Posted on 03/23/2023 2:42:16 PM PDT by conservative98
Donald Trump’s reported “soft ban” from Fox News is at an end, and he’s getting the band back together for the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
Trump will appear on prime-time host Sean Hannity’s show next Monday, the network announced on Wednesday. The interview will mark Trump’s first Fox appearance since September 2022, according to the Media Matters database. Fox weekend host Mark Levin let slip on his radio show the day before that he will also interview Trump the following Sunday.
Trump’s return to the network that served as his personal propaganda organ during his presidency follows a stormy month that led some observers to question whether the Fox-Trump relationship had suffered an irrevocable rupture.
Filings in Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox revealed in late February that Rupert Murdoch, Fox’s co-founder and the head of its parent company, had said in a deposition that he never believed Trump’s claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him and privately bashed the then-president as “increasingly mad.”
Trump responded to those revelations with a series of posts on his Truth Social platform in which he described Fox as a “RINO network” and Murdoch as a “MAGA Hating Globalist RINO,” and called on Murdoch to “apologize to his viewers and readers for his ridiculous defense of the 2020 Presidential Election.”
Meanwhile, members of Trump’s orbit complained to Semafor that he had been hit with a “soft ban” from Fox, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential Republican candidate for president and network favorite, received more weekly mentions than Trump for the first time this year as Fox personalities touted his new book and his nascent campaign.
But while Fox and Trump have often squabbled like this over the years, each side gets far too much benefit from their partnership to permanently break it. Fox provides Trump with a tool to reach his supporters and craft his message, while his iron grip on the Republican voters who constitute its audience makes him invaluable to Fox.
As we’ve seen with past instances in which observers claimed that Fox had abandoned Trump, the prospect of external attacks on the former president sent the network scurrying back into his camp. Fox hosts have spent this week furiously defending Trump after he claimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe of his alleged role in a $130,000 hush-money payment made to porn actor Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2020 election was about to lead to his arrest. Meanwhile, new polling showed Trump holding a dominant position in the GOP primary.
Trump’s Fox interviews will provide him with opportunities to get his message out without facing critical questions. Hannity is effectively a Trump political operative and was so influential during his administration that White House staffers reportedly described him as the shadow chief of staff. And Levin was an architect of Trump’s election subversion plan and among the staunchest supporters of his effort to remain in office after losing.
Attention from Fox, the most trusted outlet on the right, can be critical in Republican primaries. No one knows that better than Trump; in 2016, his romp to the nomination was helped by more than 49 hours of interview airtime on the network (including more than 17 hours on Hannity), more than twice as much as any other candidate.
Soros’s Media Matters demands censoring leading GOP presidential candidate https://t.co/jtODNCQorf— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 23, 2023
Come on! It’s not Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell ok?
Trump needs to select Jim Jordan for VP. There will be no talk of impeachment.
From 2016-2020, Donald Trump was the best “earner” CNN ever had. Ratings were through the roof, as the Trump haters tuned in their daily doses.
Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
‘Cause we need a little, controversy
‘Cause it feels so empty, without me
-Eminem
Jordan as VP-what a waste. Have him take on Sherrod Brown. That seat’s more valuable.
Fox needs Trump for ratings. The Donald said to Fox Snooze >>>>>
Don’t, don’t you want me?
You know I can’t believe it when I hear that you won’t see me
Don’t, don’t you want me?
You know I don’t believe you when you say that you don’t need me
It’s much too late to find
You think you’ve changed your mind
You’d better change it back, or we will both be sorry
Don’t you want me, baby?
Don’t you want me, oh?
Don’t you want me, baby?
Don’t you want me, oh?
The R establishment news supports the R establishment candidate.
Of course.
I watch fox very rarely because the whole thing is an orchestrated show, with models, comedians, skirts up to the crotch...Then Hannity...He has guests on his shows and ends up interviewing himself. Very odd.
Trump uses fox to put him out there on the airwaves. So that works.
I was surprised by Hannity’s announcement last night. I agree that Trump and Fox need each other. It still rankles me that Fox’s commentators wrote him off early on Election Night.
I watch Tucker and Gutfeld, mostly.
A Trump Hannity interview is 90% of the time a bad interview. He’d be better going into a more hostile environment. That’s when he’s at his best. Hannity just puts words in his mouth and Trump will say...its so horrible isn’t it.
In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims
Did Mr. Hannity believe any of this?
“I did not believe it for one second.”
That was the answer Mr. Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to information disclosed in a court hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was called to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial, which the judge has scheduled to begin in April.
What? Trump is going back on FOX?
He has been trashing FOX for forever, now he’s wanting to act like none of that happened?
Guess so. Will be interesting if his supporters follow along, or not, as they aren’t as obedient as they once were.
“...his personal propaganda organ...”
LOL!. Media Matters knows all about “organs”, especially the homosexual David Brock. He is an expert on playing propaganda organs.
Hannity is Globalist scum. Trump needs to stay away from him.
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It’s Rehab Mike Pence night, again tonight on FOX.
Wanna bet they don’t Ask Pence about his Mansion - or why he slammed Trump for Classified Docs, then suddenly remembered he had some when Joe was caught.
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The bad relationships continue.
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