It did not take long for White House aides, cabinet secretaries, and members of Congress to get wise to this unique symbiosis between president and network—and to begin lobbying Trump via Fox. During an early congressional debate on repealing Barack Obama’s health care program, Trump saw Representative Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio and one of the leading conservative flame-throwers in the House, and mentioned that he had watched the congressman on Fox that morning. Jordan later summoned aides and told them to start booking him on shows if he had a message for the president. “Every time we
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