Trump Roasted by Murdoch Media Over Lackluster GOP Midterms Showing
- New York Post and Wall Street Journal editorialize against him
- Trump-endorsed Republicans lost key US Senate and House races
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Rupert Murdoch’s news properties, in an unusually coordinated attack, turned on former President Donald Trump and blamed him for unexpected losses by Republicans in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
A Wall Street Journal editorial Thursday dubbed him “the Republican Party’s biggest loser,” an insult that Trump routinely deploys against his enemies. Meanwhile, the New York Post tabloid ran a caricature of the former president as nursery character Humpty Dumpty with a headline that said, “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall -- can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?”