I have a feeling that Fox News’ Rupert Murdoch is going to be getting an angry call if he hasn’t already.
On Tuesday evening, Piers Morgan’s new show, which will appear on a new network called TalkTV (owned by Murdoch), put out a promo for an interview with Donald Trump billed as the “most explosive interview of the year.” To bolster that claim, the video shows Trump and Morgan squaring off, ending with a demand to “turn off the camera” and Trump allegedly storming off the set.
Further, The New York Post, which is owned by Murdoch as well, specifically reported that Trump angrily walked off in the middle of the interview.
But while it does appear there were some contentious moments involving the 2020 election, a new report from NBC News claims to have proof that Trump and Morgan did end things in a friendly way. That directly counters the editing of the promo and the prior reporting on the incident by Murdoch’s various properties.
WASHINGTON — An audio recording obtained by NBC News appears to show that former President Donald Trump’s highly publicized interview with Piers Morgan did not end with Trump storming off the set, as edited promotional video clips suggest.
Instead, according to the recording, which was provided by Trump’s spokesman, the two men thanked each other and laughed at the conclusion of the interview for Talk TV, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
Talk TV, which is set to debut Monday, teased the interview — billed as “the most explosive interview of the year” — in a video summary that is dramatized with cinematic music and portrays Trump as being angry about the content of questions Morgan asked. The video and the alleged walkout were reported in an article by the New York Post, which is also owned by News Corp.