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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Reports: An Enraged Trump Called Rupert Murdoch

Donald Trump rang Rupert Murdoch in a fury on Tuesday night after Fox News became the first to call Arizona for his rival Joe Biden, according to The Daily Mail.

Trump, who on the morning of the election called into Fox and Friends and complained bitterly at how unfair they had been to him during his presidency, was enraged by Tuesday night's call.

A source told Vanity Fair that Trump phoned Murdoch, who owns Fox 'to scream about the call and demand a retraction.'

The 89-year-old media mogul refused to order his staff to retract the Arizona call.

Within the network, the decision to announce the Arizona result was greeted with anger, the magazine reported.

'We called it long before MSNBC!' one outraged staffer on the opinion side told the magazine. 

'We were so worried about being seen as pro-Trump that we bent over backwards.'

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump adviser, accused Fox of 'voter suppression', acting to deliberately discourage Trump supporters from bothering to vote.

'Fox News committed news malpractice and voter suppression last night,' he told Vanity Fair. 

'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.' 

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