Murdoch's New York Post dumps Trump, calling him "unworthy to be chief executive again"

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Source: CNN

New York (CNN)One of Donald Trump's favorite newspapers — controlled by his media ally Rupert Murdoch — says Trump is "unworthy to be this country's chief executive again."

Those words, in this weekend's New York Post, may be the tabloid's strongest critique of Trump yet.
Journalists are unflinching as they cover explosive 1/6 testimony. Meanwhile, MAGA Media spins for Trump
Journalists are unflinching as they cover explosive 1/6 testimony. Meanwhile, MAGA Media spins for Trump
It was published online on Friday evening, around the same time another Murdoch publication, the Wall Street Journal, also published an editorial harshly critiquing the former president.
The Journal called him "The President Who Stood Still on Jan. 6" and praised Vice President Mike Pence. "Character is revealed in a crisis, and Mr. Pence passed his Jan. 6 trial. Mr. Trump utterly failed his," the Journal editorial stated.
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Instead of making excuses or changing the subject, as some conservative commentators have done, the Journal's editorial said Trump "failed" to do his duty as commander in chief.
The Post's editorial page, which wrote last month that "we need a fresh start" with "a new crop of conservatives," went further in its editorial after Thursday's prime time hearing.
"It's up to the Justice Department to decide if this is a crime," the Post said. "But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country's chief executive again."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/media/murdoch-trump-jan-6-new-york-post-wall-street-journal/index.html

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Good news.. The dam is really breaking!

[Stuart G]

1. In my opinion there will be a whole lot more damns to break in breaking Donald Trump.

[Mr.Bill]

2. But he was worthy

the first time?

[Justice matters.]

3. I'm waiting for termination of ingraham, hannity & carlson

and the faux morning anchors before believing it.

[turbinetree]

5. this....

[SouthernDem4ever]

25. That won't happen as long as 2 million morons are still regular watchers

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. Didn't they all say this during the 2015 republican primaries?

It rings a bell for some reason.

[YoshidaYui]

6. I will say it..

Fuck Murdoch, Fuck Fox NEWS, fuck Donald Trump.. fuck the Republican party They have nothing to contribute to society

[C Moon]

14. Agreed.

[KS Toronado]

7. When the dam breaks.....

I hope tRumpie is down stream without a paddle or boat.

[MyMission]

8. New Yorkers already knew that

I'd like to see that article in red and purple zone publications.
And Murdoch is probably trying to distance himself from tfg, the orange menace.

I hate to think of which menace he might endore instead. (Last week I actually saw 2 Floridians in NC, wearing desantis 2024 t shirts.)

[wnylib]

21. The people who enabled Trump and

embraced him as the one who could advance their agenda are now through with him. He is of no more use to them except as someone to reject in order to make themselves look sane and patriotic.

[cstanleytech]

9. Hard to blame Trump for standing still on the 6th as he must have been tired after

all the hard work he put in to pouring gas on the logs for the fire before striking the match.

[andym]

10. Murdoch needs a new Frankenstein's monster-- but the old one still may hold sway

His media empire, including Fox News, may be taken down a few notches if the Murdoch pivot away from Trump to a DeSantis or Abbott fails and Trump re-ascends to the top of the GOP.

[progressoid]

11. So we can have someone worse like DeSantis?

[wnylib]

22. That's the Republican goal.

[newdayneeded]

26. So you want trump instead?

[progressoid]

28. He's easier to beat.

DeSantis is a competent, shrewd, version of Trump without the baggage.

[newdayneeded]

30. Not complimenting DeSantis

but at least he's not itchy to fire off nukes. I truly believe donny in a second term would play that card to insure (in his mind) president for life or at least 3 terms.

[Wolf Frankula]

12. They're Right.

Rump is unworthy to be chief executive.

Wolf

[C Moon]

13. It appears the GOP and their billionaires have decided tfg is no longer needed.

[speak easy]

15. Murdoch dumped Thatcher. He dumped Major.

He dumped Gordon Brown even though he could not stand Cameron. He dumped his son James. He dumped Jerry Hall by email. He did not get a chance to dump Blair while he was still in office, but was not amused when Tony was 'sleeping' with his then wife.

Murdoch takes pride in choosing his timing. The first the PMs knew was when it was on the front page of the Sun.

[speak easy]

16. PS. Rupert likes to have a deal tied up for the next round.

He will be talking to deSantis.

[DonCoquixote]

17. as much as I would love to think the dam is breaking

we all learned that he can win even when the GOP hates him. He vanquished more than a dozen candidates, all of whom hated him (Mitt, Lindsey) who now cower before him. As much as desantis is getting heat, there are many who will find him grating.

[SouthernDem4ever]

18. Seriously, they are so corrupt they don't have a spine

and Murdoch knows it.

[Turbineguy]

19. Murdoch has a new boy

to put in charge of destroying the country.

Trump failed.

[wnylib]

23. +1000

[EndlessWire]

20. Pence did the right thing

but we don't know why, really. He isn't a hero. He stared adoringly at Trump and praised him for four years. He doesn't get to crawl out from underneath that mantle just because he did his job on one day, after having to consult with, of all people, Dan Quayle.

Why did he have to consult with anybody? Why didn't he know? Was he looking for an excuse to do it, and found none?

I am glad he didn't get caught that day. He didn't deserve that for crossing Trump. But, he isn't a hero. He's not particularly Presidential material. He hasn't spoken out against Trump's actions; he didn't testify at the J6, and he'll be wasting his money if he runs for that office.

[heckles65]

24. Doesn't the Bible say something about

how a fool learns in the end what the wise man knows in the beginning?

[Deminpenn]

27. First NY Post, next watch Fox News slowly pivot away

from Trump. It's not like Hannity,Carlson, Ingraham and company have any scruples. Once Fox News stops supporting Trump, so will its loyal viewers.

[Snoopy 7]

29. medal of honor

Is someone keeping up with then number of "medal of honor" medals that we need to start handing out to all the republicans who NOW see trump as a horrible person. First they built him up and made a lot of money by putting the monster in power. Now that the monster is being seen as a nuisance so they start speaking out against him. We had to suffer 4 years of BS while they made money now they want the medal of honor for speaking up to the Jan 6 committee and now taking his mouth piece away after posting nothing but pro-trump BS all this time.

[dchill]

31. Rupert is making himself irrelevant and traitorous...

..to his cash cow ignorant base. He must have finally scared himself!

[Deminpenn]

32. WSJ ran a similar editorial the same day

fwiw.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

33. Words mean nada! If he's serious fire the ffg#45/ Russian propagandists

..NOW-- Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham two others (can't recall their names ) bc they are still carrying water for ffg, iterating the big lie, ignoring J6 riot that their guy incted.