Since Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination in 2016, and particularly after he won the White House later that year, the Murdoch media empire has remained in Trump’s corner.
Of course there were holdouts, but most of them have been vanquished. At the Murdochs’ flagship enterprise of Fox News, two longtime anchors, Shepherd Smith and Chris Wallace, left over frustration with the opinion side’s fealty to the former president. The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, both contributors to the cable news network, followed suit over the release of a Tucker Carlson documentary that suggested that the January 6 Capitol riot was a false-flag event.
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