‘F...k Him,” Rupert Murdoch Said Of Donald Trump When Fox News Called Arizona For Biden, Book Says
When Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden it ended any chance of Donald Trump winning the 2020 presidential election in the eyes of the network and was so controversial that many longtime viewers of Fox News abandoned the network.
It was also so controversial that the man at the Decision Desk who made the call, Chris Stirewalt, was later fired.
But, according to a new book, the decision came from a person much higher at the network than fall guy Stirewalt, and that was the owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, Business Insider reported.
In his new book, “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” author Michael Wolff detailed what he said happened.
Wolff wrote that Murdoch’s son Lachlan, the CEO of Fox Corporation, got a call from the network’s election-data operation shortly after 11 p.m. ET on election night saying it was ready to declare Arizona for Biden.
The book noted that the Murdochs — who spearhead a vast right-wing media empire — had “every reason” to delay calling Arizona at the time, given Fox’s steadfast allegiance to Trump and the fact that no other network had made the call yet.
“Lachlan got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. His father, with signature grunt, assented, adding, ‘F— him,'” in reference to Trump, Wolff said in the book.
But Fox Media has denied the reporting in the book to Business Insider after it published the story.
“This account is completely false,” it said. “Arnon Mishkin who leads the FOX News Decision Desk made the Arizona call on election night and FOX News Media President Jay Wallace was then called in the control room. Any other version of the story is wildly inaccurate.”
It is important to note that Wolff has had issues in the past, with his previous book on the Trump administration being scrutinized by fact checkers and reporters who said that some of the details in the book did not add up.
Wolff said that when the network decided to make the call on Arizona that anchor Bill Hemmer told Trump’s lead social-media strategist, Jason Miller who had a furious response.
“Miller involuntarily rose from his seat. ‘What the f—?’ he said out loud, looking around and seeing the still-merry and untroubled faces in the Map Room,” he said.
“That’s what they’re doing. That’s what they’re going with,” Hemmer reportedly said, according to Wolff’s account.
“Who?” Miller asked.
“The election desk,” Hemmer said, adding that the network’s decision was going to be aired imminently, the book said.
In a statement to Insider, a Fox News spokesperson denied the Hemmer anecdote, saying: “This never happened and is completely untrue.”
The Trump campaign was infuriated with the decision by Fox News, according to the book.
“What the f—? How can they call this?” Trump said, Wolff reported. “We’re winning. And everybody can see we are going to win. Everybody’s calling to say that we’re winning. And then they pull this?”
In January 2021 Stirewalt appeared on MSNBC and told host Chris Hayes what it was like after the network made the call.
“We were kind of out there by ourselves, and through that process we became a focus of all of this rage, all of this anger,” he said.
“A lot of people have grown accustomed to being flattered by their news outlets,” he said.
“It was long after any calls were made that I had any idea that this was a huge deal or that people were freaking out or all that stuff,” Stirewalt said.
“I would not understand the magnitude of the anger on the right about this for some time,” he said.
“It was not just a matter that they were unhappy or disagreed with it, it was a matter of real anger and spoke to me about the depth of the problem,” he said.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
When Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden it ended any chance of Donald Trump winning the 2020 presidential election in the eyes of the network and was so controversial that many longtime viewers of Fox News abandoned the network.
It was also so controversial that the man at the Decision Desk who made the call, Chris Stirewalt, was later fired.
But, according to a new book, the decision came from a person much higher at the network than fall guy Stirewalt, and that was the owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, Business Insider reported.
In his new book, “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” author Michael Wolff detailed what he said happened.
Wolff wrote that Murdoch’s son Lachlan, the CEO of Fox Corporation, got a call from the network’s election-data operation shortly after 11 p.m. ET on election night saying it was ready to declare Arizona for Biden.
The book noted that the Murdochs — who spearhead a vast right-wing media empire — had “every reason” to delay calling Arizona at the time, given Fox’s steadfast allegiance to Trump and the fact that no other network had made the call yet.
“Lachlan got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. His father, with signature grunt, assented, adding, ‘F— him,'” in reference to Trump, Wolff said in the book.
But Fox Media has denied the reporting in the book to Business Insider after it published the story.
“This account is completely false,” it said. “Arnon Mishkin who leads the FOX News Decision Desk made the Arizona call on election night and FOX News Media President Jay Wallace was then called in the control room. Any other version of the story is wildly inaccurate.”
It is important to note that Wolff has had issues in the past, with his previous book on the Trump administration being scrutinized by fact checkers and reporters who said that some of the details in the book did not add up.
Wolff said that when the network decided to make the call on Arizona that anchor Bill Hemmer told Trump’s lead social-media strategist, Jason Miller who had a furious response.
“Miller involuntarily rose from his seat. ‘What the f—?’ he said out loud, looking around and seeing the still-merry and untroubled faces in the Map Room,” he said.
“That’s what they’re doing. That’s what they’re going with,” Hemmer reportedly said, according to Wolff’s account.
“Who?” Miller asked.
“The election desk,” Hemmer said, adding that the network’s decision was going to be aired imminently, the book said.
In a statement to Insider, a Fox News spokesperson denied the Hemmer anecdote, saying: “This never happened and is completely untrue.”
The Trump campaign was infuriated with the decision by Fox News, according to the book.
“What the f—? How can they call this?” Trump said, Wolff reported. “We’re winning. And everybody can see we are going to win. Everybody’s calling to say that we’re winning. And then they pull this?”
In January 2021 Stirewalt appeared on MSNBC and told host Chris Hayes what it was like after the network made the call.
“We were kind of out there by ourselves, and through that process we became a focus of all of this rage, all of this anger,” he said.
“A lot of people have grown accustomed to being flattered by their news outlets,” he said.
“It was long after any calls were made that I had any idea that this was a huge deal or that people were freaking out or all that stuff,” Stirewalt said.
“I would not understand the magnitude of the anger on the right about this for some time,” he said.
“It was not just a matter that they were unhappy or disagreed with it, it was a matter of real anger and spoke to me about the depth of the problem,” he said.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
What's going on?
🔺 Ballots tested in Maricopa County are being counted for the third time. Now the Arizona Senate is doing it.
The new recount focuses on the number of ballots and will not count actual votes, unlike the first two tables.
🔺 Trump will attend a pro-election rally on July 24 in Phoenix, Arizona.
🔺 Earlier, Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano initiated a full forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election in several Pennsylvania counties. This news clearly shocked Pennsylvania Democrats.
The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive prohibiting county boards of elections from cooperating with the Senate election audit. Mastriano responded by telling them that he knew the authority of his committee and demanded the legitimacy of the process.
🔺 Arizona State Senator:
"Georgia has proof that some people voted multiple times. Americans don't like cheating."
🔺 The U.S. Department of Defense issued a report warning that the world is approaching nuclear war as Russia and China develop new nuclear missiles, bombers and submarines.
🔺 The Justice Department is creating a database of Americans and related data collected during the January 6 protest outside the Capitol.
🔺 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones calls for an audit of the state: "Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger have failed to run a safe election."
🔺 A recent study
in the United Kingdom showed that only six children out of nearly half a million cases of COVID died from the disease. The other 19 who died were children with pre-existing disease. Despite this, some countries, including the United States, continue to actively insist on childhood vaccination against Covid.
🔺 Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are pushing a plan to regulate social media, specifically allowing censored users to sue major social media technology platforms.
🔺 The last level of the fence erected after the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol was removed.
🔺 14 missiles hit an airbase in western Iraq, where coalition forces are still fighting the remnants of ISIS.
🔺 Leftist doctor on CNN: "Biden should tell Americans, 'If you don't get the shot, you have to sign forms and get mandatory testing twice a week.
🔺 Acting Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph said mercenaries tortured Haitian President Jovenel Moise before he was fatally wounded in an attack on his residence.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
🔺 Ballots tested in Maricopa County are being counted for the third time. Now the Arizona Senate is doing it.
The new recount focuses on the number of ballots and will not count actual votes, unlike the first two tables.
🔺 Trump will attend a pro-election rally on July 24 in Phoenix, Arizona.
🔺 Earlier, Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano initiated a full forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election in several Pennsylvania counties. This news clearly shocked Pennsylvania Democrats.
The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive prohibiting county boards of elections from cooperating with the Senate election audit. Mastriano responded by telling them that he knew the authority of his committee and demanded the legitimacy of the process.
🔺 Arizona State Senator:
"Georgia has proof that some people voted multiple times. Americans don't like cheating."
🔺 The U.S. Department of Defense issued a report warning that the world is approaching nuclear war as Russia and China develop new nuclear missiles, bombers and submarines.
🔺 The Justice Department is creating a database of Americans and related data collected during the January 6 protest outside the Capitol.
🔺 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones calls for an audit of the state: "Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger have failed to run a safe election."
🔺 A recent study
in the United Kingdom showed that only six children out of nearly half a million cases of COVID died from the disease. The other 19 who died were children with pre-existing disease. Despite this, some countries, including the United States, continue to actively insist on childhood vaccination against Covid.
🔺 Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are pushing a plan to regulate social media, specifically allowing censored users to sue major social media technology platforms.
🔺 The last level of the fence erected after the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol was removed.
🔺 14 missiles hit an airbase in western Iraq, where coalition forces are still fighting the remnants of ISIS.
🔺 Leftist doctor on CNN: "Biden should tell Americans, 'If you don't get the shot, you have to sign forms and get mandatory testing twice a week.
🔺 Acting Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph said mercenaries tortured Haitian President Jovenel Moise before he was fatally wounded in an attack on his residence.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
ESPN refuses to show President Trump, but We the People love DJT 🇺🇸
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
President Trump this morning on the rigged election:
“We won this election in a landslide...This was a rigged election and the people aren’t standing for it. So we will go forward and let’s see what happens.”
Fox is all of sudden covering the rigged election? Timing is everything 🇺🇸
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
“We won this election in a landslide...This was a rigged election and the people aren’t standing for it. So we will go forward and let’s see what happens.”
Fox is all of sudden covering the rigged election? Timing is everything 🇺🇸
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
President Trump calls for the 1/6 commission to look into the reason over 1 million people marched to Washington in the first place.
“We had a corrupt election. We had a rigged election. We had a stolen election - and that’s why you had over a million people march to Washington.”
“We had a corrupt election. We had a rigged election. We had a stolen election - and that’s why you had over a million people march to Washington.”
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
President Trump interview with Maria Part 1- The Big Tech Lawsuit
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Part 4- Space Force- Rich Guys love Space- you’ll explain that one day
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Part 5- CFO investigation - Hunter is not a artist- Chris Wallace didn’t let me ask that question!
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Part 6- will you run again -I know my answer- networks ratings so bad they will endorse Trump
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS at CPAC 2021!
Full speech🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Part 4. Final, dancing😁
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Full speech🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Part 4. Final, dancing😁
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
As you all know, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. Similar to other leaders who died within the last year, he opposed the COVID-19 vaccines.
Psaki recently announced the US will be sending COVID-19 vaccines to Haiti.
This doesn't appear suspicious at all.🤔
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Psaki recently announced the US will be sending COVID-19 vaccines to Haiti.
This doesn't appear suspicious at all.🤔
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
What's going on?
🔺 President Trump gave a keynote speech at CPAC in Dallas, saying he was fighting BIG TECH to protect free speech. YouTube blocks his speech.
🔺 "Learn how to identify suspicious behavior" - The FBI continues to encourage Americans to snitch on their families and friends.
🔺 Californians request voter lists as requested by FOIA so they can find and eliminate invalid voters.
🔺 Trump supporter Charlie Kirk revealed Lt. Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashley Babbitt on Jan. 6, in the first TV show.
🔺 Trump suggested in an interview with Maria Bartiromo that Arizona's audit found "horrifying" results and we'll know soon enough.
🔺 For more than a year now, Democrats have been calling for an end to police funding as killings have reached historic highs across the country. Now they are blaming it on Republicans in a new statement from Pelosi.
🔺 "Arrest Trump now" is in the top 5 hashtags of Twitter, popular around the world. This is because the administration of the platform artificially inflates the number of mentions of him.
🔺 Trump easily wins the CPAC 2024 Republican presidential nomination vote with 70% of the vote.
🔺 In downtown Tbilisi, several thousand people protested to demand the resignation of the government after the death of a videographer who was beaten during an anti-LGBT rally on July 5.
🔺 Italy won the European Football Championship by defeating England in the final.
🔺 Pope Francis made his first public appearance since undergoing intestinal surgery a week ago. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of free and affordable health care for everyone.
🔺 UBTECH Robotics of China has unveiled a humanoid home robot. Walker X is able to communicate with people, pick up objects and bypass obstacles.
🔺 The leader of the "Alternative for Germany" party, MP Tino Krupalla said that Germany should think about leaving the European Union and creating a "new European space".
🔺 The spacecraft with Richard Branson returned safely to Earth a few hours after launch.
🔺 Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Cuba over a corrupt and outdated health care system, demanding freedom from the communist dictatorship.
🔺 On Saturday, the finance ministers of the world's 20 largest economies met in Venice and announced that they had agreed to a "more stable and fairer international tax architecture." The announcement came just a week after 130 countries agreed to a global minimum tax proposal that Biden has supported since taking office.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
🔺 President Trump gave a keynote speech at CPAC in Dallas, saying he was fighting BIG TECH to protect free speech. YouTube blocks his speech.
🔺 "Learn how to identify suspicious behavior" - The FBI continues to encourage Americans to snitch on their families and friends.
🔺 Californians request voter lists as requested by FOIA so they can find and eliminate invalid voters.
🔺 Trump supporter Charlie Kirk revealed Lt. Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashley Babbitt on Jan. 6, in the first TV show.
🔺 Trump suggested in an interview with Maria Bartiromo that Arizona's audit found "horrifying" results and we'll know soon enough.
🔺 For more than a year now, Democrats have been calling for an end to police funding as killings have reached historic highs across the country. Now they are blaming it on Republicans in a new statement from Pelosi.
🔺 "Arrest Trump now" is in the top 5 hashtags of Twitter, popular around the world. This is because the administration of the platform artificially inflates the number of mentions of him.
🔺 Trump easily wins the CPAC 2024 Republican presidential nomination vote with 70% of the vote.
🔺 In downtown Tbilisi, several thousand people protested to demand the resignation of the government after the death of a videographer who was beaten during an anti-LGBT rally on July 5.
🔺 Italy won the European Football Championship by defeating England in the final.
🔺 Pope Francis made his first public appearance since undergoing intestinal surgery a week ago. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of free and affordable health care for everyone.
🔺 UBTECH Robotics of China has unveiled a humanoid home robot. Walker X is able to communicate with people, pick up objects and bypass obstacles.
🔺 The leader of the "Alternative for Germany" party, MP Tino Krupalla said that Germany should think about leaving the European Union and creating a "new European space".
🔺 The spacecraft with Richard Branson returned safely to Earth a few hours after launch.
🔺 Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Cuba over a corrupt and outdated health care system, demanding freedom from the communist dictatorship.
🔺 On Saturday, the finance ministers of the world's 20 largest economies met in Venice and announced that they had agreed to a "more stable and fairer international tax architecture." The announcement came just a week after 130 countries agreed to a global minimum tax proposal that Biden has supported since taking office.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
President Trump: “You ready? We had great polls. I had great polls, and that was an important poll... I ‘lost the election’, but I didn’t lose the election. THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED. You don’t have polls like that and lose the election. The election was rigged.”
He just owned Lawrence Jones, Fox News establishment shill. Do better, Fox.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
He just owned Lawrence Jones, Fox News establishment shill. Do better, Fox.
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
President Trump’s full interview on Fox Nation.
DJT did an excellent job explaining the election fraud to the normies.
Timing is everything 🇺🇸
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource
DJT did an excellent job explaining the election fraud to the normies.
Timing is everything 🇺🇸
Subscribe and share ➡️➡️ @TrumpSource