{"id":268340,"date":"2023-05-02T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T07:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268340"},"modified":"2023-05-03T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:14:01","slug":"report-rupert-murdoch-held-secret-meeting-with-zelenskyy-before-tucker-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268340","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Rupert Murdoch Held Secret Meeting With Zelenskyy Before Tucker Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mark Steffen \u2013 Trending Politics News May 1, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The owner of Fox News and his son, a top deputy, held two previously undisclosed meetings with Ukraine\u2019s president shortly before firing host Tucker Carlson \u2013 who is vehemently critical of the U.S. sending aid to the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/30\/2023\/the-murdochs-ukraine-connection\">Semafor<\/a> broke the news that Fox Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan allegedly met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy and held two separate calls to discuss the ongoing war and the death of a Fox journalist killed in action. While Carlson, who has vocally opposed efforts to transfer billions of dollars in foreign aid to the country, was not mentioned on the calls by Zelenskyy, he has been criticized by some of the president\u2019s top deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has mounted that some of the former host\u2019s opinions had gotten him in trouble with the Murdoch family, especially as it relates to Ukraine and other foreign policy matters such as U.S. business relationships with China, which has provided tacit support to Russia during its attempt to seize neighboring Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump, as well as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a likely contender for the GOP nomination, have both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/03\/14\/desantis-trump-tucker-carlson-ukraine\">aligned<\/a> with the anti-war wing of the GOP where support for Carlson remains high. Carlson previously sent a questionnaire on the subject to all GOP presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/tucker-carlson-no-limit-war-ukraine\">op-ed<\/a>, Carlson pointed to the seemingly endless stream of cash being sent to Ukraine as its war with Russia drags into its second year and the changing of goalposts to determine what success looks like for the U.S. and its ally. Republicans who grew disillusioned with neoconservative policies in Afghanistan and Iraq have looked to Carlson for equilibrating opposition on foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The former Fox host drew a nightly audience of three million viewers and remains a potent prognosticator for GOP candidates hoping to win the White House next year. Fox has seen a dramatic decline in its primetime 8 p.m. viewership since Carlson\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trendingpoliticsnews.com\/report-murdoch-held-secret-meeting-with-zelenskyy-before-tucker-firing-mstef\/?utm_source=sheri\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation has mounted that some of the former host\u2019s opinions had gotten him in trouble with the Murdoch family, especially as it relates to Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":268341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-The_Media","category-The_Oligarchs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268342,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268340\/revisions\/268342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}