Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch has been considered a kingmaker in Republican circles. Now two men he shunned — former President Donald Trump and former Fox star Tucker Carlson — are in the spotlight.
Right-wing personality Tucker Carlson laughs as he stands alongside Congressman Byron Donalds, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. said that Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch no longer commands the same fear and respect in the Republican Party he once did. “As this week has unfolded, it appears that Murdoch is the one bending the knee.
Murdoch has accompanied top executives at Fox News and the Wall Street Journal in visiting their teams in Milwaukee. Yet Murdoch was sure to notice Tucker Carlson, the former Fox primetime star whom the Murdochsafter a raft of scandals at the network, standing nearly shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump in the candidate’s own viewing box. Carlson received a hero’s welcome from former colleagues as he entered Fox’s green room at the convention site on Tuesday night, according to.
After Fox correctly, if perhaps prematurely, projected that Joe Biden had won Arizona on Election Night 2020, Trump scorned Murdoch and Fox. The then-president also claimed, without evidence, that Biden had cheated.instigated variously by FBI plants and Antifa operatives. Murdoch and Fox brass had stood by Carlson as one of hisafter it was revealed he had written racist, sexist and homophobic posts — and even as Carlson’s own commentaries were denounced as hateful.
He, along with Trump Jr., had lobbied Trump on behalf of Vance, and he was the one standing and applauding alongside the former president on the convention’s opening night. His influence has helped to elevate the profile of Hungarian President, now a political ally of Trump. He has sought to force himself into the news cycle through interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Steve Bannon, Aaron Rodgers and Alex Jones among others.
That is something Murdoch has in common with the former president. This week, Trump unveiled as his running mate a senator who had entered the political fray as a full-blown critic,
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