Fox News, Murdoch-Owned Papers Urge Trump to ‘Leave Office With Dignity’ – BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW (Newsweek) / Nov 7 2020
Fox News hosts and editorial boards at two of Rupert Murdoch’s largest newspapers are demanding President Donald Trump either present evidence or immediately cease allegations of “voter fraud,” urging him to “leave office with dignity” should he be unable to disprove his defeat.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Friday night prepared Trump supporter viewers to “accept an unfavorable outcome” of the president losing, hours before her network called the presidential election in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden. On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post editorial boards, both owned by Murdoch’s News Corp., published op-eds calling on Trump to immediately drop the baseless “stolen election” narrative he continues to tweet four days after Election Day. Just one month after the Post labeled Trump “an invincible hero,” the paper’s editors are now urging him to “wish Biden well” and concede instead of promoting “baseless conspiracies.”
The WSJ board said Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani‘s generic “Philadelphia is historically corrupt” claims won’t stand up in court and the president should “concede gracefully” after all votes are counted. Only a handful of sitting Republicans have referred to Biden as “President-Elect,” something Fox News hosts were reportedly instructed to avoid even as their own network called the election for Biden Saturday.
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