The New York Times reported Friday that Fox News has not had Donald Trump on its network in over 100 days, which the paper said was part of a larger strategy to eliminate the former president as a major GOP player.
Fox News Banning Trump From Network
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fox-news-donald-trump-republican-leader/2022/07/30/id/1081040/
EXCERPT:
The decision to shun Trump has been made at “the highest levels” of Fox’s parent
company, and is backed by its billionaire chairman, Rupert Murdoch, and his son,
company CEO Lachlan Murdoch.
Both are Republicans, but are said to have to developed a strong distaste for Trump.
Earlier this month, the Murdoch-owned newspapers the New York Post and The Wall
Street Journal published harsh rebukes of Trump’s actions regarding Jan. 6 while strongly
opposing a Trump bid for president in 2024.
The Times said Trump’s failure to accept the 2020 election result was at the root of the
Murdochs’ criticism of the former president, a view shared by Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Trump has not hidden his new distaste for Fox News.
Shortly after his loss to Joe Biden, Trump blamed the network’s negative coverage of his
presidency for his 2020 election loss.
And, this week, Trump blasted “Fox & Friends” on his Truth Social account for being
“terrible” and having “gone to the dark side.”
Trump suggested former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s sitting on Fox Corp.’s board of
directors is behind the shadow banning of Trump.
Meanwhile, The Times said Fox has sought to displace Trump with other GOP 2024
contenders, notably Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
A recent FoxNews.com report featured man-on-the-street interviews with Trump
“supporters” who did not want him to run again and “unanimously” backed DeSantis for
2024.
“I spent 11 years at Fox, and I know nothing pretaped hits a Fox screen that hasn’t been
signed off on and sanctioned at the very top levels of management — especially when it
has to do with a presidential election,” Newsmax host Eric Bolling said in a monologue this
week.
Dick Morris, a former Fox News Analyst who is currently with Newsmax, said The Times’
report should not surprise anyone who has been watching Fox.
“Lachlan Murdoch and the network’s leadership wants Fox to be more like CNN,” Morris
said.
“The Fox ban of Trump is a politically motivated decision, not based on news value,
because Trump completely dominates the Republican Party and is still the biggest
newsmaker in politics,” Morris added.
Recent polls show Trump crushing all potential opponents in a Republican primary.
A recent Harvard-Harris poll had Trump pulling 56% of the vote against a field of seven
GOP rivals, including DeSantis with 16%.
Morris is out with a new book, “The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback,” that argues
Trump will easily win the upcoming Republican primary, but is the only GOP candidate who
can win against the Democrats in 2024.
“There’s a reason millions of former Fox News viewers are watching Newsmax now,”
Morris said. “They cover real news, including the former — and future — president.”
Trump doesn’t need any of the fake opinionated propaganda bootlicking machines Just look at the attendance at his rallies.
#BoycottFox
Fox just kicked themselves in the balls again 😂
No Fox if that’s true… My neighbors and I want to see Donald Trump more… Even if he doesn’t run for president again he’s a leader that was for our country and for the middle class.
Once considered to be the best place for news, Fox has become other people opinions not the news. I get tired of hearing “in my opinion”, I just want facts. W e all know things aren’t right in America, so lets fix it. Stop protecting the guilty, covering up the lies, and conjuring up problems to get off the real news. So by shunning Trump you have just set your own fate Fox
Wonder how they will divide the 30n pieces of silver. Fox WAS my channel but I cannot support someone whom can turn on a dime and start stabbing you in the back. Fox is betraying all the right thinking Conservatives who thought that we would get a fair shake and honest take on the mews. Instead we are getting kicked to the curb again by a bunch of sheep in Foxes clothing