Janice Min: Every Word About Bannon-Ailes Dinner Party in Wolff’s Book ‘Absolutely Accurate’

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MIN: "Everything was surprising. The details in the book are accurate. It was — the whole dinner from start to finish was about five hours. Roger Ailes and his wife Elizabeth arrived first. Remember, this is shortly — this is on heels of Ailes being ousted from Fox News. He hasn't spoken to any media, he was not allowed to speak to any media. The two of them were thick as thieves on everything, Elizabeth and Roger. She was his staunch defender, angrier about the way he was treated than he was. Really, if you were to just — by their accounts, they simply were baffled, could not believe any of these allegations coming forward, believed people were personally motivated to get ahead in their careers, that Roger was a great champion of women. They believed it so much that you could see how they could convince others that it wasn’t true. He also was very candid about his feelings about Rupert Murdoch. And I thought tellingly at dinner, Roger sat to my right and we were talking about Donald Trump, and he said, Roger said, 'You know, I’m a lifelong Republican, but these guys kind of scare me.'"