No, not by the January 6th hearing but by the Murdochs.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/07/ny-post-editorial-trump-has-proven-himself
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/07/ny-post-editorial-trump-has-proven-himself
Trump's last nail in his coffin
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Paywall. Sorry, not buying it.
The article is not in a paywall.
Rupert Murdoch Dumps Trump For Good In The Span Of 73 Minutes
Two influential Rupert Murdoch newspapers came out on Friday with editorials damning Trump. The NY Post called Trump "unworthy" and the Wall Street Journal said he "utterly failed" on January 6th.
By Ed Scarce — July 24, 2022
This is what it looks like when Rupert Murdoch decides that Donald Trump isn't going to be the Republican nominee in 2024. Both the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal ran editorials condemning Trump for his actions and inaction on January 6 in the span of a few minutes of each other.
Source: The Hill
The New York Post’s editorial board said in an editorial published on Friday that former President Trump has proven himself “unworthy” to serve as the country’s president again based on his hours-long refusal to attempt to quell the mob of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The editorial is a stepped-up criticism of Trump from a piece the board published last month, which said “it’s time for Republicans to move on” from the former president. The board endorsed Trump for president in 2020.
The editorial from Friday said that the debate over whether Trump’s speech at the Ellipse before the insurrection incited the mob is “somewhat of a red herring” from what it said was a more noteworthy point, that Trump “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the violent riot for three hours and seven minutes.
“It’s up to the Justice Department to decide if this is a crime. But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again,” the board said.
If anything, the Wall Street Journal editorial was even more blunt, calling Trump the president who stood still.
The brute facts remain: Mr. Trump took an oath to defend the Constitution, and he had a duty as Commander in Chief to protect the Capitol from a mob attacking it in his name. He refused. He didn’t call the military to send help. He didn’t call Mr. Pence to check on the safety of his loyal VP. Instead he fed the mob’s anger and let the riot play out.
Character is revealed in a crisis, and Mr. Pence passed his Jan. 6 trial. Mr. Trump utterly failed his.
Thanx for the text. I kept getting a pop-up about signing-into the site that would not close.
It does not matter what it says in those articles, however. They can all opine as much as they want about Trump not being fit to be POTUS again. The people are going to vote him in again.
"The people" didn't vote for him the first time,or the 2nd time.
He is your new president in 2024. Deal with it now, or suffer the mental pain later when he is elected.
It is not like the tax return audit is going to hamper his chances. Yeah, remember that bit? Where are the tax-returns? Still under audit after 6-7 years!
AHHAHA, the guy is untouchable. He's fucking slick that way, and is a SNAKE.
Here is the same thing from another source. These type of harsh opinion pieces don't land up in Murdoch publications unless they approved by the ownership. The right-wing media and many conservative publications (Bulwark, etc.) are turning on Trump.
‘Utterly Failed’ and ‘Unworthy’ for Office: Both Murdoch-Owned Newspapers Turn on Trump
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/utte...-both-murdoch-owned-newspapers-turn-on-trump/
Has Rupert Murdoch turned on former President Donald Trump? A pair of blistering opinion pieces by two U.S. newspapers he owns suggests that the answer to that question is yes, he has.
Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post published harsh criticism of the former president in the past few days, including “utterly failed” and “unfit for office,” respectively, following damning evidence put forth Thursday night by the House Select Committee about Trump’s actions, or lack thereof, during a fateful 187 minutes while the Capitol riots unfolded.
The WSJ Editorial board published a piece titled “The President Who Stood Still on Jan. 6,” the lede of which read, “No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out in hearings are sobering. The most horrifying to date came Thursday in a hearing on President Trump’s conduct as the riot raged and he sat watching TV, posting inflammatory tweets and refusing to send help.”
More damning to Trump was its conclusion: “Character is revealed in a crisis, and Mr. Pence passed his Jan. 6 trial. Mr. Trump utterly failed his.”
The more populist New York Post also hit out at Trump on Friday in a similar jeremiad that concluded with, “It’s up to the Justice Department to decide if this is a crime. But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”
Though Rupert Murdoch has been absent from the public arena for some time, his influence in the political media sphere is unmatched due to the outlets he still owns. The largest piece of his media empire, however, is Fox News, which has thus far largely kept its powder dry when it comes to condemning Trump’s actions surrounding January 6th.
News anchor Bret Baier called Trump’s inaction on that day “horrific,” but the top-rated opinion hosts on the network have been largely dedicated to dismissing the January 6th hearings as political theater that should be ignored.
Well, as it stands, the editorial boards at the WSJ and the NY Post — which are outlets regularly cited by Fox News hosts — are not in accord with Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and, say, Mark Levin, each of whom has dismissed evidence put forth by Republicans who were former Trump loyalists, at least before the events of January 6th.
Will Fox News be the next Murdoch outlet to condemn Trump? Don’t count on it.
