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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:46 AM Nov 2018

Fox News Personalities Embrace Trump at His Final Rally Before the Election

The show onstage might well have been called Fox & Friend. As President Trump wrapped up the midterm election cycle with a late-night rally in southwest Missouri on Monday, he was joined by a trio of conservative media rock stars.

Introducing the president as he stumped for Republican candidates was Rush Limbaugh, the radio host who was born and raised in Cape Girardeau. Then after Mr. Trump took the microphone, he invited two Fox News personalities, Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, to join him on stage, where each also delivered a short speech backing the president.

The line between the Trump White House and Fox has always been a little blurry, but in that moment at least, the fusion of president and network seemed complete.

The pipeline also works the other way. The president recruited his current national security adviser, John R. Bolton, from Fox and he is considering naming another former Fox personality, Heather Nauert, as his new ambassador to the United Nations as early as this week. His son Donald Trump Jr. is dating Kimberly Guilfoyle, who left her position as a Fox host last summer to “dedicate myself full time” to supporting the president’s political activities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/us/politics/trump-fox-news-hannity.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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