Ailes could continue advising Trump beyond the September 26 debate at Hofstra University, according to The New York Times, which cited “three people briefed on the move, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter”.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman ousted last month after sexual harassment allegations, is not advising Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before the presidential debates in the fall, the campaign said on Tuesday.
It was not clear when Mr. Ailes began helping the campaign.
There had been speculation that Ailes could take some sort of advisory role with Trump’s campaign after he stepped down from his post, and Trump himself praised Ailes and talked about the rumors in an appearance on “Meet the Press” the Sunday after he accepted the Republican nomination.
Though the Times’ sources did not reveal how long Ailes has been assisting the Trump campaign, two of the three said his role “could extend beyond the debates”.
“This is not accurate”, she said of the Times story. He at times received apparently favorable coverage but had a public spat with Fox anchor Megyn Kelly. After reading about the stuff he did at Fox News for 20 full years, he ought to be shunned from polite society for the rest of his miserable life.
Trump has, over the last several weeks, feuded with the Muslim family of a USA soldier killed in Iraq, suggested guns rights owners prevent Clinton from nominating Supreme Court justices, called President Obama the founder of ISIS and made many other incendiary remarks that have apparently turned off many voters. “And even recently. And when they write books that are fairly recently released, and they say wonderful things about him”.
Before launching Fox News in 1996, Ailes was a political adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
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Clinton’s campaign is preparing to deal with attacks from Trump about Bill Clinton’s history with Monica Lewinsky and other women, Politico reported on Tuesday.
