Donald Trump is running into a problem with Fox News.
It’s one he had no idea existed.
And Kellyanne Conway left Trump speechless with this dirty secret about Fox News.
Puck News’ Tara Palmeri reported that Donald Trump is welcoming former campaign manager and White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway back onto his team.
But unlike in 2016 when Conway managed Trump’s campaign down the stretch, Conway will play a different role as Palmeri revealed Conway will largely serve as a high-level surrogate for Trump on Fox News.
“Conway still has Trump’s ear and serves as a rare high-level surrogate on Fox News,” Palmeri wrote in her “The Best & The Brightest” newsletter.
Palmeri revealed that cable news networks won’t put Trump surrogates on the air out of revenge for Trump contesting the results of the 2020 election.
“The truth is that the Trump campaign could use more surrogates, many of whom were blacklisted from the news networks after the 2020 campaign,” Palmeri’s report continued.
No Trump supporter is surprised to learn that MSNBC or CNN won’t put Trump surrogates on the air as those two networks function as Democrat Party rapid-response operations.
“But in general, there’s an aversion by the mainstream players to platforming election deniers—an issue that played out most memorably, last week, with NBC’s whirlwind hiring and firing of McDaniel,” Palmeri added.
“CNN’s roster of Republican contributors mostly hail from the pre-Trump days. MSNBC talent rely on reporter interactions with Trump supporters to tap into the id of the 74 million people who voted for him four years ago,” Palmeri wrote.
But Fox News joined in the blacklist by refusing to put any Trump supporters on the air as network executives are skittish following the $787 million defamation suit settlement Fox paid the voting machine company after reporting on Trump and his lawyers’ claims about the last election.
“Even Fox is hesitant to allow the real MAGA dingbats in front of the camera after settling the Dominion lawsuit (and with Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation claim still moving toward a trial),” Palmeri stated.
Democrats weaponized defamation law as a way to chill free speech.
It succeeded as liberals sued Fox News, Rudy Giuliani and Kari Lake for questioning elections.
Now news networks won’t put Trump supporters on the air at all.
This isn’t the first Fox News blacklist.
From September 2022 to April 2023, Fox News banned Donald Trump from appearing on the air as founder Rupert Murdoch hoped disappearing Trump would push GOP voters to support Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP primary.
“Donald Trump, who once dominated the Fox News broadcasts, is now running into a brick wall with what four members of his circle say is a ‘soft ban’ from the top of the conservative news channel, as it rolls out the red carpet to even the low-profile rival candidates,” Semafor reported in March 2023.
“Everyone knows that there’s this ‘soft ban’ or ‘silent ban,’” a Trumpworld source said to Semafor. “It’s certainly — however you want to say, quiet ban, soft ban, whatever it is — indicative of how the Murdochs feel about Trump in this particular moment.”
Fox News tried to meddle in the GOP primary by refusing to allow Donald Trump on the air.
As Trump gears up for the general election it looks like Fox News is trying to disadvantage Trump again by not putting his campaign surrogates on the air.
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