Rupert Murdoch Has A Scathing Message For Donald Trump

In many ways, one could argue that for conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump is good for business. As the owner of the media conglomerate News Corp, whose flagships include Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, coverage of Trump and his antics bolstered viewership for the former throughout Trump's term in office — enough so that ratings slumped immediately following President Joe Biden's inauguration in January. Ratings aside, many of Fox News' regular pundits have continued to report on (and express loyalty for) Trump, despite his seemingly never-ending tirade over his unsubstantiated and factually deflated claims of election fraud in November 2020. (As recently as late October, the network aired a weeklong special masterminded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson which attempted to argue that the Capitol insurrection in January was a "false flag" operation, with the goal of shifting blame to a nebulous, caricatured "deep state," rather than the hundreds of right-wing rioters whose actions were extensively documented.)

But even if Trump was once a financial boon for Murdoch's media enterprises, it appears even the Australian-born billionaire and media baron has his limits. And now, according to recent reports, Murdoch has gone on the record with a message to Trump over the ex-commander-in-chief's continuous, sputtering loop of baseless fraud claims — and, suffice it to say, it seems Murdoch has had more than enough of it.