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.”
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