Donald Trump Has the Epstein affair strained Trump’s cozy relationship with the Murdoch media empire?

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Has the Epstein affair strained Trump’s cozy relationship with the Murdoch media empire?

While the Wall Street Journal cast a stone against the president, Fox News is more than making up for it

In the wake of new revelations regarding the friendship of Donald Trump and disgraced and deceased billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has both poured gasoline on to the story and come to Trump’s loyal defense. Experts say that, much like the broader Maga movement, the Epstein affair is testing Trump and Murdoch’s mostly chummy relationship.

To think, only months ago, at Jimmy Carter’s funeral, Barack Obama and Donald Trump were laughing together in the pews.

But in Trump’s latest attempt to deny and deflect when faced with controversy, he’s calling for his over trying “to rig the election” against him in 2016. Of course, Fox News, the crown jewel in Murdoch’s wallet of media properties, has followed suit: in one of the days following the fallout from Epstein, mentions of Obama’s name reportedly  that of the convicted pedophile and suspected spy, by a score of 117 to two.

But there is trouble in paradise. Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ)  that Trump allegedly penned a seedy birthday message to Epstein in 2003. The president then did what he does best: filed a libel suit for billions in damages.