Trump’s Rage at Fox News for Crossing Him Hints at a Darker Story

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week, Donald Trump raged at a Fox News poll finding behind, and lashed out at Fox for featuring a guest who dared criticize him. Trump regularly unloads on Fox when it doesn’t follow his script, which is remarkable, given that Fox is usually committed to deceiving its viewers on his behalf. Both Trump and Fox draw on a long history, in which grift and scams have been deeply intertwined with the American right for over a half century. We talked to journalist Joe Conason, author of a new book called: “The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism,” about the place of the tortured Trump-Fox relationship in that long, ugly story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:39.9	This week, Donald Trump erupted at Fox News not once, but twice. He raged over a Fox News poll that found President Biden leading Trump nationally and lashed out at the network for featuring a guest who was critical of him. This is an occasion to revisit one of this podcast's favorite topics, the centrality of sheer grift to the Trump
2:02.5	MAGA project. Trump regularly rages at Fox when it doesn't read from his precise script,
2:09.2	which is remarkable given that Fox is usually fully committed to deceiving its viewers on his
2:14.3	behalf. But both Trump and Fox drawn a long history in which grift and scams have
2:20.8	been deeply intertwined with the American right for over half a century. And today we're discussing
2:26.2	this with the perfect guest, journalist Joe Connison, author of a new book called The Longest Connest
2:32.1	How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American
2:36.8	Conservatism. Great to have you on, Joe. Good to be with you, Greg. So a Fox poll found
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