Having taken his shot at Tucker, foreign media oligarch Rupert Murdoch ramps up dirty tricks against Trump…
May 18, 2023 (5d ago)
Vanity Fair reported last month that Rupert Murdoch hosted Ron DeSantis and his wife at his California ranch in 2020 and told him that “Fox News would support him for president in 2024.”
It is important not to forget that Murdoch’s vast media empire extends far beyond Fox News. He exerts immense editorial control over the two other American outlets he owns — the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal. Both outlets pump out nonstop favorable coverage of Ron DeSantis and take every opportunity they can to swipe at Donald Trump.
To get an extent of how egregious Murdoch’s Trump blacklist really is, note that The Post covered Donald Trump’s campaign announcement by putting it on page 26 with the headline: “Florida Man Makes Announcement.”
Even with President Trump dominating the field as the overwhelming Republican frontrunner, Murdoch hasn’t called it quits with his tricks. On Wednesday, the New York Post ran this headline: “Biden up 7 points over Donald Trump in 2024 popular vote, poll shows”.
What the Post doesn’t mention until 13 paragraphs in is that the poll was conducted by WPA Intelligence, the official polling firm of Ron DeSantis’ Super PAC “Never Back Down.” The New York Post claims that the polling was somehow independent and not done at the behest of DeSantis’ Super PAC, despite WPA Intelligence’s CEO serving as the chief pollster for Never Back Down.
Furthermore, the story curiously doesn’t include any information on how this poll shows how Ron does head-to-head against Biden. To recap: the pollster for Ron DeSantis’ political action committee gave the New York Post polling numbers that show DeSantis’ opponent is losing without any context about how that same poll shows how DeSantis is doing.
New York Post ran a poll from the same DeSantis-linked firm suggesting that Trump’s electoral changes were compromised because a majority of Americans want to see him criminally charged:
A majority of Americans believe that former President Donald Trump should face charges in two pending criminal investigations against him, a new poll exclusively shared with The Post on Wednesday shows.
The WPA Intelligence survey also found that if Trump is charged, his chances against President Biden in the general election would take a severe hit.
The poll of 1,571 registered voters found that 59% said they believe Trump should be criminally charged in Georgia where Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating the 76-year-old former president and his allies over allegations he engaged in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
This is just par for the course for Murdoch’s New York tabloid. Subtlety isn’t really Rupert Murdoch’s thing. Limey gun-grabber Piers Morgan writes almost weekly op-eds for the Post telling Americans to pick Ron DeSantis.
Rupert Murdoch, who is in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants, infamously took credit for the Tory Party’s victory in the UK’s 1992 election with the headline, “It’s The Sun Wot Won It.”
Rupert, if alive, will be 93 years old for the November 2024 election. It will more than likely be the last presidential election he witnesses. He clearly wants to cap off his career with one last bit of election interference, and he’s willing to burn down the credibility and popularity of his own media assets in the process.
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