Trump tell-all author returns with tale of Fox News strife which also includes prediction Ron DeSantis will be Republican nominee
: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch. Now, in the introduction to The Fall, he says he may be “the journalist not in his employ who knows [Murdoch] best”.
His new volume, Wolff writes, is based on “conversations specifically for this book, and other conversations that have taken place over many years, and on scenes and events that I have personally witnessed or that I have recreated with the help of participants in them”.
Murdoch, Wolff writes, “seemed to have just gotten off the phone” and to be continuing a conversation or train of thought. Someone present called Trump’s claims about Dominion-made voting machines being used for electoral fraud “crazy”.Hall reportedly retorted: “You helped make him president.”Most of Wolff’s book is concerned with machinations and maneuvering at Fox News between hosts, executives and Murdoch family members, as the end of the patriarch’s reign draws near.
Murdoch’s distaste for and estrangement from Trump, the far-right president he helped instal, has been widely reported,But as Trump continues to dominate a 2024 Republican primary widely seen as his best chance of avoiding prison time arising from 91 criminal charges under four separate indictments, Wolff’s new reporting may cause further embarrassment for Murdoch and Fox News.
Numerous pungent passages in The Fall are based on conversations with Roger Ailes, the Fox News chief who
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