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Last Update: March 03, 2023, 18:12 IST
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Donald Trump has not appeared on Fox News since September. Other Republican presidential candidates such as Nikki Haley and V Ramaswamy have appeared several times (Image: AP Photo)
After Fox News faces lawsuit from voting machine company Dominion, the channel has kept the former president at arm’s length
Fox News, the conservative-leaning US television news channel, may have imposed a “softer ban” on former US President Donald Trump, news agency Guardian cited. traffic light and media watchdog media matters,
conclusion by traffic light Let Fox News, Trump’s favorite cable-news channel, try to keep him at arm’s length and may impose a soft ban or a “silent ban.”
He pointed out that Trump last appeared on Fox News during anchor Sean Hannity’s show and also that Republican candidates such as Nikki Haley and the lesser-known Vivek Ramaswamy have shown more time than him in recent days.
media matters reported that former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley made appearances in the seven weeks following her presidential bid announcement last month. Ron DeSantis, widely hailed as a competitor to Donald Trump within the GOP, also appeared on a few occasions.
“Everybody knows it’s a ‘soft ban’ or a ‘silent ban’. It’s definitely — however you want to say, soft ban, soft ban, whatever it is — Murdoch about Trump at this particular moment That’s a sign of sentiment,” a person in the former president’s inner circle told Semaphore.
The so-called ban also comes as the news channel is fighting a $1.6 billion lawsuit from voting machine company Dominion. Dominion claims that Fox News, with approval from its parent company Fox Corp., spread conspiracy theories about rigging the election and accused Dominion of falsely claiming that machines voted Donald Trump over Joe Biden. Lost the election by flipping.
Excerpts from a statement made earlier this year by Chairman and Fox Corp boss Rupert Murdoch revealed he knew some Fox News hosts were endorsing lies about the election being stolen from the former president. There were, but he chose not to stop them. Experts told the Guardian that the admission puts Murdoch’s empire in considerable legal and financial jeopardy.
Trump’s rise to the White House in 2015-16 was aided by Fox News, according to some experts who regularly feature the former president on the news channel. The former president had also expressed his dismay towards the news channel in recent weeks.
Trump wrote in his social media account: “If Rupert Murdoch honestly believes that the 2020 presidential election, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, was not rigged and stolen, then he and his group of mages Globalist Rhinos hates [Republicans in name only] Should get out of the news business as soon as possible”.
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