{"id":41678,"date":"2025-08-02T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/the-inside-story-of-the-murdoch-editor-taking-on-donald-trump-9\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:06:02","slug":"the-inside-story-of-the-murdoch-editor-taking-on-donald-trump-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/the-inside-story-of-the-murdoch-editor-taking-on-donald-trump-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The inside story of the Murdoch editor taking on Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since her arrival at the Wall Street Journal, British editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has shaken up not only her own newsroom but also the White House<\/p>\n<p>The danger posed to Donald Trump was obvious. It was a story that not only drew attention to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/25\/jeffrey-epstein-trump-scotland\">links to a convicted sex offender<\/a>, it also risked widening a growing wedge between the president and some of his most vociferous supporters. The White House quickly concluded a full-force response was required.<\/p>\n<p>It was Tuesday 15 July. The Wall Street Journal had approached Trump\u2019s team, stating it planned to publish allegations that Trump had composed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/25\/democrats-epstein-birthday-book\">a crude poem and doodle<\/a> as part of a collection compiled for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/aug\/02\/emma-tucker-murdoch-editor-donald-trump-wall-street-journal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since her arrival at the Wall Street Journal, British editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has shaken up not only her own newsroom but also the White House The danger posed to Donald Trump was obvious. It was a story that not only drew attention to his links to a convicted sex offender, it also risked widening a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}