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Posted: 2022-06-23T22:13:39Z | Updated: 2022-06-23T22:13:39Z

Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is attacking Rupert Murdoch and his media empire for tossing aside Donald Trump in favor of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis .

Fox News , Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Times of London, The Sun etc etc etc all lockstep against Trump, Bannon wrote Wednesday on the right-wing Gettr social media platform . He also attacked the Murdoch family as Australians via England not American who have never sacrificed anything for this Country. Murdoch became a U.S. citizen in 1984.

Murdoch has zero feel for America or Americans, Bannon added.

Bannon was responding to an article in Vanity Fair on Wednesday declaring that DeSantis fever is spreading across Murdochs media empire.

Hes right. The Murdochs are dumping Trump for Desantis. All the signs are there. pic.twitter.com/p4aFTUTcTU

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Hes right. The Murdochs are dumping Trump for Desantis. All the signs are there. pic.twitter.com/p4aFTUTcTU

Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 23, 2022

Murdoch-controlled media outlets have recently launched sharp attacks on Trump, including surprisingly scathing editorials earlier this month in the New York Post and Wall Street Journal.

Trump betrayed his supporters by conning them on Jan. 6, and he is still doing it, the Journal editorial stated June 10.

The King Lear of Mar-a-Lago who cannot accept defeat has become a prisoner of his own ego , the Post said the same day. He wont stop insisting that 2020 was stolen even though hes offered no proof that its true .

Longtime Murdoch employee Piers Morgan wrote in an opinion piece Monday in the Post that by almost any political metric you choose, this guys [DeSantis] a far better option for leading the Republicans into the 2024 election than Donald Trump.

The British television personality called Trump an aging, raging gorilla whos become a whiny, democracy-defying bore. The headline flatly declared: Its Time to Dump The Donald.

Vanity Fair noted Morgan in essence held up a grenade, pulled out a pin, and lobbed it in the direction of Mar-a-Lago. More important, the opinion article underscored the message of Murdochs media: Dump Trump, the magazine added.

Morgan predicted that the mutual admiration society of DeSantis and Trump was about to fall apart big-time.

Morgan added: if theres one thing Trump cant stomach more than people who dont buy into his rigged election bullst, its people who might threaten his chances of returning to the White House in 2024.

The chill is already obvious. DeSantis has opted not to ask Trump for an endorsement for his gubernatorial reelection bid .

Trump posted a Zogby poll (which rated a B- rating for predictability last year) on Truth Social on Wednesday that showed him leading with 54% of the expected vote to DeSantis 12% in an imagined presidential primary race involving several candidates. Fox News reported Wednesday that a New Hampshire poll showed DeSantis with a razor-thin lead over Trump in that state .

Though Fox News skipped airing the first of the televised hearings by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the network has aired the rest to date.

Following the hearing Tuesday, Fox anchor Martha MacCallum called out the stunning absence of proof to support Trumps claims that the 2020 election had been rigged against him.

One source told Vanity Fair: Rupert Murdoch is a pragmatic guy. He knows better than anybody how to read political tea leaves.

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