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Trump’s split reality: While suing Murdoch, he woos him over TikTok

Elizabeth Knight Business columnist September 22, 2025 — 3.16pm Advertisement

What about the size of that elephant in the room?

When Donald Trump deliberately dropped the bombshell that Rupert Murdoch and son Lachlan were part of the president’s curated team of investors to buy the American arm of TikTok, he simply ignored his $15 billion legal assault against the nonagenarian media mogul and his empire.

The Trump attack against The Wall Street Journal and its publisher and parent company, News Corp, also included Murdoch snr as a defendant. It was personal. In his legal filing, Trump said that before publication of claims he had signed a lewd birthday card

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