BOOK: Fox Gave Trump Questions Before Town Hall

CNN reports:

President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in what would be a serious breach of journalism ethics. The report, which Fox said it plans to investigate, comes from the forthcoming book “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power” by Alex Isenstadt, a national political reporter at Politico.

Unlike other Fox hosts, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum were known to engage in tougher questioning of the former president. And Trump’s aides warned they’d press him on disavowing political violence and whether he planned to engage in political retribution if he were to win reelection, Isenstadt reports

“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox. Holy s–t, the team thought. They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot. This was like a student getting a peek at the test before the exam started,” Isenstadt writes.

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