SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 17: Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman News Corporation looks on during a panel discussion at the B20 meeting of company CEO's on July 17, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Over 350 business leaders have gathered in Sydney for the 2014 B20 Summit to discuss and determine policy recommendations ahead of the G20 Leaders Meeting in Brisbane later this year. (Photo by Jason Reed - Pool/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch after the Wall Street Journal suggested a dip in his popularity.
“The Wall Street Journal and FoxNews keep pushing the narrative, through Trey Gowdy and others, that ‘BOTH’ Crooked Joe Biden and 45th President Donald J. Trump are unpopular within their own Party,” he said. “This happens to be true for Crooked Joe, where they won’t even let RFK Jr. have his votes fairly counted (more RIGGING, and STEALING Elections!), but VERY untrue for ‘TRUMP,’ where I have a 90% Approval Rating, and am crushing the ‘second tier’ candidates by 50, 60, and even 70 Points. THAT’S POPULAR!” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Lashing out at Fox in particular, Trump questioned the network’s $800 million settlement it paid Dominion Voting Systems in April after the network aired Trump’s false claims of fraud about the company. Referring to the Wall Street Journal and Fox as “damaged goods,” he termed the settlement “stupid.”
This social media outburst from the former president is part of a series of attacks he has launched against Murdoch, The Journal and Fox News.
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