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Donald Trump’s real goal for 2016: Trying to beat Fox News

September 6, 2016 / Comments Off on Donald Trump’s real goal for 2016: Trying to beat Fox News
Donald Trump speaks at a December 2015 campaign stop at Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo Credit: Matt A.J./Flickr

Donald Trump speaks at a December 2015 campaign stop at Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo Credit: Matt A.J./Flickr

Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State professor of Comparative Literature and International Affairs, has penned a piece on Salon.com. Here is an excerpt of the piece:

Sophia A. McClennen

Sophia A. McClennen

“The conspiracy theory of the week is the idea that Donald Trump didn’t run to become president; he ran to become the head of the next conservative media empire. As the New Yorker reports, the Trump campaign has been joined in the last weeks by both Steve Bannon of Breitbart and Roger Ailes, the disgraced head of Fox News, fueling speculations that Trump’s real goal is to build a new conservative news media network.

“The notion makes sense: How else to explain why Trump refuses to broaden his base of support and continues to stoke his core of racist, right-wing extremist fans? How else to explain why Trump has refused to reach out to the Republican establishment and build a larger political network? And how else to explain the dynamic duo of conservative media villains — Bannon and Ailes — playing a role in Trump’s campaign?

“If the thought of a Trump presidency worries you, the thought of a Trump news network should scare the hell out of you.”

Read more at Salon.com.

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