Ted Cruz: 'Fox News went all in for Trump' in 2016 because Trump presidency was Roger Ailes' dying wish

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'That was the decision,' Cruz said. 'I didn't know Roger well, but I think it clearly is what he wanted to do.'

Cruz, who Trump famously nicknamed"Lyin' Ted," refused to endorse Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention after the Texas senator dropped out of the heated primary.

Following Ailes' resignation, Trump, the then-Republican presidential nominee, defended the former CEO and chairman of Fox News."Roger is — I mean, what he's done on television, in the history of television, he's gotta be placed in the top three or four or five," Trump said during an interview with NBC's"Some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he's helped them," he said.

"It's hard to really overestimate the influence [Ailes] had on the media and the political landscape," Betsy West, a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and formerly the senior vice-president at CBS News, said, shortly after Ailes' death in 2017, according to

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