- by cnn
- 15 Aug 2024
Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch has said Donald Trump should stop focusing âon the pastâ in a rare public rebuke of the former US president.
On Wednesday addressing the annual meeting of stockholders for News Corp Murdoch said: âThe current American political debate is profound, whether about education or welfare or economic opportunity.
âIt is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate, but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past. The past is the past, and the country is now in a contest to define the future.â
Murdoch, who is also co-chair of Fox news parent Fox Corporation, has made few public comments about Trump, whose presidency was championed by most of Foxâs biggest commentators. Since his defeat Trump has continued to push unfounded conspiracy theories that the election was âstolenâ by Joe Biden, who beat Trump by a margin of more than 7m votes.
Until now the 90-year-old media mogul has publicly stayed out of the fray and not commented on the election. But according to Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff in private he has called Trump âa fucking idiotâ.
Trump has had a testy relationship with Fox claiming, without evidence, that its ratings had âcompletely collapsedâ after the news channel made an early call for Bidenâs victory in the last election. He has forged closer ties with Foxâs much smaller rivals OAN and Newsmax but has lost much of his online media presence after being banned by Twitter and Facebook.
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