Pretty apt summary of the latest Ailes revelations:
Sherman's Ailes/Fox/Trump revelations read like tales from the court of Caligula or the Borgias. https://t.co/23hR0ROjIO
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 2, 2016
Possible poisoning, check.
Kelly had even begun to speculate, according to one Fox source, that Trump might have been responsible for her getting violently ill before the debate last summer. Could he have paid someone to slip something into her coffee that morning in Cleveland.
Members of the royal court acting as pimps, check.
Ailes’s longtime executive assistant Judy Laterza — who became one of his top lieutenants, earning more than $2 million a year, according to a Fox executive — seemed to function as a recruiter of sorts. According to Carlson’s attorney, in 2002, Laterza remarked to a college intern she saw on the elevator about how pretty she was and invited her to meet Ailes. After that meeting, Ailes arranged for the young woman to transfer to his staff. Her first assignment was to go down to the newsstand and fetch him the latest issue of Maxim. When she returned with the magazine, Ailes asked her to stay with him in his office. He flipped through the pages. The woman told the Washington Post that Ailes said, “You look like the women in here. You have great legs. If you sleep with me, you could be a model or a newscaster.”
Roger Ailes has been the most powerful man in American politics over the past 20 years. It’s possible — though unlikely — that he will get Trump elected as leader of the free world.
We’ve come a long way over the past 1500 years, haven’t we?
They wrote a book about it, they said it was like ancient RomePost + Comments (47)