Where Ailes appears
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Ailes seemed to balance regret that he had not seized the chance
…s angry common man was another sign that we were living in an upside-down world. The joke was on somebody—and Ailes thought it might be on him. Still, Ailes had been observing politicians for decades, and in his long career he had witnessed...
Now, however reluctantly, Ailes understood that, at least for the moment, he was passing the right-wing torch to Bannon. It was a torch that burned bright with ironies. Ailes’s Fox News, with its $1.5 billion in annual profits, had dominate...
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Ailes said he gave up trying to give advice, that Trump was the boy in pre-school who you just knew was going to throw a truck at...
… in Farmingdale, Long Island. Accompanying Hannity was a small group of current and former Fox employees, all Ailes and Trump partisans. But each felt some open angst, or even incredulity, about Trump being Trump: first there was the diffic...
” said Ailes. “But Trump would jump through hoops for Rupert. Like for
” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him.
though Ailes was well aware that in politics
Ailes seemed to balance regret that he had not seized the chance
less than a month after Ailes had been ousted from Fox News
” said Ailes. “But Trump would jump through hoops for Rupert. Like for
but you don’t know Washington.” Ailes had a suggestion: “Speaker
” Ailes told Trump not long after the election. “You’ll want to be your
and clear electability, Bannon would not have had his chance. However much a marginal, invisible, small-time hustler Bannon had been—something of an Elmore Leonard character—he was suddenly transformed inside Trump Tower, an office he enter...
