Roger Ailes and Fox News are in a panic. They know that if Donald Trump ducks the GOP debate tomorrow, there wouldn’t be as many people watching the debate. This translates inot much lower ad revenue. So even after Roger Ailes released a childish memo bashing Trump before he even announced he’s skipping the debate, Ailes in in a panic. He’s basically begging Trump’s daughter and wife to make him do the debate. Trump is refusing to speak with anyone at Fox aside from old codger Rupert Murdoch.
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The Fox News and Donald Trump feud is heating up now that the Republican front-runner has announced he will not be attending the network’s debate Thursday night over the presence of anchor Megyn Kelly.
And while the network appears to be publicly siding with Kelly, who is still set to moderate Thursday’s debate, the network is also reportedly trying to privately plead with Trump the best way they know how – through the women in his life.
Joe Scarborough, who has a close relationship with many people at Fox News, revealed on Morning Joe Wednesday morning that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes had been trying to contact both Ivanka and Melania Trump hoping they could convince Trump to change his mind, but that Trump would only speak to Rupert Murdoch.
Trump maybe able to address some of these issues and claims Wednesday night as he is set to appear on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor.
Kelly meanwhile welcomed a surprisingly liberal guest on her program Tuesday night, Michael Moore.
The documentary filmmaker was there to promote his new film Where to Invade Next?, but also took time to applaud Kelly and ask how she was dealing with the very public feud between her and Trump while mocking the presidential hopeful over his refusal to attend the debate.
Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski continued with their unified attack on Kelly Wednesday morning during an appearance on Good Morning America saying that the anchor is ‘completely obsessed’ with the presidential hopeful.
Neither side is looking good here. Donald Trump by skipping the debate gives his haters fresh material to bash him with, calling him Donald the Duck, the coward, etc. Roger Ailes and Fox News look like asses after that memo and subsequent statements about Trump. The only winner in all of this is Ted Cruz.