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That could explain why Ailes and Fox haven't come out harder against Trump, even as he continues to publicly attack star anchor Megyn Kelly

If Ailes ever truly went to war against Trump, Trump would have the arsenal to launch a retaliatory strike,' Sherman writes

Fox ended up paying Lewis a million to keep quiet, but Trump reportedly learned everything he planned to leak

Trump says Ailes asked him to mediate the situation, since he once worked with Burstein

During severance negotiations, Lewis hired powerhouse litigator Judd Burstein and said he had 'bombs' that could bring down Fox

biography of Roger Ailes which led the Fox News CEO to fire his PR adviser Brian Lewis

Gabriel Sherman details how Donald Trump came to have insider information on Fox News

In a new cover story in New York magazine,

A new report in New York magazine is shedding light on Donald Trump's baffling drama with Fox News.

Reporter Gabriel Sherman purports that Trump has insider information on the news network that has kept CEO and GOP power-broker Roger Ailes from declaring outright war against the mogul.

In 2014, Sherman wrote a biography on Ailes titled The Loudest Voice in the Room, a book so damaging it led Ailes to fire his PR adviser Brian Lewis, certain Lewis had been an anonymous source for the book.

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What does he know? A new report in New York magazine purports that Donald Trump (left) may have insider information on Fox News which he is holding against the network's CEO Roger Ailes (right)

When he was fired, Lewis went on a rampage, threatening to drop 'bombs' that would destroy both Ailes and Fox News.

It was when Lewis hired powerhouse litigator Judd Burstein to represent him in severance negotiations with Fox News that Trump says he got involved, since he previously worked with Burstein.

'When Roger was having problems, he didn’t call 97 people, he called me,' Trump told the magazine. 'Roger [Ailes] had lawyers, very expensive lawyers, and they couldn’t do anything. I solved the problem.'

Dirt: When Ailes fired his PR adviser over the 2014 biography The Loudest Voice in the Room (left), Trump helped mediate and apparently learned everything Brian Lewis (right) was planning to expose about Fox News

So Trump ran the meetings out of his offices in Trump Tower, and in the end Fox paid millions to keep Lewis quiet.

But all of the dirt on Fox News that Lewis planned to expose, Trump learned, Sherman reports.

'Trump, I’m told, learned everything Lewis had planned to leak. If Ailes ever truly went to war against Trump, Trump would have the arsenal to launch a retaliatory strike,' Sherman writes.

That might explain why Fox News was strangely restrained when Trump first attacked Megyn Kelly after the first GOP debates in August.

After the debates, Trump felt he had been bullied by Kelly, who confronted him with his history of making derogatory statements about women.

Ailes and Fox News were criticized in the aftermath of the debate, for the slow response in issuing statements of support for Kelly.

Quiet: If Trump does indeed have embarrassing information on Fox News, it could explain why the network has been measured in their defense of Megyn Kelly, who Trump continues to attack

When Trump attacked Kelly yet again last month, tweeting that his supporters should boycott her show, Fox released another statement calling Trump out for his 'extreme, sick obsession' with the anchor.

But some critics called the statement too little too late.

'This is really late coming by Fox,' Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik said in an appearance on CNN. ' Back in August when he went after her just as hard and he attacked her on Twitter, I defended her more than Fox did. I went on Bill O'Reilly's show and said why don't you defend her the way you defended Juan Williams after NPR fired him?'

Kelly herself admitted that she was disappointed in O'Reilly particularly for not defending her more.

'I do wish that O'Reilly had defended me more in his interview with Trump. I would have defended him more,' Kelly says, in the April cover story of More magazine.