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Fox Turns On Fat Felon Fascist Fuehrer Trump. He has Nobody But The Foreign Controlled Media To Serve Him Now.

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	Early this year Donald Trump participated in a live town hall event 
on Fox News.

In previous years, this would not be a surprise, or even noteworthy. As 
president, the former reality-television star and obsessive cable news 
viewer made Fox an extension of his White House, where he installed a 
large flatscreen TV in the president’s private dining room next to the 
Oval Office. Sit-down interviews and phone calls into live Fox broadcasts 
were part of the everyday fabric of Trump’s presidency.

But this time was different. It had been nearly two years since Trump had 
appeared live on Fox. Bad blood between the two sides had spilled into 
public view, with Rupert Murdoch-owned media properties branding Trump a 
“loser” and the former president deriding Fox for “always attempting . . 
. to only show negatives on MAGA & TRUMP”. The break-up shook America’s 
conservative mediasphere.

Despite all this baggage, Trump agreed to show up to a convention centre 
in Des Moines, Iowa, on the evening of January 10, where voters asked him 
questions about his bid for re-election live on-air, moderated by Fox 
presenters Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

During the programme, Trump could not resist a dig at the broadcaster. In 
response to a tough question from a supporter, the former president 
replied: “I am very glad that you started off by saying you’re with me . 
. . I figured maybe Fox would have written that question [otherwise].” 
But days later, Trump was boasting about the ratings for the event. “They 
did very well the other night with that wonderful town hall, thank you 
very much.”

Since then, the frosty relationship between Trump and Murdoch — the two 
most powerful forces in US conservatism — appears to have thawed.
The Trump machine

How radical would a Trump second term be? This is the third in a series 
on the individuals and groups that are backing the former president’s bid 
to return to the White House

Part one: The new inner circle
Part two: Trump and his donors
Part three: Maga media

Trump has ramped up his presence on Murdoch’s network, appearing or 
calling in several times since January’s town hall. An increasing number 
of Trump allies and campaign officials appear regularly on the cable news 
network’s flagship programmes.

In turn, observers say Fox has opted to deliver its viewers what they 
want: more Trump. After flirtations with Republican challengers like Ron 
DeSantis — with the Murdoch-owned New York Post newspaper last year 
offering a front page branding the Florida governor “DeFuture” — Fox has 
again embraced the former president, if reluctantly.

Every media outlet in the world is grappling with how to cover Trump, as 
his public pronouncements become more stuffed with exaggerations and 
false claims, and as he attempts to run for president while also 
appearing in courthouses, having been charged with dozens of felonies.

But the dilemma is perhaps most vexing for Fox News, as it looks to 
preserve its place as the artery of the American right. While the rest of 
the US media faces declining trust and a broken commercial model that has 
resulted in mass lay-offs across the sector, Fox has, for the most part, 
remained a staple of the conservative media diet.

Despite fears that its tensions with Trump would harm ratings, the 
channel still trounces its competitors in popularity. It averaged 1.3mn 
viewers a day in the first quarter, compared to just 467,000 for CNN and 
814,000 for MSNBC.

But while Fox wants to hold on to that lead, it knows there are risks 
associated with getting too close to Trump. The broadcaster last year 
agreed to pay nearly $800mn to settle a lawsuit brought by voting 
technology group Dominion, which accused Fox of defamation after it aired 
false claims of election fraud in 2020. A $2.7bn lawsuit brought by 
voting company Smartmatic is still live. 

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