Rupert Murdoch 'often wishes Donald Trump dead'

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump, pictured in June 2016. Photo: Carlo Allegri/REUTERS

Rupert Murdoch often wishes Donald Trump would die during According to a new biography, the former US president is “foaming at the mouth.”

The media mogul’s Fox News channel supported the Republican, when he won the White House in 2016. But Murdoch, 92, is now adamantly opposed to the possibility of a second Trump presidency.

Mr Murdoch has become a fierce critic of the 77-year-old, who is the overwhelming favorite to face Joe Biden, 80, in the presidential contest. next presidential election.

Trump's death has become a recurring theme in the Australian billionaire's rants, according to journalist Michael Wolf's new book, The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty.

Mr. Wolf has written three books about her. «Mr. Trump,» including «Fire and Fury,» as well as an earlier headline about Mr. Murdoch, who he claims personally supported Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden in 2020.

Mr Trump falsely claimed there was voter fraud in 2020 and that the election was stolen. These claims culminated in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6.

«Of all Trump's implacable enemies, Murdoch has become the foaming-at-the-mouth man,» Mr Wolf said in the book, which will be published in the US next Tuesday.

«His relatively calm behavior during his early presidency What could have been a sighing dismissal of Trump as simply a “fucking idiot” has now become a seething mixture of rage and recrimination.

“Trump's death became Murdoch's theme: 'We'd all be better off…' “Everything would be solved if…” “How could he still be alive, how could he?” “Have you seen him?” Have you seen what he looks like? What is he eating?

Mr. Wolf writes that after Mr. Trump left office, Mr. Murdoch “convinced himself” that the former president was finally vulnerable and that he sway among the Republican base has waned.

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Instead, despite facing 91 criminal charges, Trump, who claims to be in exceptional physical condition, has a huge lead in the polls Republican nomination in 2024.