DISCARDED: Rupert Murdoch is now using his media properties to actively attack Donald Trump

Rupert Murdoch is now using his media properties to actively attack Donald Trump

The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post has no love lost for Donald Trump.

The right-wing print arm of the Fox News founder’s media conglomerate took shots at the ex-President after his “major announcement” massive fail.

Trump loyalists and MAGA were abuzz after their king announced something big was brewing, wondering what the big reveal would be.

There were whispers that Trump was going to run for Speaker of the House amidst GOP chaos and lack of consensus behind Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Nope.

Instead, the shameless businessman would unveil his latest venture – digital trading cards, sending the country into fits of laughter – and for most Republicans, annoyance.

“Don’t give money to con artist Trump,” the less-than-impressed New York Post’s editorial board controlled by Rupert Murdoch wrote.

“For those still inundated with Trump’s pleas for donations, which arrive three or four times a day with ALL CAPS emails and efforts to shame you into ‘not letting him down,’ this is no surprise.”

And they weren’t alone.

Even die-hard ally, fascist propaganda pusher Steve Bannon had enough.

CNN showed a clip of the disgruntled show host on an episode of his podcast the War Room.

“I can’t do this anymore,” Bannon told guest Sebastian Gorka. “He’s one of the greatest presidents in history, but I gotta tell ya whoever, what business partner and anybody in the comms team, anybody at Mar-a-Lago – and I love the folks down there – but we’re at war. They ought to be fired today.”

Even the “I believe JFK Jr. will rise from the dead and be Vice President” QAnon crowd found Trump’s trading card news hard to swallow.

According to VICE, QAnon followers lashed out on the encrypted app Telegram at what some called the “shit storm debacle NFT announcement.”

Others referred to it as a “foolish NFT cash grab,” and that the 2024 presidential candidate was “shilling NFTs for campaign funds.”

The cards retail for $99 a piece, and reportedly raised over $4.5 million in the day since they went on the market.

But neither Rupert Murdoch nor his New York Post are fooled, pointing out the continuous con being run on donors since Trump left office.

The locks were barely changed after his exit from the White House before Trump began raising money to “Stop the Steal” to the tune of $100 million.

The money was funneled to himself.

He also hoarded tens of millions of dollars meant to be spent on Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms but instead went into the money launderer’s coffers.

Big dollar donors have had enough, and apparently so were once loyal media outlets like The New York Post — which wrote “Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us 1,438 times, and it may finally be too much” — and it’s owner Rupert Murdoch.

Original reporting by the Post Editorial Board at the New York Post.

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Ty Ross

News journalist for Washington Press and Occupy Democrats.