KOMMONSENTSJANE – Gen. Flynn Caught One of Most Important Details of Newly Found FBI Burn Bags – Detail Few People Are Talking About…

Posted on August 2, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

08/03/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/patel-fires-back-at-media-critics-after-uncovering-secret-fbi-burn-bags-with-classified-documents/ar-AA1JNtkr?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=acf0a498825f487a8a81e4d0099fc093&ei=21

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Newly revealed evidence on Trump-Russia hoax could be more ‘explosive’ than anything before seen, says Hannity

FBI Director Kash Patel called out the left-wing media Saturday for labeling him a liar over his discovery of a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump-Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau.

Sources previously told Fox News Digital the “burn bag” system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.7 Wood Accuracy. 7 Iron Swing.

Sources also said multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents. One document FBI officials found in a burn bag, sources said, was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.

Patel addressed the burn bags on X, reminding people of what he proved in 2017 and 2018.

SOROS’ ALLEGED TIES TO RUSSIAGATE EXPOSED IN DECLASSIFIED ANNEX OF DURHAM REPORT

“In 2017/18, I proved the Steele Dossier was fictitious intelligence, weaponized by corrupt FBI officials to deceive a federal judge and unlawfully spy on then presidential candidate Trump’s campaign – all paid for by his opponent,” the FBI director said. “The media called me a liar.

“Now I’m the FBI Director: We just uncovered burn bags/room filled with Russia Gate files, including the Durham annex, and declassified them,” Patel continued. “Once again, I released the prior FBI’s own documents and exposed the truth. The same media is calling me a liar again. Maybe this FBI will release more docs directly, from FBI HQ…so we can see who is lying – wouldn’t want to deprive the fake news of more bogus Pulitzers.”

The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman. 

PATEL FOUND THOUSANDS OF SENSITIVE TRUMP–RUSSIA PROBE DOCS INSIDE ‘BURN BAGS’ IN SECRET ROOM AT FBIDirector Kash Patel speaks with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum before a bill signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 19. Getty Images

Director Kash Patel speaks with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum before a bill signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 19. Getty Images© Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

The declassified annex will be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who ultimately will release the document to the public.

Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he found a room full of documents and computer hard drives “that no one had ever seen or heard of.”75% off installation for LeafFilter

“Just think about this,” Patel told Rogan. “Me, as director of the FBI, the former ‘Russiagate guy,’ when I first got to the bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. Locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.'”

Patel and his staff have been working through the documents, some of which are related to sensitive investigations, including the FBI’s original Trump–Russia probe, known inside the bureau as Crossfire Hurricane. 

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has requested information related to former special counsel John Durham’s probe. Getty Images© Getty Images

It is unclear what the latest documents cover specifically, but sources told Fox News Digital that the most recent discovery was pursuant to an investigative request from Grassley.

Patel has turned the documents over to Grassley. 

Grassley has been requesting information related to Durham’s probe. Durham was appointed after then-special counsel Robert Mueller completed his years-long investigation into the origins of the Trump–Russia probe — including intelligence community m=alfeasance during and in the aftermath of the 2016 election.

Sources told Fox News Digital that Grassley’s team is now reviewing the underlying information as part of its investigative work.

As for the other records, Patel’s staff is working to turn them over to Congress pursuant to investigative requests by committees of jurisdiction.

Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Original article source: Patel fires back at media critics after uncovering secret FBI ‘burn bags’ with classified documents

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08/02/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/can-people-read-kash-patel-s-clinton-scandal-evidence-scrutinized-refuted/ar-AA1JKoeI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=09fd20c1789041f99a5210d6684c2a08&ei=17

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Kash Patel

Kash Patel

President Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel reported on Thursday that his agency uncovered an annex, “along with thousands of other documents, buried in a back room at the FBI” which “revealed a highly classified piece of the Durham report: evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax.”

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We uncovered this annex, along with thousands of other documents, buried in a back room at the FBI. It revealed a highly classified piece of the Durham report: evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax. We worked Show more

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This is the smoking gun evidence inside Durham annex. If it is authenticated by further investigation it means liberal mega donor George Soros’ team knew the whole Clinton plan for Russiagate hoax four days before FBI opened up probe. And so did Obama, Brennan, and Comey.

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Must be something hot in those bags – Google is trying to interfere..

This should be interesting! If it ain’t “chicken it’s feathers?”

08/02/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gen-flynn-caught-one-of-most-important-details-of-newly-found-fbi-burn-bags-detail-few-people-are-talking-about/ar-AA1JKrtJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=df836901044b4f3ca7fd904578ef1aec&ei=139

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Gen. Flynn Caught One of Most Important Details of Newly Found FBI Burn Bags - Detail Few People Are Talking About

Gen. Flynn Caught One of Most Important Details of Newly Found FBI Burn Bags – Detail Few People Are Talking About© Andrew Harnik / Getty Images; MF3d / Getty Images

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former Director of National Intelligence, called on the FBI to check recently discovered burn bags filled with classified documents related to Russiagate for fingerprints.

There is no better agency in the U.S. to do so, since it manages the largest fingerprint database.

“ALL OF THESE BURN BAG DOCUMENTS WILL HAVE FINGERPRINTS ON THESE DOCUMENTS,” Flynn posted on social media on Thursday.

“IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRYING TO DESTROY THIS EVIDENCE, YOU NEED TO COME FORWARD NOW,” he continued.

“@FBIDirectorKash & @FBIDD

Bongino you may want to consider a very short window for amnesty for those who come forward to tell the truth,” Flynn concluded.

Fox News reported Thursday that the burn bags filled with classified documents were in a previously unknown sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, at FBI headquarters.

A classified annex to a report on Russiagate written by former special counsel John Durham was among those documents. The annex included the intelligence reviewed by Durham.

“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting [President Donald] Trump to Russia,” Fox quoted a source as saying.

“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away,” the source said, referring to former CIA chief John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey.

Crossfire Hurricane was the investigation the FBI launched in July 2016 to determine whether the Donald Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to impact the outcome of the presidential election.

In June of this year, Patel told podcast host Joe Rogan about finding a room full of documents and computer equipment “that no one had ever seen or heard of.”

“Just think about this,” Patel recounted. “Me, as director of the FBI, the former ‘Russiagate guy,’ when I first got to the bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. Locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.’”

Patel played a pivotal role, while serving as senior counsel on the House Select Committee on Intelligence under then-Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, of uncovering that the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign had funded the Steele Dossier. The FBI used that document to obtain warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Trump’s campaign.

By his own admission in 2019, Comey signed at least “two or three” of the FISA warrant applications.

Patel’s instincts told him, based on his time as a federal prosecutor before working for Nunes, that the FBI’s FISA warrant application (which relied heavily on the dossier) did not pass muster.

“Having done FISAs myself, I was like, ‘This might be one of the worst documents I’ve ever seen,’” Patel said in the 2020 documentary film “The Plot Against the President.”

Patel told Nunes the best way to get to the bottom of it was to follow the money regarding the creation of the Steele Dossier by subpoenaing bank records. Nunes approved the move, which led to Patel discovering the DNC and Clinton campaign were behind it.

Flynn is right. The burn-bag documents should be fingerprinted to find out exactly who at the FBI was involved in Russiagate.

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KOMMONSENTSJANE – Mr. President – Don’t Let Them Steal Our Social Security – Again.

Posted on July 31, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

07/31/2025

Reblogged from Facebook.

We all worked hard for many years (42 years/4years for two employers) for our Social Security. Just think if we were given that money to re-invest at a rate in the business world and not the government what we could bring home?

People should have a choice on how to manage this money on our own and not through the government when we retire or the government could improve their services to the people in this regard.

Annette Zapalac Stolleis

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It is my money. I earned it!

A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.

And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it’s now going broke.

BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today’s seniors “vultures” in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!

The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.

THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!

F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It’s free money for the government to spend under this guise.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment ?

I’ll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.

Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.”

This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money , paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too ! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that’s close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.

If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you’d have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.

This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you’d receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you’re 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).

They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot”(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them … and they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. (Isn’t it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)

But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!

Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t mean that our investments were for charity!

Let’s take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is:

Our Earned Retirement Income .

90% of people won’t forward this.

Annette is my niece.

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KOMMONSENTSJANE – Polling Numbers

Posted on July 30, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

07/30/2025

https://www.windstream.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-its_a_year_of_rapid_change_except_when_it_comes_to-ap

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After fighting the fight with the left – we knew it wasn’t going to be easy to try to put the pieces back together. Our country has suffered for 12 years under the Democrats and now the pieces are coming together – even after pushing and pulling against the factions. It is not always that you can “move people with kindness,” as we all know,” when you have to use force – that isn’t easy either. Sometime you have to move them anyway, especially when they don’t want to react. Therefore, the actions are not pretty; but, neither are the actions of the moving party.

Citizens have to be patient when action is required. For those who are not happy with the tactics – might want to volunteer to participate in the action and see how you would react to difficult situations. It is easy to be a bystander; but, it not easy to be the leader and perform the job – which in most cases it is life-threatening.

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It’s a year of rapid change, except when it comes to Trump’s approval numbers, AP-NORC polling finds.

The Associated Press

By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX and JONATHAN J. COOPER – Associated PressJul 27, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks with supporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Washington. The President is traveling to Scotland.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Hildenbrand has noticed prices continue to rise this year, even with President Donald Trump in the White House. He doesn’t blame Trump, his choice for president in 2024, but says Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats who control his home state, California, are at fault.

“You can’t compare California with the rest of the country,” said Hildenbrand, who is 76 and lives in San Diego. “I don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the country. It seems like prices are dropping. Things are getting better, but I don’t necessarily see it here.”

Voters like Hildenbrand, whose support of the Republican president is unwavering, help explain Trump’s polling numbers and how they have differed from other presidents’ polling trajectory in significant ways. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in March found that 42% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s job performance. That is a lower rating than those of other recent presidents at the beginning of their second terms, including Democrat Barack Obama and Republican George W. Bush.

The most recent AP-NORC poll, from July, puts Trump at 40% approval. While that is not a meaningful change from March, there is some evidence that Trump’s support may be softening, at least on the margins. The July poll showed a slight decrease in approval of his handling of immigration since earlier in the year. Some other pollsters, such as Gallup, show a downward slide in overall approval since slightly earlier in his term, in January.

But even those shifts are within a relatively narrow range, which is typical for Trump. The new AP-NORC polling tracker shows that Trump’s favorability rating has remained largely steady since the end of his first term, with between 33% and 43% of U.S. adults saying they viewed him favorably across more than five years.

Those long-term trends underscore that Trump has many steadfast opponents. But loyal supporters also help explain why views of the president are hard to change even as he pursues policies that most Americans do not support, using an approach that many find abrasive.Persistently low approval of Trump’s job performance

Trump has not had a traditional honeymoon period in his second term. He did not in his first, either.

An AP-NORC poll conducted in March 2017, two months into his first term, showed that 42% of Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” approved of his performance. That is largely where his approval rating stayed over the course of the next four years.

The recent slippage on immigration is particularly significant because that issue was a major strength for Trump in the 2024 election. Earlier in his second term, it was also one of the few areas where he was outperforming his overall approval. In March, about half of U.S. adults approved of his handling of immigration. But the July AP-NORC poll found his approval on immigration at 43%, in line with his overall approval rating.

Other recent polls show growing discontent with Trump’s approach on immigration. A CNN/SSRS poll found that 55% of U.S. adults say the president has gone too far when it comes to deporting immigrants who are living in the United States illegally, an increase of 10 percentage points since February.

“I understand wanting to get rid of illegal immigrants, but the way that’s being done is very aggressive,” said Donovan Baldwin, 18, of Asheboro, North Carolina, who did not vote in the 2024 election. “And that’s why people are protesting because it comes off as aggression. It’s not right.”

Ratings of Trump’s handling of the economy, which were more positive during his first term, have been persistently negative in his second term. The July poll found that few Americans think Trump’s policies have benefited them so far.

Even if he is not a fan of everything Trump has done so far, Brian Nichols, 58, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Nichols, who voted for Trump in 2024, likes what he is seeing from the president overall, though he has his concerns both on style and substance, particularly Trump’s social media presence and his on-again, off-again tariffs. Nichols also does not like the push to eliminate federal agencies such as the Education Department.

Despite his occasional disagreements with Trump, though, Nichols said he wants to give the president space to do his job, and he trusts the House and Senate, now run by Republicans, to act as a safeguard.

“We put him into office for a reason, and we should be trusting that he’s doing the job for the best of America,” Nichols said.Overall views of Trump have been fairly steady since 2019

Trump has spent the past six months pushing far-reaching and often unpopular policies. Earlier this year, Americans were bracing themselves for higher prices as a result of his approach to tariffs. The July poll found that most people think Trump’s tax and spending bill will benefit the wealthy, while few think it will pay dividends for the middle class or people like them.

Discomfort with individual policies may not translate into wholesale changes in views of Trump, though. Those have largely been constant through years of turmoil, with his favorability rating staying within a 10-percentage point range through the COVID-19 pandemic, a felony conviction and attempted assassination.

To some of his supporters, the benefits of his presidency far outweigh the costs.

Kim Schultz, 62, of Springhill, Florida said she is thrilled with just about everything Trump is doing as president, particularly his aggressive moves to deport anyone living in the country illegally.

Even if Trump’s tariffs eventually take effect and push prices up, she said she will not be alarmed.

“I’ve always had the opinion that if the tariffs are going to cost me a little bit more here and there, I don’t have a problem with that,” she said.

Across the country, Hildenbrand dislikes Trump’s personality and his penchant for insults, including those directed at foreign leaders. But he thinks Trump is making things happen.

(Yes, it is easy to be nice to everyone when they are not ripping you off; but, everyone needs to understand – our past leaders have allowed the foreign countries to take advantage of the U.S. – DOGE proved that and our foreign aid was completely out of hand by having to borrow money to give to them with a debt of trillions. Was that okay?)

“More or less, to me, he’s showing that he’s on the right track,” he said. “I’m not in favor of Trump’s personality, but I am in favor of what he’s getting done.”

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As the old saying goes, you can please some of the people some of the time – but not all of the people all of the time.

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KOMMONSENTSJANE – What is Behind the Rest of the Story??

Posted on July 30, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

07/31/2025

The original purpose of flooding the country with anti-conservative rhetoric is the release of the Russiagate story about former President Obama which is akin to treason and the left is trying to smother it with the Epstein story.

When did the Wall Street Journal become a tabloid paper? Was it with this issue? We all know when the One World Order were shifting chairs in Europe – a lot of that side of the world responded with, “No Way Jose.” And, they held their ground and would not accept illegals coming into their country and even built fences. In the U.S., with the Democrats in control – illegals in the millions flooded our country. What happens when this occurs – it changes your culture because the traditions and the Constitution were left on the cutting room floor of newspapers. Now, our conservative President is swiftly sending the illegals back to their home country.

This is what is happening in the U.S. especially in the world of newspapers/TV which are owned now by liberals. Most of the CEO’s are former Obama/Biden employees and that is why all of the bad publicity and “take down” orders of our President.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/ex-abc-news-reporter-admits-employer-biased-against-trump-due-to-lack-of-viewpoint-diversity/ar-AA1JE0F7?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=688b814c3ee642789cd647a01ccbc5d3&ei=152

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/only-one-view-study-shows-morning-show-s-overwhelming-bias-for-liberal-guests/vi-AA1JEjE6?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=688b814c3ee642789cd647a01ccbc5d3&ei=301

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Following is how blatant the left is in their thinking.

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In response to the WSJ paper (with a new CEO from the Netherlands) tried to take down our conservative President by still ragging about the Epstein story and used the owner of the WSJ as the prop of the main story. Did the retired owner realize the paper was using him as the main story before attending a function sponsored by our President? If not, then, this is elder abuse by using the elderly person without his knowledge.

07/30/2025

The struggle for power is still evident. Whoever wrote this story has provided their side.

The American people struggled through 12 years of Democrat control which did not end well. We almost lost our country to SOCIALISM via the Obama/Biden facade. There will always be evil in all of our lives and this story/opinion proves it. It always ends with sex as being used against mankind.

The American people are tired of being used by the Democratic Party to further their own ambitions which is to tear up our country. The REAL Democrats need to realign their party and quit allowing the progressives to use their funds to take over their party. Make them establish their own party (like AOC/Talib).

Let’s hear from Mr. Latour and his side of the story. There was more than one birthday card sent and why did the WSJ just use one in the story – being President Trump?

The following information is interesting:

“I’d like to thank Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and Robert Thomson for their trust — and for their deep and continued support for and investment in quality journalism and the national and international institution that is Dow Jones,” said Mr. Latour. “Our role is more important than ever before. Our millions of readers and users in the U.S. and beyond are all faced with uncertainty in time ahead and our unique brand of factual news and analysis serves to help them make decisions in business, finance and personal life. Will Lewis and the team have left Dow Jones in great shape. We are well positioned to take The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Newswires, Factiva and our other brands to more people everywhere and continue — and accelerate — our growth. As always, our mission is to help people put the truth to good ends.”

The most interesting part of the above information was:

As always, our mission is to help people put the truth to good ends.”

News Corp Appoints Almar Latour as CEO of Dow Jones, Publisher of The Wall Street Journal – News Corp

“As always, our mission is to help people put the truth to good ends.”

How many more gotcha stories will be used to continue this persecution of one person? Who would believe that a “birthday” card would be such a story. After all – what is the difference in the Biden/Obama illegal immigration story and the Epstein story? Were they both using “sex” in the process?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-one-man-who-has-the-strength-to-finish-off-donald-trump/ar-AA1JzDhm?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=81b90d58fa304c33bf18c08f9bb1fb61&ei=9

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Fox News Founder Rupert Murdoch Is Retiring

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/21/1200761443/fox-rupert-murdoch-steps-down-retires-lachlan

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Fox founder Rupert Murdoch steps down from his media empire, handing it to his son
Updated September 21, 2023


David Folkenflik


Rupert Murdoch, 92, is stepping down as chair of his global media empire, which includes Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.


Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate who built an unmatched global media empire over seven decades from a single newspaper he inherited in his native Australia, announced on Thursday that he would step down.

“I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Murdoch wrote in a memo to employees at Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the many other properties that make up his two corporations, Fox Corp. and News Corp. “The time is right for me to take on different roles.”

Murdoch’s career has been marked by a singular drive for business success, an eagerness to have sway over elections and policies, and the repeated eruption of scandals. Fox News, which he founded in 1996, has played an increasingly prominent role in his profits, his influence, and his crises.


In his note to staff, Murdoch, 92, took a shot at unnamed elites, saying they “have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarified class” and said most of the rest of the media was in “cahoots with those elites.”

His elder son Lachlan Murdoch, who has been leading the companies with him, will become the sole chairman of both Fox Corp., the broadcast arm of the family’s holdings, and News Corp., which encompasses newspapers and book publishing. Rupert Murdoch will become chairman emeritus.

The changes will take effect in November, when the two companies, together worth about $26.5 billion, have their shareholder meetings. While they are publicly traded, Murdoch is considered to control more than 40% of their voting shares. Bloomberg estimates his fortune at more than $8.2 billion.
From tabloids to papers of record

Through outlets he acquired and others he founded, Rupert Murdoch ultimately dominated journalism and politics in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. Outside the U.S., he leveraged his outlets to support politicians from the center-left to the far right. In this country, his sway is almost entirely limited to the Republican Party.

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, right, huddles with Preston Padden, president of network distribution for Fox, during a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in May 1995. A generation later, Padden says Murdoch is unfit to hold the licenses for local television stations due to Fox News.
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A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations
Though Murdoch built his fortune initially on populist tabloids, he bought prestige newspapers such as the Journal and the Times of London to reach elites who forged policy and set consensus. He also created The Australian in 1964, that country’s only national daily.

That high-low approach, and his willingness to boost favored politicians, gave him entrée to top leaders in Australia and the U.K.; those seeking office would fly thousands of miles to court him. He did not have the same level of access in the U.S. except when former President Donald Trump, whom Murdoch privately disparaged, was in office.

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Trump Hosted Murdoch at Weekend Game Before Explosive WSJ Epstein Story – Newsweek

Trump Hosted Murdoch at Weekend Game Before Explosive WSJ Epstein Story

Published Jul 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM EDTUpdated Jul 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM

By Sonam Sheth and Peter Aitken

President Donald Trump hosted NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch at the FIFA Club World Cup Final just days before The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a “bawdy” birthday letter to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

Murdoch was among several high-profile political and media figures who joined Trump in his suite at the World Cup final on July 13, the Associated Press and CBS News reported. Others included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and football legend Tom Brady.

The Context

Trump and Murdoch have had a cozy professional relationship for years, with Murdoch’s media empire—which includes Fox News and the New York Post—publishing a slew of stories that have been favorable to Trump, from when he was a Manhattan real-estate tycoon, to when he entered politics and finally when he became president of the United States.

But Trump’s relationship with Murdoch reached a boiling point this week, when the Journal reported that Trump was among dozens of people who wrote letters to Epstein celebrating his 50th birthday in 2003. The story threw a wrench into Trump’s repeated efforts to distance himself from the disgraced businessman as the administration grapples with the fallout from its handling of the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 death in a New York City jail.

What To Know

On Thursday, four days after Murdoch joined Trump at the FIFA final, the Journal reported that the president was among the people who wrote letters to Epstein celebrating his birthday. Trump’s letter is said to have featured several lines of typewritten text surrounded by the outline of a naked woman, sketched in marker, and included Trump’s signature.

“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter said, according to the report.

When the Journal approached Trump before publishing its story, the president said in an interview that the letter was “fake” and threatened to sue the paper if it published the explosive report.

Trump raged against the Journal in a Truth Social post on Thursday after its report was published, saying he would sue the paper “shortly” over its “defamatory story.”

The president said he had “personally” warned the outlet and Murdoch before they printed the report that he would sue them if they pressed ahead with publication, and said that Murdoch had assured him that he would “take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so.”

Trump said on Truth Social that in addition to the Journal, he plans to sue Murdoch and the Journal‘s parent company, NewsCorp.

“The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don’t even exist,” he wrote, adding that he “looks forward to suing and holding accountable the once great Wall Street Journal.”

Newsweek reached out to NewsCorp via email outside of normal business hours for comment.

The public and media’s renewed focus on Epstein exploded after the Department of Justice, released a memo last week concluding that the sex offender died by suicide in 2019 in his Manhattan jail cell and that the government was not in possession of an “incriminating” list of Epstein’s “clients.”

The memo threw cold water on years of conspiracy theories—amplified for months by Bondi and other Trump administration officials—suggesting that Epstein was killed as part of a government cover-up. In the days since, Trump administration officials have alternated between saying there are no Epstein files and that the files were a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats.

Trump also lambasted his supporters as “weaklings” and said they got “duped” by the Epstein “hoax,” despite the fact that his own officials, including Bondi and Vice President JD Vance, had repeatedly suggested that Epstein’s death was a cover-up.

What People Are Saying

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X: “The Wall Street Journal published a hatchet job article with a FAKE ‘birthday letter’ that is supposedly from 2003 … The WSJ refused to show us the letter and conceded they don’t even have it in their possession when we asked them to verify the alleged document they’re basing their ENTIRE fake story on.”

She added: “When has President Trump ever spoken like the conversation alleged in the fake WSJ story? That’s not at all how he speaks or writes. The WSJ knowingly published false information to smear the President of the United States.”

Democratic Representative Sean Casten of Illinois wrote on X: “Like all things Trump, this is simultaneously disgusting and entirely unsurprising. He is exactly who we always understood him to be.”

Technology reporter Kara Swisher reacted to the report on Thursday evening, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “Even if he denies it … it creates a feeling, and especially online, that gets amplified and really weaponized in a lot of ways. So it’s not going to end here until he releases these files in some substantive way, which he seems reluctant to do…”

What Happens Next

Trump asked Bondi on Thursday evening to produce “any and all” grand jury testimony relevant to Epstein, subject to court approval, in order to put an end to what he described as the “ridiculous” publicity Epstein has gotten over the last week.

Update 7/17/25, 11:32 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information and context.

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The Host of the WSJ is Almar Latour and is from the Netherlands. It looks like Mr. Murdock’s “word” didn’t reach Mr. Latour?.

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