Roger Ailes breaks away from ‘waste of time’ Trump just before the final
debate
David Ferguson 19 OCT 2016 AT 14:28 ET
Ousted Fox News head Roger Ailes and Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump have fallen out and are no longer speaking, sources say.
Emily Jane Fox of Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday that New York
magazine’s Gabriel Sherman and Vanity Fair editor Sarah Ellison have both
been informed that the longtime friends Trump and Ailes are no longer on
good terms, but the reasons for the parting of ways vary according to
who you ask.
“Ailes’s camp said Ailes learned that Trump couldn’t focus — surprise,
surprise — and that advising him was a waste of time,” Sherman said
Tuesday morning at
Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit. “These debate prep sessions
weren’t going anywhere.”
Ellison said that the Trump camp’s position is that Ailes was useless
during debate prep.
“Even for the second debate, Ailes kept going off on tangents and
talking about his war stories while he was supposed to be prepping
Trump,” she said.
The souring of the two men’s formerly collegial relationship could have
implications for Trump’s purported ambition to start his own TV network,
Trump TV.
When Ailes began advising the campaign — within weeks of his separation
from Fox News — many media watchers speculated that Ailes was part of
Trump’s TV team, along with campaign CEO and Breitbart.com executive
Steve Bannon.
The rupture in the men’s years-long friendship comes just as Trump is
weathering the storm of an ever-expanding sexual harassment scandal. The
accusations
against Trump are remarkably similar to those which ended Ailes’ reign
atop Fox News. Both men are accused by multiple women of making unwanted
sexual
advances, inappropriate touching and kissing, fondling and coercion.
Ailes was personally sued in July by former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson,
who secretly taped Ailes in their private meetings. Carlson alleged that
Ailes made
multiple suggestions that they should enter into a sexual relationship,
that frequently made off-color comments about her body and pressured her
and the
other women at Fox to dress more provocatively on the air.
Trump has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women
after leaked audio revealed him boasting to former Access Hollywood host
Billy Bush
that his fame allows him to kiss women with impunity and “grab them by
the pussy” without repercussions.
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