Rightwing media’s coverage of Trump’s presidential bid shows it just can’t turn away
by Adam Gabbatt from US news | The Guardian on (#65WB9)
The evening was full of contradictory messages supporting and slighting the former president
All the signs in the past week have been that the Rupert Murdoch-owned US media was ready to ditch Donald Trump en masse. The New York Post mocked Trump as Humpty Dumpty, the Wall Street Journal declared him to be the Republican party's biggest loser" and even Fox News offered scant defense of Trump's miserable midterm elections.
Watching Fox News on Tuesday night, however, as Trump announced he was running for president yet again in 2024, it seemed that not everyone was ready to let Trump go.
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