Fox News Explains Why It Rejected ‘The Apprentice’ Ad During Harris Interview

Fox News rejected an ad for the controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice that its distributor tried to purchase to run during the network’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris set to air Wednesday evening, a source close to the film’s production team told The Daily Beast.

A source at Fox News, however, said that’s wildly misleading. They said, because of the high profile nature of the interview with Harris, the network chose to enact a policy to show no campaign, political, or political action committee ads, or ads that depict likenesses of any candidates, during the broadcast.

That final criteria, they noted, is what ruled out the ad for The Apprentice, which stars Sebastian Stan as Trump.

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