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Frenemies for life: Trump vs Murdoch enters round 2

Elizabeth Knight Business columnist October 22, 2025 — 3.14pm

It doesn’t get any better than watching the entrails of a billowing stoush between Australia’s highest profile export, Rupert Murdoch, and his pugnacious president and frenemy, Donald Trump?

They were at it again this week as they battled over who was telling the truth about the authenticity of a bawdy birthday card sent to disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal newspaper alleged had been signed by Trump.

But marrying this battle with Trump’s recent announcement that he had invited Murdoch to become part of an investment syndicate of great patriots to buy out the US assets of TikTok cre

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