Rupert Murdoch calls on Donald Trump to leave the past behind
- Media mogul sends message to Trump as former US president weighs political future
- Murdoch, a political conservative, has sometimes fallen out of favour with Trump
Media baron Rupert Murdoch told former US president Donald Trump that he needed to leave the past behind and focus on the future to address problems the country faces.
“The current American political debate is profound, whether about education or welfare or economic opportunity,” Murdoch told shareholders at the annual of meeting of his News Corp on Wednesday. “It is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate, but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past. The past is the past, and the country is now in a contest to define the future.”
After initially inviting guests on the network who supported Trump’s claims of election fraud, Fox later aired an interview debunking those claims and parted ways with pro-Trump host Lou Dobbs. Fox Corp, which owns Fox News, is being sued by two makers of voting technology that say the network falsely reported that they had rigged the election. Fox has said it did nothing wrong.