Former President Donald Trump says he will ask media mogul Rupert Murdoch to stop Fox News from airing negative political ads against him ahead of the election.
“I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch,” Trump said during a Friday morning appearance on “Fox and Friends.”
“I’m going to tell him something very simple, because I can’t talk to anybody else about it: Don’t put on negative commercials for 21 days,” the Republican presidential nominee said.
Murdoch, 93, stepped down as chairman of Fox News’ parent company, Fox Corp., last year, ending a seven-decade career that spawned a media empire. His son, Lachlan, now serves as the company’s chairman and CEO.
Trump said he wasn’t sure the older Murdoch would be “thrilled” with his disclosing their meeting on air, but said that he was planning to say, “‘Rupert, please do it this way.’ And then we’re going to have a victory, because I think everybody wants to have a victory.” […]
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