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Report: Murdoch tells Trump he will not support his 3rd White House bid
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Former President Donald Trump announced his 2024 bid for the U.S. presidency on Tuesday.
- A new report says billionaire Rupert Murdoch “made it clear” to Trump that his media empire will not support his re-election.
- Trump enters the race burdened with several legal battles that have not yet been resolved.
Billionaire Rupert Murdoch has reportedly “made it clear” to former President Donald Trump that his media empire will not support his 3rd White House bid, according to a new report.
Though the Republican party regains control of the House, political analysts call the GOP’s performance in the midterm elections disappointing, particularly the poor showing by Trump-backed candidates.
Murdoch’s rightwing media empire, including right-leaning Fox News, his flagship paper the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, seems to be breaking away from Trump’s perceived dwindling political power.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal called Trump a loser and a flop who is responsible for dragging the GOP into “one political fiasco after another”. The New York Post featured a cover calling the former president “Trumpty Dumpty.”
While some on Fox have pushed for the Republican Party to move on from Trump, its top hosts have defended him from criticism over the midterms.
Trump announced he will run for president again in 2024 in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night. He has accused Murdoch of going “all in” to back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom he has called an “average Republican governor” and has nicknamed “Ron DeSanctimonious”.
Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son and heir apparent, Lachlan Murdoch, has reportedly told DeSantis that the empire would support him if he ran in the 2024 presidential election.
“Lachlan has been keen on Ron for some time,” said the i’s source. “He’s viewed within the organization as a sanitized version of Donald.”
Though DeSantis, 44, has been dubbed “DeFuture” by the New York Post and “the new Republican party leader” in a Fox News column, he has not declared his intentions to be the GOP’s 2024 presidential candidate.
Many who watched Trump’s announcement on Tuesday criticized his “low energy” and “sleepy” speech compared to his enthusiastic 2015 announcement from New York.
Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House press aide, expressed a view on TwitterTuesday night:
Jared Holt, a senior research manager at Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), compared Trump to “Sleepy Joe” Biden in his tweet.
Trump launched an official campaign against the backdrop of several personal and business legal battles that have not yet been resolved.
Source: The Guardian
paulkersey50ca
November 17, 2022 at 11:46 am
expect 2 full years of this happy horse dook. the attack is on. the fear of Trump is palpable. no better sign that he is hovering over the target. this is our man unless we want to go back into the dark ages of establishment politics. MAGA!! FJB and the DNC!!!
paulkersey50ca
November 17, 2022 at 11:48 am
go back to Australia and be a good commie there Murdock.
stilmistmcl
November 19, 2022 at 12:09 pm
That threat can certainly work both ways. Not watching Fox or reading the NY Post or WSJ would have an impact if enough viewers are resolute in staying away. There are so many other options to these that it becomes a matter of resolve. Compromise is a detracting behavior. There’s much more at stake here than kowtowing to Rupert Mudoch. He owns none of us.