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conix, Rupert Murdoch Tells Trump to STFU About 2020
The Fox News owner said Wednesday that the ex-president is an embarrassment to his party and should stop living in the past.
By Bess Levin November 17, 2021
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/ruper-murdoch-donald-trump-living-in-the-past

"Does Trump realize he’s now just the Democrats’ stooge?"

That was a year ago. To July this year - Fox News, Once Home to Trump, Now Often Ignores Him

The former president hasn’t been interviewed on the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network in more than 100 days, and other Republicans often get the attention he once did.


Former President Donald Trump appearing on Fox News in 2020. He has complained to associates about how little coverage the network has recently given him.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times

By Jeremy W. Peters
July 29, 2022

It’s been more than 100 days since Donald J. Trump was interviewed on Fox News.

The network, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and boosted Mr. Trump’s ascension from real estate developer and reality television star to the White House, is now often bypassing him in favor of showcasing other Republicans.

In the former president’s view, according to two people who have spoken to him recently, Fox’s ignoring him is an affront far worse than running stories and commentary that he has complained are “too negative.” The network is effectively displacing him from his favorite spot: the center of the news cycle.

On July 22, as Mr. Trump was rallying supporters in Arizona and teasing the possibility of running for president in 2024, saying “We may have to do it again,” Fox News chose not to show the event — the same approach it has taken for nearly all of his rallies this year. Instead, the network aired Laura Ingraham’s interview with a possible rival for the 2024 Republican nomination, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. It was the first of two prime-time interviews Fox aired with Mr. DeSantis in the span of five days; he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show shortly after talking to Ms. Ingraham.

When Mr. Trump spoke to a gathering of conservatives in Washington this week, Fox did not air the speech live. It instead showed a few clips after he was done speaking. That same day, it did broadcast live — for 17 minutes — a speech by former Vice President Mike Pence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/business/media/fox-news-donald-trump-rupert-murdoch.html

Now, cutting that time back roughly in half, to your Murdoch's NY Post of today ..

"Does Trump realize he’s now just the Democrats’ stooge?"

[ ... after a typical Murdoch sleaze-bag sentence ...]

"With President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress presiding over a steady stream of disasters from still-soaring inflation, crime, Biden’s questionable faculties and a metastasizing illegal-migrant crisis, they’re beyond eager to have the nation talking about . . . Donald Trump. "

[... they go on to further tell Trump what an asshole he is. All the while
struggling to keep their anti-Democrat conservative base on side ...]

"More important, most of that spending wouldn’t have passed if Trump’s late-2020 “stolen election” lunacy hadn’t given Democrats control of the US Senate by depressing GOP turnout in the Georgia runoffs.

The best chance to change course now is this year’s midterms, which could give Republicans control of the House and Senate — though Trump’s made that far harder by pushing dubious candidates in the GOP primaries (and then failing to open his $100 million-plus campaign war chest to help them in the general).

Democrats, by the way, are so pleased with Trump’s involvement that they spent at least $53 million promoting his candidates in the primaries. And he’s no doubt secretly pleased at all the free publicity they simultaneously give him by ranting, from Biden on down, about the supposed “MAGA Republican” threat to democracy.

[Insert: conix, you should have told hap0206 that back when he said the Dems were afraid of Trump. Couldn't find .. ah, after making this post, just found it "I got it -- the dems do not like him -- the dems fear him"
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170088995 . OT: it's funny that in this article of yours there is probably more truth than we've seen in about any other post of the Post's you've made before.]

After a summertime bump in the polls, Dem fortunes this fall were starting to look worse last week in the wake of fresh bad news on inflation as the migrant crisis started hitting northern cities.

We’ve said it before, more than once: Democrats’ best hope in the runup to Nov. 8 is that Trump will keep stepping in to make himself the center of attention, on subjects that are inevitably all about him — not the nation’s many needs.

Does he not know the Dems see him as effectively their stooge, or does he just not care?"

Your link - https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/does-trump-realize-hes-now-just-the-democrats-stooge/

Yeah millions of us were saying it before you started to.

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Typical NY Post load a crap. The warranted 1/6 hearings and their disastrous revelations about Trump, the shit show that IS Trump's treasonous theft of docs, the GA 'I just need 11K more votes' case and the case in NY are what have made Trump a legit campaign issue, for the simple fact of all the stop the steal morons running who still support Trump.

And no mention of the Infrastructure Bill, the chip Bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, which will increase domestic energy production, lower energy and healthcare costs, and pay down our national debt without raising costs for working Americans, count as achievements, which undermine any point the editorial tried and failed to make.

Lastly, thanks to a really dumb and very unpopular SCOTUS abortion decision, more women will turn out to vote against the GOP Taliban than would have been thought possible before that dumb-ass decision.