Fox News co-founder Barry Diller revealed the 2023 prediction he got wrong was “[t]hat Trump would be figuratively or more hopefully dead.” Diller served as chairman and CEO of Fox from October of 1984 to April of 1992. He now serves as the chairman of the IAC holding company and the Expedia Group.
The Democrat media and business mogul has been a long critic of former President Donald Trump. Throughout the years, Diller has referred to Trump as a “joke” and “evil.” In a 2018 interview with fellow liberal Maureen Dowd, Diller said, “I would so love it if he were being blackmailed by Putin.” He added: “That would make me very happy. This was a man of bad character from the moment he entered adulthood, if not before. Pure, bad character. Ugh, Trump.”
One of Diller’s key points of contention with Trump’s presidency was immigration policy. In 2017, Diller claimed Trump’s efforts to end the globalist mass immigration agenda was causing American workers to leave the country for places like Germany – though this was not born out by emigration data.
Diller isn’t the only former Fox News executive to have a penchant for attacking former President Trump. Rupert Murdoch has made it clear he is no fan of the real-estate mogul turned populist politician. Murdoch went so far as to back – for a time – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s bid against Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
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