Furious Trump called Rupert Murdoch and screamed about Fox News calling Arizona

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/furious-trump-called-rupert-murdoch-and-screamed-about-fox-news-calling-arizona/

Sources are telling Vanity Fair that President Donald Trump is continuing to rage in private about Fox News calling Arizona for former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night.

Fox’s numbers crunchers calculated the total votes cast and the division between the two candidates and determined Tuesday night that it wasn’t possible for Trump to eke out a win.

Reporter Gabriel Sherman characterized it as “a civil war” between Trump and the network, though civility isn’t exactly Trump’s tactic.

“According to a source, Trump phoned Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to scream about the call and demand a retraction,” said Vanity Fair. “Murdoch refused, and the call stood. Trump and Murdoch have been at odds for months over election coverage. In September, I reported that Trump complained to Murdoch about Fox’s polling. Murdoch has been telling associates for months that Trump would lose the election.”

[d_b]

1. "NOW I GOTTA SEND STONE DOWN THERE TO FIX THIS SHIT!"

[Mike 03]

2. Trump is angry all the time. Why won't that orange fucker just have a cataclysmic

stroke and put an end to our nation's misery?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. That was predictable:

Monday:

What I predict he will do: make increasingly unhinged tweets about how Fox has let him down

by not reporting His Glorious Victory. He will say he expected it from the traitorous CNN etc., but he's been stabbed in the back by Fox (I reckon at least Stephen Miller will describe it like that; he knows his Nazi history, and can probably put the words in Trump's mouth/twitter account). There may be a shout-out to OANN for denying reality along with him.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14410854

Today:

3:10 p.m. ET
Gabriel Sherman: A civil war is raging between Fox News and Donald Trump over Fox's controversial decision to be the first media outlet to call Arizona for Joe Biden just before 11:30 p.m. last night. According to a source, Trump phoned Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to scream about the call and demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, and the call stood. Trump and Murdoch have been at odds for months over election coverage. In September, I reported that Trump complained to Murdoch about Fox's polling. Murdoch has been telling associates for months that Trump would lose the election.

Tensions between Fox's pro-Trump opinion hosts and the news division are flaring over the Arizona call. "We called it long before MSNBC!" one outraged staffer on the opinion side told me. "We were so worried about being seen as pro-Trump that we bent over backwards."

Some Republicans blame Fox for setting the narrative that Trump lost, even though the Associated Press later called Arizona for Biden. (As of Wednesday afternoon, NBC News, along with CNN, still haven’t called Arizona). "Fox News committed news malpractice and voter suppression last night," former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg told me. "There's got to be a change there or there will be major consequences. Chris Wallace wouldn't shut up the whole night! I switched to CNN anytime he came on." The Trump campaign and a Fox Corp spokesperson declined to comment.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/2020-election-live-polls-and-results

[Blaukraut]

4. Murdoch wants Trump gone because he is bad for business

In the long term. Four more years of featuring an increasingly unhinged Trump on the Fox shows will eventually turn off a good amount of the audience.

[TlalocW]

5. I would think Murdoch would do this for other republicans

I guess he's as sick of Trump's shit as the rest of us.

TlalocW

[malaise]

6. Let him rage from Mar-a-Lago

He'll have to drop the fees - no one likes a loser - this shitshow is over.