The book, entitled “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty,” was written by Michael Wolff, who already has several Trump books on his conscience.
He is perhaps best known for the controversial book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” published when Donald Trump was president.
The book contains a number of sensational claims, such as Trump’s campaign team being shocked when he won, and his wife Melania Trump crying in despair, making headlines.
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Now Wolff is working on a book about another controversial figure – Rupert Murdoch (92).
This media magnate has built one of the largest media empires in the world, including Fox News. On Thursday, he announced that he would retire, ending his role as chairman of Fox News and News Corp.
– Wants Trump dead
When Donald Trump entered the electoral arena in 2015, and declared that he was running for the Republican nomination for president, he was largely promoted by Fox News and other outlets in Murdoch’s right-wing media empire, which gave him a platform to spread the message, sit down.
However, Murdoch’s dissatisfaction with Trump is said to have grown stronger over the years.
In 2016, about a month before Trump took office in the Oval Office, Murdoch reportedly called Trump an “idiot” after a telephone conversation with him, according to Wolff’s “Fire and Fury.” Independent written previously.
After a presidential term, a “rigged election” and the possibility of a new nomination imminent, relations between the two seem to have deteriorated completely. This was written by The Guardian who has obtained a copy of the book.
In the book, Wolff claims that Murdoch is now not only angry that Trump decided to try to become a presidential candidate once again, but actually often wishes him dead, writes The Guardian.
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“Fraudster”
Murdoch dislikes Trump so much that it almost “comes out” of his mouth when he talks about Trump, the author claims, according to the newspaper.
“This would be resolved if…”, “How could he still be alive, how could he?”, “Did you see him? Have you seen what he looks like? What does he eat?” often heard from the 92-year-old when Trump is discussed, according to the book.
Wolff’s Murdoch book, which will be published next week, is the second book the author has written about the media mogul. His previous book, “The Man Who Owns the News”, was published in 2008, and Wolff stated that he was the “journalist, who was not one of his employees, who knew Murdoch best”.
The new book is based on “conversations specific to this book, and other conversations that have occurred over the years…events that I personally witnessed or that I retold with the help of people who participated in them,” Wolff said was working on his book, according to The Guardian.
CNN However, it warns against considering everything listed in the book as good fish.
In the draft the channel read, careless errors were discovered “at first glance”. They were also told by sources at Fox that no effort was made to fact-check the content, CNN wrote.
However, Wolff told the channel that all the main characters in the book had been contacted for comment, including Murdoch. According to the author, his comments should have been “no thanks,” wrote CNN.
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When Wolff published the book “Fire and Fury” in 2018, it was not well received by the sitting president, who tried to stop the book. However, this caused the publisher to speed up its publication.
– I did not give any access to the White House (I actually refused it many times) to the author of that fake book! I never spoke to him for the book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and non-existent sources, Trump goes on a Twitter rampage, now X.
based on CNN 1.7 million copies of the book were sold during its first three weeks on sale.
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