of that interview discussed Tantaros' "physical attractiveness" repeatedly and in detail and mentioned that the interviewer asked her questions about "frequent" online descriptions of her regarding "her physical attributes."
Sheriff: Face-biting suspect may have ingested chemical
The disclosure that some pills found at Prince's Paisley Park home and studio were counterfeit and contained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl strongly suggests the pills came to the superstar musician... The disclosure that some pills found at Prince's Paisley Park home and studio were counterfeit and contained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl strongly suggests the pills came to the superstar musician illegally. A South Carolina mother is charged with killing her infant son by putting him in the refrigerator for several hours.
The Latest: Massacre suspect charged with 6 counts of murder
Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, will be charged wi... . Crime scene tape marks the home on Jim Platt Road near Citronelle, Ala., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, where authorities said five people were killed on Saturday.
Trump Begins Preparing for Debates
Donald Trump "began preparing on Sunday for his first general election debate against Hillary Clinton, with a meeting at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.," the New York Times reports. "Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman who helped prepare George Bush to debate Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race, is advising Mr. Trump as he begins to focus on the debate, scheduled for Sept.
NYT report: Trump owes money to Bank of China, Goldman Sachs | Colorado Springs Gazette, News
The New York Times published on Saturday a detailed analysis of Donald Trump's business dealings and found that his real estate holdings are racked in debt and he owes money to some organizations he has consistently criticized on the campaign trail. The report into the " financial maze " of Trump's business dealings found that companies he owns have accrued $650 million in debt.