'Straight out of the Murdoch empire': Morning Joe dismantles Trump claim Epstein is a 'liberal hoax'
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As MAGA loyalists worked overnight to deny the existence and legitimacy of President Donald Trump's signature on a birthday card to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a Tuesday, August 9th broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" blew the lid off all the denials with a simple explanation: Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch.
"The Wall Street Journal, it's been all over this story," said co-host Willie Geist. "Again, we've said it now for a couple of months. It's not going away. You now have, purportedly, according to The Wall Street Journal, who's matched the signature, Donald Trump's own signature in a note in the Epstein birthday book."
When the Journal broke the news of the existence of the lewd letter, Trump filed a lawsuit against Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, and called the conservative newspaper "third rate."
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"Let's remember, the president sued the Journal. Members of his administration attacked the Journal, basically daring them, like, 'Show us the evidence here,'" correspondent Jonathan Lemire told Geist."Well, they did, but let's remember, this isn't something they conjured up. This was in the Epstein estate since 2003. That'd be quite the long game to try to to get President Trump if this was indeed a hoax, to plant a birthday card more than two decades ago, and the Journal did a very good job."
Host Joe Scarborough agreed, noting the famously conservative paper broke the Epstein story.
"Of course, The Wall Street Journal, the Murdoch empire and the news ... is now, again, safely, the most conservative, the most powerful conservative media organization on the planet," Scarborough said.
"They are the ones who have broken this story," he said. "They are the ones who have continued reporting on this story. It is Rupert Murdoch's own conservative media empire that is running this. Not Democrats, not a Democratic hoax, not a left-wing CBS News edit or whatever they would want to say. This is straight out of the Murdoch empire. All of it."
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