My analysis is that he know's he's already lost but he has to keep all the hooting fans excited.

Or does he genuinely think 6 million people voted illegally to steal the election?

  • CrowTankieRobot [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    His next move will probably be to try to grift ONAN...err...OANN. I recall that his kids bought in with a 25% stake earlier this year. Newsmax is another possibility. Both are extremely small-time networks (something like 1% of Fox News Channel's valuation), and they have no real viewership. But I can just see Trump's sales pitch now...he's the only one who can make OANN successful, etc.

      • CrowTankieRobot [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I looked up the deal the Trump kids were doing with OANN, and it seems Vanity Fair got a super-duper-background-scoop kind of story that everyone is denying...except for the $250 million figure, which is not denied. It sounds like the owner (Herring) isn't happy about relinquishing all of his ownership. Last I checked, relinquishing ownership proportional to $$$ invested is kinda how capitalism works. Anyway, they're "still in talks".

        The OANN angle the Trump crime family is running is quite amazing. I never thought anyone could divert the MAGA morons away from Fox, and Trump does it with just a few Tweets. And like you said, Fox has far more resources (I can't remember the viewership of OANN, but it's tiny), but it does seem possible that Goliath may yet fall to OANN/Newsmax/etc.

          • CrowTankieRobot [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yes...here's one about the owner denying the sale, POd about losing his private holdings, but no one is actually denying the $$$:

            https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-is-really-aiming-to-take-down-fox

            There have been several articles, including a few in other papers referring to other Vanity Fair articles. Unfortunately, VF is paywalled, so you won't be able to read a lot unless you're a subscriber. (I think you get 2 articles/month otherwise). Some of the Dem/lib sites like DailyKos and Democratic Underground have covered this in the past. It looks like the Trumps were trying to use a front group (Hicks Equity) to hide their name, and it got exposed...who knows? (Another interesting question: is this the same Hicks family as Hope Hicks?).