Trump and Epstein.
For mainstream opinion to crash against O’Reilly and Ailes, the public needed to see hard evidence of lawsuits from—and settlements to—more than one of their alleged victims.
Once that happened, in O’Reilly’s case, people pressed advertisers to abandon his show, and more than 50 of the most prominent companies did.
There was no big advertiser boycott against Ailes, probably because few companies would be able to justify pulling ads from an entire very popular network. Instead, Ailes was done in by the status of the women he victimized.
Carlson was joined by Megyn Kelly and other big-name hosts in her accusations against Ailes; 21stCentury Fox evidently came to realize that the outrage over the allegations wasn’t going to die down anytime soon and would cost them more money than Ailes was worth.
The fact that recognizable personalities were putting their names on the line against Ailes probably convinced some people prone to distrust women that these allegations were true.
Do not ever forget this.
Need to blank out the F word and post on billboards nationwide. Make those Republicans proud!
Sexual predator Trump!