Exposed: Fox News and its boss Rupert Murdoch rigged the election for Donald Trump
We all know that Fox News spent the 2016 election running half-true and untrue stories aimed at helping Donald Trump and harming Hillary Clinton. But now it turns out Fox News and its head honcho Rupert Murdoch went much further, to the point of outright rigging the election in Trump’s favor.
In a lengthy and stunning new expose from Jane Mayer in the New Yorker, we’re learning that Fox News knew during the election about Donald Trump’s affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, but decided not to report the story because Rupert Murdoch wanted Trump to win. Withholding a major story like this, for the sake of altering the outcome of the election, qualifies as rigging the election. It gets worse.
Fox News also fed Trump at least one Republican primary debate question in advance. Not only is that cheating, it means Fox rigged the primary race in Trump’s favor, against the other Republican candidates. Fox wasn’t merely trying to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances in the election; it was specifically trying to rig the election in favor of one Republican candidate over the others. That’s surreal.
Fox and Murdoch have always been unscrupulous and dishonest. But this is over-the-top brazen even by their standards. Why would Fox News go this far to try to install one Republican candidate in particular, over all the other Republican candidates who also fit with the network’s ideology? Jane Mayer’s reporting today is extensive, but you have to wonder if there’s even more to the story that we don’t know yet.
