In Trump’s Battle With Murdoch, Fox News Is a Complication
It was late afternoon on Monday when news broke that the White House was icing The Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters who will travel with President Trump to Scotland this month. His press secretary made it clear that the move was retaliation for an article in The Journal, part of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media business, about Mr. Trump’s past relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Just an hour or so later, though, it was Trump-bolstering business as usual in another part of the Murdoch empire. Hosts of “The Five,” the most popular program on Fox News, extolled the “golden age” that was Mr. Trump’s second term. “47’s got plenty of wins on his plate to boast about,” one host, Sandra Smith, said. “And yet the Dems still won’t give Trump credit.” Another host, Greg Gutfeld, said Democrats were secretly “relieved that the golden age is here.”
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