Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump: Inside their tangled relationship

President Trump once called Rupert Murdoch “Very good friend.”

However, the 94 -year -old media baron, rising with the political rise of Trump’s political rise, turned into an unexpected enemy.

Trump one Wall Street Journal Report Allegedly, he sent a letter to Jeffrey Epstein, a sex criminal for his 50th birthday in 2003. Journal Publisher Dow Jones & Co. Murdoch and others.

The billionaire sitting on top of the world’s leading conservative media empire has become the focus of the president’s anger.

Trump is one of his favorite TV programs in Fox Fox & Friends, to the real social platform, “Rupert and ‘Friends’ in this case. The magazine, wrote, wrote a“ disgusting and dirty cloth ”and Murdoch’s“ ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ”

Trump’s lawyers applied more heat with a surprising offer to force Murdoch to appear immediately for a deposit last week. In a movement, Trump’s lawyers, Mogul’s age and health complications recently included fainting department, and over the last five years, Murdoch’u “face -to -face witness in experiment” to a torn Achilles tendon and atrial fibrillation, he said.

Murdoch refrained from commenting through a spokesman.

When Tussle bought Murdoch, born in Australia, and buys a fist painting with screaming headlines, the New York Post offers a rare look at the mixed relationship of two titles, whose relationships dating back half a century ago. Trump, partly as the King of New York Real Estate, made his reputation by buckets on the newspaper’s famous-open page.

And Fox News will be one of Trump’s biggest champions. The network drew positive attention to helping Trump’s reality TV star back into a political hero of a wonderful base again.

The cable network gave Trump a platform for the former president Obama for an unfounded “birth” conspiracies. And Trump’s political rise helped FOX News to be a rating and to be built in financial Juggernaut. This summer, FOX News is the US number 1 network, according to the measurement company Nielsen, and its broadcast leaders attract more viewers than NBC and CBS.

Moreover, a series of Fox News personality, including the former weekend host, now the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, has participated in Trump’s management.

Murdoch and Trump said, “Journalism at the University of Melbourne, Andrew Dodd, who has experienced this relationship since the 70s,” Murdoch and Trump said. “But at the same time there are these turns where they are against each other.”

Gabriel Kahn, a professor of USC Journalism and former Wall Street Journal correspondent, said tension is real.

Kahn said, Rupert Rupert, as well as the Trump world in the last 10 years pumps the world, Rupert sees himself as Kingmaker – not Lacquel, ”he said.

Trump’s social media publications have been disappointed with Murdoch and media properties for years.

Two men have different political philosophies: Murdoch is known to be a small government Reagan Republican in Maga Ven, according to a republican political operation that is not authorized to speak in the public opinion.

The insiders and observers point to a series of lighting, including the 2015 statement on Twitter a month after Trump descends with the gold escalator in Trump Tower to announce his first presidential proposal, and then firing a fire storm with anti -immigrant comments.

“When will Donald Trump stop embarrassing his friends aside from the whole country?” Murdoch asked ten years ago.

In turn, Murdoch tried to hire or increase the hopes of the opponent presidential. Florida’s Republican government Ron Desantis took a proud scope in Fox News during the reign of President Biden.

Until then, Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago after he lost his 2020 elections and wandered in the Fox News treacherous field. The Network was the first big output to call Arizona for Biden on the election night, and the supporters who saw the Riling Trump and the movement as betrayal made the allegations that the elections were stolen. Fox News immediately witnessed the audience migration.

Trump gave a platform to the deputies of Trump, who suggested that the machines should turn the votes for Biden, although the network, Murdoch and others know that such claims were wrong to regain their supporters.

Dominion voting systems and wise insults were sued. In the Dominion case, the discovery revealed that two days after January 6, 2021, Murdoch, the US Capitol, wanted to distance some distance from the rebellion and wrote an old manager: “We want to make Trump a person.”

In the accumulation of 2023, Murdoch accepted the wrong steps of spreading false theories. In spring, Fox agreed to pay Dominion, one of the biggest payments so far for the US slander case. The Smartmatic case is still on hold.

FOX News’s scope of election after 2020, “they declared a ‘big lie’.” Now, during the twilight years of his life Murdoch [may be] He thinks: ‘Well, this man is really not worth supporting anymore.’ “

Such a change will not be out of character. In the past, Murdoch introduced political leaders and governments to attract this support.

In the 1970s, initially supported Gough Whitlam, the prime minister of Australia. Murdoch allegedly managing editors with “Kill Whitlam,” Political (not violent) in a sense. Twenty years later, in England, Murdoch left the conservatives after a close ally of former leader Margaret Thatcher. FAMOUS HAPPY Tableid, Sun, Behind Tony Blair from Labour.

After supporting Tories for years Back to Sun Labour and Keir Starmer Last year, he says that “Time to change.”

“Murdoch has a long career to break what he has done,” Dodd said.

News Corp. and FOX corp. The large empire divided between them allows the sales points to have different trends. The magazine gave Trump more skeptical. CT He broke stories about Trump’s silence payments Porn star Stormy Daniels and former playboy bunny karen mcdougal. This year, the editorial board searched for high tariffs “The most stupid trade war in history.”

However, Fox News remains loyal to the president’s camp. Murdoch said, “While holding some of the organization into attack mode, while holding the other [Fox News] As a reserve while taking advantage of the base of the person he attacked, Dod Dodd said.

The media baron has been close to power for a long time. He participated in the second opening of Trump in January and a few weeks later attended business leaders at an oval office meeting.

Murdoch reportedly reported Between Trump’s VIP circle in New Jersey FIFA Club World Cup Football Championship match on July 13.

Two days later, a magazine correspondent, according to Trump’s case, sent E -Post to the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, advising that the newspaper was preparing to publish a story about Epstein’s birthday letter. Trump’s lawyers pushed back, saying that the allegations were wrong.

According to the court files, Trump called Murdoch. “Murdoch advised President Trump that he would ‘take care of him,’ Trump wrote the day he published the story on 17 July. “Obviously, there was no power to do it, Tr Trump wrote.

Trump filed a lawsuit the next day. A Dow Jones spokesman answered: uz We fully trust the meticulousness and accuracy of our report and we will strongly defend against any case. ”

Legal dusting comes after a series of controversial win for the President.

Last month, Paramount Global agreed to pay Trump $ 16 million to solve a dispute on a “60 -minute” arrangements of a Kamala Harris interview, which is a case in which the 1st amendment experts say there was no merit. In December, Walt Disney Co. paid 16 million dollars to end an insulting case against Trump’s ABC News Anchor George Stephanopoulos on the wrong statements – some of the 1st change experts who think that Disney would dominate at the end of Disney.

“President Trump already beat the George Stephanopoulos/ABC, 60 minutes/CBS and others, and once he is looking forward to sucking and holding the Great Wall Street Journal, Tr Trump wrote. “Really ‘disgusting and dirty cloth’ appeared.”

Murdoch observers don’t expect him to surrender.

“In this strange world we live in, Rupert is actually one of the few people who are willing to endure Trump, Kahn Kahn said. Remember, Rupert loves newspapers, loves the bucket and likes to mix the pot. ”

Times staff writer Stephen Battaglio contributed to this report.