How Donald Trump Got the Upper Hand on Fox News

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Host Brian Stelter explores Donald Trump’s tangled relationship with Fox News with Sarah Ellison, national enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, and Oliver Darcy, senior media reporter at CNN. Trump’s decision this week to skip the first Republican debate on Fox News only escalates his war with the Murdochs, even as the cable channel’s hosts remain largely in the former president's corner. And given Trump’s commanding lead in the 2024 primary, it’s looking like Fox needs Trump more than he needs them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So right now, the relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump is what?
0:07.8	On very shaky ground, I'd say, there is not much love between Rupert Murdoch and Donald
0:12.3	Trump these days.
0:14.2	But they always come back together, don't they?
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	And they're still doing, or at least Rupert's still doing Trump's bidding, but there's
0:22.1	no amount of propaganda that Fox News can pedal that will be sufficient for Donald Trump.
0:28.9	He always wants more.
0:29.9	And I think that's what you're seeing right now with him bashing the network, even though
0:34.8	it continues to traffic and dishonest rhetoric aimed at protecting him from these foreign
0:40.2	indictments he's faced this summer.
0:44.8	That is Oliver Darcy, CNN's senior media reporter, and expert in all things rightway media.
0:50.6	We're also joined by Sarah Ellison, a Vanity Fair alum, now a national enterprise reporter
0:55.2	at the Washington Post, out with two news stories about Fox, Trump, and Murdoch.
1:01.0	And I'm Brian Salder, welcome to Inside the High from Vanity Fair.
1:05.4	Today we're going inside Fox and Trump, this twisted, distorted relationship that influences
1:11.6	American politics.
1:13.4	We're taping this episode on Wednesday, August 23rd, the day of the first GOP debate of
1:18.1	the season.
1:19.1	It is the debate on Fox News, but not with Donald Trump.
1:23.1	As you know, Trump snubbing the debate, snubbing Fox, punishing them for, as you said, Oliver,
1:29.4	insufficient loyalty.
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