A Daily Beast Exclusive
The president’s favorite cable-news show shared its interview scripts and its oh-so-hard-hitting questions in advance with an embattled Trump official.
By Maxwell Tani
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was clearly taken aback last year when occasional Fox & Friends fill-in host Ed Henry grilled him about a number of ethical scandals facing his administration.
And Pruitt had a good reason to be surprised. In past interviews with President Trump’s favorite cable-news show, the then-EPA chief’s team chose the topics for interviews, and knew the questions in advance.
In
one instance, according to emails revealed in a Freedom of Information
Act request submitted by the Sierra Club and reviewed by The Daily
Beast, Pruitt’s team even approved part of the show’s script.
Fox & Friends has
long been a friendly venue for Trump and his allies, but the emails
demonstrate how the show has pushed standard cable-news practices to the
extreme in order to make interviews a comfortable, non-confrontational
experience for favored government officials.
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