By <a class="c-link lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/nikki-mccann-ramirez/" > Nikki McCann Ramirez</a> <br> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/fox-news/" id="auto-tag_fox-news" data-tag="fox-news" >Fox News</a> has long entrenched itself as a pro-<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/" id="auto-tag_donald-trump" data-tag="donald-trump" >Donald Trump</a> propaganda network dedicated to broadcasting, defending, and justifying the words and actions of the president-elect and his cronies. While Trump and Fox News regularly critique the “mainstream media” as corrupt, biased ideologues, the network itself is no stranger to bending the rules of ethics to suit their own political project. <br> According to the upcoming book <em>Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power</em> by <em>Politico</em>’s Alex Isenstadt, a Fox News insider fed Trump’s team questions prepared by hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum ahead of an Iowa town hall with the network in January of last year. <br> “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. The excerpt was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/media/trump-fox-news-town-hall-questions-maria-bartiromo?cid=ios_app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >provided exclusively to CNN</a>. <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1"> <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300"> <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;" class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text" data-priority="10" > <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0" class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad=""> <script type="application/javascript">
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