![]() ![]() Murdoch helped Trump and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) defeat candidate Don Blankenship from winning the GOP nomination for West Virginia’s Senate seat in 2018, court records show, with Murdoch writing in an email to other executives, “Sean and Laura dumping on hard might save the day.” Excerpts of Murdoch’s testimony also show he gave Trump advisor Jared Kushner a preview of Biden’s 2020 campaign ads before they were public, which experts have suggested could run afoul of campaign finance laws by counting as an “in-kind” donation to the Trump campaign. ![]() The documents also include other revelations about Fox News and its ties to the right. Murdoch described the January 6 riot in an email as a “wake-up call for Hannity, who has been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers,” and said the network was “very busy pivoting” after January 6 and “want to make Trump a non person.” Tangent
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