Report: Murdoch Instructed Ailes to ‘Tilt to Anyone But Trump’, Including Hillary

Fox News publically feuded with Donald Trump throughout the campaign, most notably with Megyn Kelly, but most assumed the network would back whoever opposed Hillary Clinton. According to recent reports, that wasn’t the case.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch wanted to tilt the U.S. presidential election to any candidate but President Trump, according to a longtime friend of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.

“Murdoch instructed Ailes to tilt to anyone but Trump, Ailes confided to me before he was fired, even Hillary. (Ailes, for his part, characterized Murdoch’s periodic efforts at interference as similar to Nixon’s instructions to bomb this or that country — best ignored.),” Michael Wolff wrote in a column Thursday, one day before the one-year anniversary of Ailes’ resignation.

The former writer for USA Today and the UK edition of GQ insisted Ailes’ unapologetic support for President Trump ultimately led to his firing by the parent company’s Murdoch family.

“It was Ailes’ tacit support of Trump that, in part, made his removal from Fox all the more urgent for the Murdochs. And it was not just the liberal sons who were agitated by Ailes’ regard for Trump, but also the father, whose tabloid, the New York Post, helped create Trump, but who found him now, with great snobbery, not of ‘our’ conservative class,” Wolff wrote.

With no press support, Trump instead turned to Twitter to get out his message — a strategy that eventually sent him to the WHite house. It’s probably for that reason that the networks want him removed from the platform — with CNN leading the charge.

Source: Washington Examiner