Steve Bannon says billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s fingerprints are all over the Wall Street Journal’s decision to publish a birthday greeting President Donald Trump supposedly wrote to child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Bannon believes the Murdochs are out to get the president and will stop at nothing, the UK Daily Mail reported.
“Last night, we saw it in all its ugliness,” the media mogul and former White House adviser said during his “War Room” podcast on Friday.
“The Murdochs hate Trump.”
Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal, and other reporters who broke the story.
Bannon said this will be Trump’s opportunity to strike at the media mogul who owns the paper through his News Corporation conglomerate.
On Thursday, the Journal printed the contents of a “bawdy” birthday card Trump allegedly sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday.
“Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the typed message said before Trump’s purported handwritten signature.
Trump has vehemently denied writing the letter to the disgraced financier and filed a $20 billion lawsuit to prove it.
Bannon thinks this is an orchestrated attack on Trump after years of back-and-forth attacks.
“The Murdochs want to