The Dominion lawsuit has complicated the narrative of Murdoch as an all-powerful agenda setter.
affair. The Trump faithful responded by comparing him to Jesus dying for their collective sins, revealing once more, in all its incomprehensible force, the high-voltage emotional connection Trump has managed to maintain with his base.
It is worth underscoring that it’s notoriously difficult to win a defamation case. But the evidence against Fox was so damning and the principal players, likely including Murdoch himself, were so reluctant to appear in court that the company’s legal team must have felt it had no choice but to pay up. The $787.5 million price tag is less than the $1.6 billion Dominion had originally demanded, but it is still significant: Fox reported a profit of $1.2 billion in 2022.
We have seen this scenario play out before: The 2016 primary similarly started with Murdoch opposed to Trump before he hopped onto a juggernaut he had no power to stop. He will do so less eagerly this time around but will acquiesce all the same if Trump continues to dominate the field.
For all the blame laid at Murdoch’s feet, Fox didn’t create the modern-day Trump that liberals know and loathe — that was NBC, which made him a household name withand rescued him from near destitution. His appeal was nonpartisan back when he was an autocrat presiding over his real-estate holdings and a collection of golf courses.
The American infatuation with Trump is the most overanalyzed subject in recent memory while remaining an obdurate mystery: It requires us to understand why his ugliness is so attractive to so many, which in turn requires seeing at least a little of this ugliness in ourselves.
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