Trump was furious and threatened to tweet. But in July 2015, after Trump launched his explosive campaign for the Republican presidential nomination with a racist rant about Mexicans, the Fox News owner tweeted: “When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing the whole country?”Ī week later, the New York Times described Murdoch disparaging Trump. Trump and Murdoch were not close before Trump entered politics. Kushner claims to have convinced Murdoch to support Trump in 2015.
Kushner also describes how Wendi Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s third wife, helped get him back with Ivanka Trump after a breakup. In his book, Trump’s son-in-law, who became a senior White House adviser, describes a friendship with Murdoch built on time on Murdoch’s yacht and at Bono’s house in France, watching the U2 frontman sing with Bob Geldof and Billy Joel. The book lands at a time when Murdoch’s newspapers and to some extent Fox News are widely seen to be pulling away from Trump, amid congressional hearings into his election subversion and the January 6 attack, speculation about criminal charges and as he prepares another White House run. The Guardian obtained a copy of Kushner’s book, which will be published next month. Despite persistent reports of friction between the two men, Murdoch supported Trump through four tumultuous years in power which culminated in Trump’s refusal to admit defeat and the deadly attack on Congress. Murdoch’s support, chiefly through Fox News, did much to boost Trump to victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
If his claim is true, he could be seen to have made a hugely consequential intervention in modern US history. ‘You don’t need to get on the wrong side of Rupert. “‘Please, you’re in a Republican primary,’ I said, hoping he wasn’t about to post a negative tweet aimed at the most powerful man in conservative media. In the book, Breaking History, Kushner writes: “Trump called me.
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