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Trump’s Fox News fury takes embarassing turn as leaks expose GOP panic
What happened
AlterNet, citing Axios, reports that President Donald Trump publicly attacked Fox News after White House officials and senior Republican operatives privately complained about the network’s coverage of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Republicans reportedly fear that Fox appearances are helping El-Sayed reach center-right voters and weakening efforts to portray him as politically extreme.
Trump accused Fox of favoring Democrats and giving El-Sayed a “softball interview.” The network’s leadership defended interviewing candidates its…
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