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Trump Campaign Manager Reveals Fox News Debate Chief Has Daughter Working for Rubio
Breitbart ^ | 1/28/2016 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 01/28/2016 6:13:01 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, exposed a blatant conflict of interest on Wednesday that the Fox News Channel has been hiding for months.

Lewandowski showed how Fox News has been hiding the fact that Fox News Channel Vice President Bill Sammon has a daughter working for the campaign of the Washington establishment-backed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

Sammon's daughter, Brooke Sammon, is Rubio's national press secretary, and obviously both have a vested interest in the success of the Rubio campaign and the demise of the other campaigns.

CNN's Erin Burnett asked Lewandowski about Fox News's controversial anti-Trump statement from Tuesday evening--and specifically the network's claim that the top Trump aide had allegedly made threats against Fox News anchor and Thursday debate co-moderator Megyn Kelly--when he responded by dropping the explosive revelation.

Lewandowski revealed two things for the first time: that the executive he was discussing matters with was Bill Sammon, and that Sammon's daughter Brooke Sammon works for Rubio's campaign, giving the first-term Floridian Senator an obvious boost. That blatant conflict of interest has never before been disclosed to the viewers of Fox News by the network.

"Not only did I not make threats, but the conversation with the Fox News executive--his daughter works for the Rubio campaign, he's one of the executives on Fox that writes the debate questions so maybe he has his own ulterior motives, I'm not sure," Lewandowski told Burnett in the Wednesday evening CNN interview. He went on:

But his daughter is a senior executive on the Rubio campaign, maybe he should disclose that before he's writing the debate questions for Fox.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 01/28/2016 6:13:01 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Simply question. Why is choosing the moderators for a Presidential candidate debate more important to Fox News then having the front running Presidential candidate at the debate? Are the candidates or the Networks the focus of the debate?

That right there shows just why this whole “debate” process is totally messed up. The “Journalists” now think they are part of the story, not there to report on the event.


2 posted on 01/28/2016 6:15:23 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I was thinking that there was a chance that Trump would appear, but too many shenanigans by Fox are coming to light.


3 posted on 01/28/2016 6:16:09 AM PST by odawg
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Breitbart has an article by Michelle Malkin - Murdoch has basically endorsed Rubio.

How on earth is a completely biased news network going to conduct an unbiased debate?

Well played, Mr. Trump.


4 posted on 01/28/2016 6:16:47 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: MNJohnnie

Yep.


5 posted on 01/28/2016 6:17:12 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel ("God only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defence." (Psa 62:2))
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To: MNJohnnie
this whole “debate” process is totally messed up. The “Journalists” now think they are part of the story, not there to report on the event.

They have always thought it, because it was true....until now. If debates were so important why are Hillary's debates in the middle of the night?

6 posted on 01/28/2016 6:18:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Shocked.
I thought it would be Yeb!


7 posted on 01/28/2016 6:18:41 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It’s just a giant fricking whore house!!!!


8 posted on 01/28/2016 6:18:47 AM PST by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: MNJohnnie

FWIW, for some of the more recent debates, other networks have put the grownups in charge as moderators, and there haven’t been problems.


9 posted on 01/28/2016 6:18:52 AM PST by grania
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To: DungeonMaster

Yep, it is.


10 posted on 01/28/2016 6:20:19 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Just commented in an earlier thread that it seems to new go-to guy for FoxNews/Stirwalt is Rubio, because Rubio has moved up a couple of points.

It does seem, sans Trump, the debate contenders are supposed to try to take Cruz out.

Of course, taking Cruz out could be a big coup for FoxNews and one or two of the contenders, but that would likely only give more points to Trump.


11 posted on 01/28/2016 6:20:33 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Even Cruz supporters should find this upsetting as Fox is not kind to Cruz either. Let’s see honesty here.


12 posted on 01/28/2016 6:21:51 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Rubio???

If it doesn’t scare away Cruz then why is Trump so scared?

Debating Hillary will be 10X tougher than what FNC has planned.

Cruz is getting ready for the big fight, while Don ditches,


13 posted on 01/28/2016 6:22:51 AM PST by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait')
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

You’re not going to find anyone anywhere that is truly unbiased, we all have preferences about who we’d rather see win this election. But journalists are supposed to at least behave as if they were unbiased. The previous Fox debate was pathetic, not just the first tier, but the second tier debate as well. The people who ran that debate which includes Chris Wallace as well as Kelly should be persona non grata at any future debate. Amazingly Fox’s handling of that debate was worse than any of the others.

Cruz is my guy, with Trump in second, and I’m certainly enjoying the pot-shots in both directions because of Trump’s decision not to play. Rand’s statement that the IQ of the debate just went up is funny and somewhat true... but the IQ of the debate went way up when Fox Business handled the debate and Kelly and Wallace were nowhere around. Kelly and Wallace were an embarrassment. Kelly and Wallace lowered the IQ of the debate.

Trump should be clear that it isn’t just Kelly, its Fox that is the problem.


14 posted on 01/28/2016 6:23:22 AM PST by marron
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Right, because we all know that fathers always agree with their daughters choices.


15 posted on 01/28/2016 6:23:49 AM PST by Dstorm (Cruz 2016)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

This may be surprising to some, but the connections between News organizations and Politicians in Washington is rampant if not incestuous. There are countless marriages and sibling relationships between so-called journalists and politicians (Mostly on the Democrat side)to make one wonder if you can ever trust the news.


16 posted on 01/28/2016 6:24:58 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (frequently.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/26/anti-trump-network-fox-news-money-flows-open-borders-group/

While Megyn Kelly made headlines with her heated questioning of Donald Trump, not one of the Fox News anchors asked Rubio in the first Fox News debate about his signature piece of legislation, which Murdoch's immigration lobbying firm had endorsed. Instead, they lobbed Rubio a series of softballs, such as asking Rubio if he could put God and veterans in the same sentence.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/13/grover-norquist-lobbying-gop-congress-for-amnesty-bill/

Last year, Norquist partnered with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pro-amnesty Partnership for a New American Economy last year to hold monthly conference calls with lawmakers to strategize on amnesty legislation.

Norquist also hailed the passage of the Senate's Gang of Eight's comprehensive amnesty bill, which the Congress Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers.

Look who is behind Rubio and McCain!

17 posted on 01/28/2016 6:25:09 AM PST by maggief
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

How is the fact Sammon’s adult daughter’s decision to work for one of the campaigns a “conflict of interest?”

If she worked for the Trump campaign, nobody would be squawking about it.


18 posted on 01/28/2016 6:25:37 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: sickoflibs

Who says he has to debate Hillary. No rules only results. He is running the clock out in Iowa because he can.

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19 posted on 01/28/2016 6:28:25 AM PST by magua
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I would really like to see ordinary plain boring salt-of-the-earth persons with college degrees and a talent of grammar ask the frickin’ questions.

MeGYN and the rest of the ‘news stars’ and ‘news babes’ can go strut their stuff on the street as far as I care.


20 posted on 01/28/2016 6:28:33 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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