Malcom Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia, directed an incendiary speech against Donald Trump and the boss of the TV channel Fox News, Rupert Murdoch.
Sydney – Malcolm Turnbull ruled Australia as Prime Minister from 2015 to 2018. The former journalist recently held a parliamentary hearing as an opportunity to settle accounts with Rupert Murdoch. The powerful media mogul, founder and owner of the ultra-conservative TV channel Fox News, used his media empire in 2016 to help Donald Trump gain power in the United States. The hearing came about after more than half a million Australians signed a petition calling for an investigation into Murdoch’s corporate network.
| Name | Keith Rupert Murdoch |
| Established organizations | Fox News Group, Fox Entertainment, Sky |
| Assets (estimated) | $ 23.1 billion |
| Alter | 90 years (March 11, 1931) |
| place of birth | Melbourne, Australien |
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Turnbull, who has known Murdoch personally for more than 40 years, accuses the billionaire (estimated fortune: 23.1 billion US dollars) of having divided the USA more than Vladimir Putin was possible with his influence on Trump. “What does Vladimir Putin want to achieve with his operations in America? He wants to split America and turn the Americans against each other, ”said Turnbull. This is exactly what the former Australian prime minister is now accusing Rupert Murdoch of: “He divided the USA and undermined trust in political institutions.”
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Former journalist Turnbull blames Rupert Murdoch and Fox News directly for the January 6 riot in Washington DC: “It resulted in a mob of thousands of people, many of them armed, storming the US Capitol.” Turnbull is Murdoch’s influence in Australia “far too big”. What the Fox News boss “achieved” in the USA is, according to the politician of the Australian center-right party, simply “sick”. The relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump reminded him of the “unshakably loyal media in authoritarian countries”.
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He has already seen many extremely wealthy media makers, according to Turnbull. But he has never seen a politician who appeared to an owner of a media empire “with as much respect” as Trump did to Rupert Murdoch: “Murdoch’s media in the USA had a symbiotic relationship with Trump.” Turnbull threw Murdoch and his Journalists also suggest doing “essentially propaganda work for terrorists” by inciting hatred of minorities. As Prime Minister he himself did everything to fill in trenches, but was always “drowned out” by Murdoch’s media.
Rupert Murdoch stirs up “violence against minorities” according to Malcom Trunbull
At the hearing, Turnbull concluded that Murdochs News Corp. like a political party that is not accountable to anyone. This network consistently denies the problem of climate change and stirs up violence against minorities, primarily against Muslims. In a video broadcast to the Australian Senate, Turnbull called on MPs to face the realities: “If you don’t believe that all of this is a threat to American democracy and therefore the strength and stability of ours undermines your most important allies, then make a fool of yourself. “(Mirko Schmid)
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