According to a new bombshell report from the New Yorker, an editor at Fox News killed a report prior to the 2016 presidential election revealing that Donald Trump engaged in an affair with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels years ago.

According to the magazine, former FoxNews.com reporter Diana Falzone “had obtained proof” of the affair and confirmed it with several key sources, including Daniels and her ex-husband.

Falzone had also reportedly obtained emails between Daniels’s attorney and Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen that showed that Cohen had proposed to pay cash to Daniels in exchange for a nondisclosure agreement.

But the report was never published, according to The New Yorker, with former Fox News executive Ken LaCorte ultimately telling Falzone to “let it go.”

“Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert Murdoch wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go,” LaCorte reportedly said.

According to the magazine, LaCorte denied making that comment to Falzone, but one of Falzone’s colleagues confirmed having heard the account.

Falzone later sued Fox and reached a settlement that includes a nondisclosure agreement, which prevents her from speaking about the Daniels story, The New Yorker added.

The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2018 — one year after Trump became president — that Cohen had arranged a $130,000 payment to Daniels just weeks before the 2016 presidential election in an effort to keep her quiet about the alleged affair with Trump.

More broadly, the New Yorker story paints a picture of a symbiotic relationship between Fox News and Trump and of a president who is often more influenced by what television pundits say than by the advice of his staff.

Trump reportedly once called Fox News to get right-wing commentator Ann Coulter back on the network.

In March 2018, he almost refused to sign an appropriations bill because of what he saw on Fox, but advisers were able to talk him out of it. Late last year, they had no such luck — Trump’s refusal to sign a spending bill over his insistence on $5 billion for a border wall caused a 35-day partial government shutdown. He was going to sign the bill but was convinced by Fox News commentators not to.

Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive who is now Trump’s communications chief, has received millions of dollars from Fox since joining the administration as part of his severance package.