President-elect Donald Trump 's team was fed questions by a Fox News insider before an Iowa town hall in January 2024, a forthcoming book by Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt has alleged. Why It Matters Networks hosting campaign events like debates and town halls will usually deliberately try to limit access to their prepared questions and prevent leaks. Giving a presidential candidate a sneak peek at questions ahead of such an event would represent a breach of journalism ethics.
What To Know Isenstadt claimed in his new book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power that roughly 30 minutes before the Iowa town hosted by Fox News' Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, "a senior Trump aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox ...
They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording," according to excerpts obtained by CNN . The reporting was based on "multiple people with direct knowledge" of the event, Isenstadt told CNN. What Were Fox News' Questions About? The Fox News hosts "planned to ask Trump if he would divest from his businesses if he won, and whether the party was taking a risk nominating him given his indictments," Isenstadt wrote in his book.
They also were going to push the then-Republican presidential candidate to "disavow political violence" and ask him if a second Trump administration "would be focused on retribution," according to the book. Trump Was Angry, According To .
