Unsealed documents reveal that President Donald Trump was set to be banned from a channel his base trusts most.
Documents obtained from a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic, a voting machine company, against media giant Fox Corporation, reveal text messages from CEO Lachlan Murdoch, 54, to Fox host Sean Hannity, warning that the president would not be invited back for interviews if he attacked the network.
“Sean, sorry, but the president is not coming back on air if he uses it to attack us,” Murdoch wrote about Trump, 79. “It is the same rule we have with the other side. This is a golden rule,” he added before signing off with an informal “Thx L.” The released documents redacted Hannity’s response.
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