Is Murdoch tiring of Trump? Mogul’s print titles dump the ex-president – By Edward Helmore (The Guardian) / July 25, 2022
Tabloid with long relationship with former president blasts him over Capitol attack, saying he is unworthy to be elected again
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.
