Former President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Fox News on Monday, accusing the network of downplaying his popularity with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
“FoxNews is promoting Ron DeSanctus so hard and so much that there isn’t much time left for Real News,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The New Fox Poll, which has always been intentionally awful to me, has ‘TRUMP Crushing DeSanctimonious,’ but it barely shows.”
“Isn’t there a big, beautiful network that wants to do good and, moreover, make a fortune? fake news!” He added.
Trump was referring to a Fox News poll released Sunday that showed him ahead of DeSantis by 15 points in a hypothetical 2024 presidential runoff. The former president apparently believes the network didn’t allow enough airtime for the poll, which was cited per show at least twice, according to Forbes.
Trump has repeatedly attacked Fox News in recent months. While many of the network’s hosts continue to support it, some have become considerably less sympathetic in the wake of the midterm elections. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the network, has reportedly tried to distance his media empire from Trump and is instead reaching out to DeSantis, Trump’s potential rival for the 2024 Republican nomination.
And, according to court documents released Monday, Murdoch admitted under oath during a deposition for Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against the network last month that several Fox News anchors supported conspiracy theories that the 2020 election would be rigged against Trump.
Trump recently called Fox News a “RINO Network” (Republican in Name Only) after court documents in that case revealed that celebrity hosts and executives sent text messages saying that Trump’s 2020 election fraud had “re ”, “lonely” and “incredibly crazy mind” because I give them public credence.
Fox News released a statement Monday calling the Dominion lawsuit “an extreme and unsupported approach to defamation law.”
DeSantis hasn’t announced a run for president in 2024, but he should. Fox News’ hypothetical showdown showed Trump well ahead of DeSantis, who in turn was more than 20 points ahead of Nikki Haley, the only Republican besides Trump to throw her hat in the ring so far.
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