Murdoch papers turning on Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...urnal-fox-news
Rupert Murdoch, hitherto one of Donald Trump’s most loyal media messengers, appears to have turned on the former president.
US media circles were rocked this weekend after the New York Post issued an excoriating editorial indictment of Trump’s failure to stop the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
The editorial, in a tabloid owned by Murdoch since 1976, began: “As his followers stormed the Capitol, calling for his vice-president to be hanged, President Donald Trump sat in his private dining room, watching TV, doing nothing. For three hours, seven minutes.”
Trump’s only focus, the Post said, was to block the peaceful transfer of power.
“As a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”
The Wall Street Journal, another Murdoch paper, issued a similar critique in which it said evidence before the House January 6 committee was a reminder that “Trump betrayed his supporters”.
Originally Posted by jon1959
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