Nothing to see here, just Fox News serving as a wing of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. Read the latest from besslevin:
Campaigns do opposition research on their own candidates to get a sense of what attacks are coming and to prepare for them. Now imagine if they knew with certainty what attacks were coming because the friendly chairman of a right-wing media organization was tipping you off.
Given the way Fox treated Trump while he was in office—like he was the network’s lord and savior, and like its pundits had pledged a blood oath to him in the basement of its Sixth Avenue offices—the company’s owner having shared confidential information with Kushner probably seems neither shocking nor even that bad on the scale of all the bad things the network has done. As a reminder, though, the organization in question purports to be in the “news” business.
In both the most recent and earlier filings from Dominion, Murdoch is quoted as advocating explicitly for his charges to help boost Republicans. “[W]e should concentrate on Georgia, helping any way we can,” Murdoch wrote to his team in the days before the runoff Senate races in that state—meaning, obviously, that they should help the Republicans win.
Murdoch obviously isn’t going to suspend himself, but unfortunately for Trump, he’s probably also unlikely to provide the same kind of support in 2024.* As we learned back in 2021, it was ole Rupert who gave the greenlight to call Arizona for Biden, reportedly telling his son, of Trump: “.” While Fox has denied this, the most recently released Dominion filing suggests Team Trump indeed received a chilly reception from the Aussie at the top.
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