Rupert Murdoch: “I made you, and I will UNMAKE you!”

I may end up actually liking Rupert if he ends up destroying him. He needs to get the NY Post under control.

Okay R1, but they get to keep their legendary snarky headlines.

That legion of Trump-defending bots under the tweet.... it's gotten so much worse since I was last there, dear lord.

Paywall bypass

The article seems to show that Bondi is the one who is obstructing things.

Unmake already!

I'm rooting for Murdoch. Not that he needs it, he seems to be a tough old bird.

So, maybe I’m just a dummy, but hasn’t this Epstein stuff (for the most part) been out in the public for a long.

We’ve all seen the pics.

So, is Elon, Rupert etc going after Rump now? Cause we know republicans in congress roll over for everything he wants

I don’t think the drip drip drip release will stop. I imagine some of this is Elon’s fault. He had access to far more than has been reported. Whether he, or unhappy folks at the DOJ and FBI or somebody else is the Journal’s source, it would appear they have more to roll out. Last week it was the enigmatic, illustrated birthday greetings. Today we have stories about Epstein attending Trump’s wedding and how Bondi told him he was in the files before he lied and said she had not. They’re going to keep dripping and he’ll keep lying. How it works out is anyone’s guess. It took two years to bring Nixon down.

But also, as they’ve said, Trump and Epstein’s victims are reminded of what he did to traumatize them when others come forward and in some cases, the renewed publicity gives them the confidence to go public. That’s another bit of gasoline on the fire. Keep throwing gasoline on a fire and somebody’s going to get burned. Let’s hope it’s the guilty fucks, because too many times in the past they’ve walked.

Will Rupert out cunt The Donald?

Is Rupert, the king of infotainment, going to bat for real journalism?

The irony.

Is Rupert Murdoch…

…serving cunt?

The latest news really puts that idiot James Comer on the spot. He can subpoena Maxwell all he wants, but all he's going to get are a bunch of "I don't recalls." Maxwell doesn't know how much the WSJ knows, and any coverup she tries to throw Trump's way, is likely to be met by the WSJ with evidence to the contrary.

Great post r9

President Pedo cannot make all this go away! 🍿

I don't understand why anyone would assume anything incriminating about Trump in that type of list.

I'm happy to see the fat cunt squirm, but I wonder how this will lead to his downfall in any way.

His own cronies control Congress. Even if he murdered someone on live TV, they'd never impeach him.

They will NEVER turn on him. Never. The voters are the only ones who can do that now, and the next election is more than a year away.

I only need 5 House members to turn. But even that sounds unlikely. It may work if the voters in such five districts turn. But again - not likely. And I certainly don't want J.D. Vance to take his place. At this point I settle on "messy situation".

I love how the latest WSJ bombshell exploded shortly after the news came out about Comer's subpoena ROFL. Now that subpoena is totally nullified ROFL.

[quote] I'm happy to see the fat cunt squirm, but I wonder how this will lead to his downfall in any way.

The downfall is coming. With all these revelations, Trump will be required to leave office in three and a half years. Mark my words.

I'm sure nothing formal will ever take him down. No trial. No conviction. No sentencing. No impeachment. All those have happened and none of them have had the slightest effect.

But there is something right now that is driving him absolutely batshit crazy, so much that he's lashing out like a crazy bitch at his own supporters. Something is making him very, very nervous and it seems to be literally driving him crazy. Not sure how it ends, maybe in an insane asylum. But I do agree it will not be because any group of people in Washington starts acting like a real government and going through the proper steps to get rid of a clearly demented president. I suspect it will all be more chaotic than that.

[quote] I'm sure nothing formal will ever take him down.

The inauguration of his replacement on January 20th, 2029 will be kind of formal.

If it happens. Hopefully he will croak before then. 🤞

Yup, nothing to see here. All is well in the land of the free and the home of the brave. All is love, light, and laughter until Dear Leader is replaced by another as wise and wonderful as himself. No doubt.

Repug Sen. Nancy Mace will join Democrats to vote for subpoenaing all of the Epstein material.

I would bet money that Epstein is the way Felonious Fatty met Melanoma.

I believe that's been established, r25.

Interesting that Trump has alienated to powerful allies (Musk and Murdoch) in a short space of time. I wonder if this is Vance's influence? Maybe Vance is trying to sabotage Trump by encouraging him to burn bridges.

R24, she's batshit but she's a rape survivor so this may have been her tipping point with Trump.

I read an article last night about Epstein's brother calling Trump a liar (you don't say) when he denied ever visiting Epstein's office. The brother said he was there many times. It doesn't sound damning on its own but the amount of lies he's been caught in over the past few weeks are really beginning to add up.

Video Below: Watch his ridiculously OTT incredulous reaction when asked about Epstein. He is usually a seamless liar, but this soap level reaction shows how rattled he is.

How is this bad for Biden?

[quote]but she's a rape survivor

Or so she says, r28.

Yes, R30, but if she believes it, (I don't know if it's true or not) Trump is now viewed as the enemy rapist of young women/girls.

Please-they’ll be sucking each other’s ass later today…

Trump was convicted of sexual assault last year. Mace didn't give a shit about that. She doesn't give a shit about him being in the Epstein files either. She's hedging her bets.

Criminals protecting criminals=Trump Admin.

"The article seems to show that Bondi is the one who is obstructing things."

As someone who finished near or at the bottom of her bargain basement, Tier III law school, it's obvious Trump didn't hire her for her outstanding jurisprudence skill set but her ability to be manipulated and follow orders.

Good, R33. Maybe it's a sign his strength among the party is weakening.

Pam Bond is Trump's "hey girl."

I don’t know. Hitler didn’t have AI on his side and dump has it all.

Can’t keep up with the crazy.

“Whom Murdoch hath created, let no one turn asunder.”

Today at Tulski's "press conference". Kaitlan Collins from CNN asked her if she fabricated the Obama shit to get back in good graces with Trump. Yup she actually asked that. My sense is that the press and perhaps some repugs FINALLY smell some blood in the water.

Good r41. Every Trump Cult official needs to be asked that kind of thing constantly. Are you lying to us about this in order to suck up to the Mad King?

I had to read that twice to make sure I wasn’t seeing things, R41!

Republicans Brian Jack of Georgia and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania joined Nancy Mace on the Oversight subcommittee in voting to subpoena the Epstein files. Any Repug who voted no has some explaining to do.

It won't happen. These types hardly ever mean any threats they make. It's all manipulation to get what they want, and then they walk out arm in arm while the rest of us look on feeling stupid for having placed our hopes on them.

Shit people in this country. That incompetent Biden should have declared martial law and called out the military and handed the reins to Kamala. Anything’s better than this.The military might have had a chance over the Trump militia but now it’s too late. I hate Biden as much as dump.

I agree r45.

But rump really fucked with Tesla’s stock/value. The whole brand (for the most part) is in the toilet

I can remember, not that long ago, Tesla was considered very cool and was thought highly of

Will Trump try to claim executive privilege over the Epstein files now?

Et tu Fox News?

^ wow Fox News publishing an oped written by a Democrat!

I think that fox notice is cute but a fake-Ned Price gay/dem? forget it.

Do your stuff, Rupert. FAST.

It's real.

Please, God. It’s me, the atheist. If you release everything to the public, I will believe in you again.

Maybe the dam has broken. I'm not getting my hopes up too much-Dump always seems to wriggle out of trouble.

What we know.

[quote]Maybe the dam has broken.

Maybe that could replace "the walls are closing in." The old phrase has gotten long in the tooth.

Maybe the dam has broken? MAYBE CRIMINAL TRUMP CANT POSSIBLY WIN THE 2024 ELECTION. It’s over and we are at the mercy of Nazis.

R51 he was deputy to US ambassador to the UN, and aide to a Secretary of State Blinken, State Department pres

May they rip each other to bloody shreds

Where is Daddy's little pumpkin Ivanka? Why hasn't she weighed in?

His cult won’t care. They already don’t care that he’s a rapist and a repeat felon.

Hell, there are women on Twitter and Facebook right now saying they’d let Trump rape THEIR kids if it helped him be a better president.

I believe that the Epstein Human Trafficking/Kiddie Rape corporation was less concerned about Kiddie Rape than blackmailing the visitors to Rape Island and the Rape Mansion.

I think Trump is protecting MAGA Evangelicals, whom he blackmailed, to get elected.

Fuckin’ sue me. Anything to keep Lachlan from inheriting the money.

Rupert is evil, but he’s less of a Nazi than Donald.

r65, but he is more of a Capitalist.

Trump has been used and used up, and it is time for him to go.

Rupert has never liked Trump.

[quote]Maybe the dam has broken.

Even if it has, how could this possibly affect Trump? He's still completely untouchable for the next three and a half years.

[quote]He is usually a seamless liar, but this soap level reaction shows how rattled he is.

At R28 Bondi attempts to 'answer' the question efficiently. But her very mention of child porn in the context of Epstein in the presence of the defensive President to her left only increases serious concern about Trump's friendship link. Trump's 'disbelief' about this still being a talking point merely fills space till the next phase of revelation. He'll soon need to believe that the whole world is talking about this.

They’re BOTH evil. I’m just happy they’ll be fighting each other.

The version of All The President's Men featuring Trump and the WSJ will need an NC 17 rating.

[quote]His own cronies control Congress. Even if he murdered someone on live TV, they'd never impeach him. They will NEVER turn on him. Never.

They will never turn on him because he has dirt on all of them.

But what if Murdoch has, or finds, the same dirt and offers to spill it? Who would you back if you were in Congress, the guy who raves insanely or the guy with daily headlines at his disposal?

Together Forever.

[quote] Who would you back if you were in Congress, the guy who raves insanely or the guy with daily headlines at his disposal?

If I were a politician, I would back the guy who raves insanely, especially when the voters in question don’t believe the news media anymore. Insane comments trump staid headlines.

I have noticed the press headlines have shifted. It's no longer "GOP cuts Social Security, how this is bad for Democrats" but "Gop House under Speaker Johnson recesses early to prevent vote on releasing Epstein files". I do think cracks are in the dam, however slight they may be. And there's blood in the water where Trump is concerned. Will this eventually bring him down? We'll see, but he's never faced this much opposition from all sides.

And yes, we may eventually wind up with fascist makeup boy Jaydine but we have to fight the dragon that's currently in front of us.

R75 I think you are right.

I'm not getting my hopes up yet, but it would be ironic after all of the things he's done that it's the Epstein issue that's ultimately his undoing

Especially since Trump brought it entirely on himself, r77! I never understood why he campaigned on making the Epstein files public when it was something he could have done during his first term in office, and I also didn't understand why he was never called on that.

If Murdoch is done with Dump (and the very fact WSJ is reporting on it, indicates he is , then Dump is done like a Turkey (butterball) on Thanksgiving.. The plan seems to be use the WSJ platform, the only CREDIBLE media outlet Murdoch owns to get the reporting confirming what everyone already knows out there and force Dumps removal. Rumor is the WSJ is sitting on a series of revelations yet to be dolled out. If Murdoch wasn't gunning for Dump, he would have killed the sty ory. Instead it looks like he's personally driving it.

Murdoch has known about Dump's "proclivities" for years, this isn't "news" its a targeted take down. For whatever reason, Murdoch has determined that Dump has outlived his usefulness and presents a threat to his empire. I think they want Vance in there to push through the rest of their agenda but that will be tough.

Dump has never been in the position of not being able to rally his base or his friendly media to his side when a crisis hits. He is in that uncharted territory now. I expect him to either have or fake a major health event soon perhaps after having secured a promise of a pardon from Vance. That won't happen if Murdoch doesn't want it to happen.

May you live in interesting times, R79. I could absolutely see the, uh, trumped up (sorry) health issue happening.

Time will tell. Trump has had the luck of the devil his entire damn life. I give him 85% chance of wriggling his fat ass out of this one, too. I'd welcome being wrong.

It’s only the WSJ version of Murdoch. The Fox News version of Murdoch is not giving this any play at all.

Both sides against the middle….and all that.

[quote]For whatever reason, Murdoch has determined that Dump has outlived his usefulness and presents a threat to his empire.

It'd be fascinating to know the tipping point which made Murdoch press this button. Famously Murdoch responded to Trump's first triumphal call to him as President by later calling the new POTUS 'a fucking idiot.' Seems Trump's no longer even a useful idiot. Maybe new repulsive evidence came Murdoch's way which urged him to play the white knight pro bono publico this late in his dubious career.

WSJ readers are mostly Never Trump Republicans who are educated professionals with disposal income. They either held their nose to vote for him or didn't vote at all.

Completely different from Fox News watchers and/or New York Post readers.

^^^Neither Fox nor the Post has mentioned it by the way. Fox is all about Obama's treasonous actions etc. So not sure if Rupert is all in on this

Hanging on to DL hope.

R82 the difference is that the WSJ news room, like at any good paper, is independent and gets no “thumb on the scale” from the publisher. The Journal’s op-ed page is under no obligation to be fair. Fox News observes no bright line in the news room.

R86 The WSJ opinion pages and podcast are very fair about Trump, meaning they hold back no punches when they disagree with him or if they think the Democrats are acting crazy.

Their op-ed page is decidedly more conservative than other, similar, papers.

Did he say that in the article? Sounds so silly.

Of course he didn’t. Murdoch had nothing to do with the written article.

r81, that is Murdoch's ace in the hole.

If he can take down Trump with only the WSJ, so be it. But once Murdoch sics the NY Post and Fox on Trump, he is dead.

Picture this: Murdoch and Musk (and maybe others) conspiring against the orange shithead. Sitting in some penthouse or a mega-yacht drumming up a plan to bring him down

I always think of “Secession”. Logan Roy and his cohorts and what the accomplishment behind the scenes

Murdoch didn’t make Trump though, in fact, he put all his money up against him.

The WSJ still has to have a veneer of politeness and calm and real journalism.

If Rupert really wants to get mean, unleash the New York Post. Let some bitches get freaky with it in the kind of paper that Trump's supporters actually read, or at least read the headlines as they walk by the news stand.

Trump pregnant with alien space babies.

Will not abort.

Gods plan!