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

      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?).