De Blasio blames Fox News for ‘negativity and divisiveness’ leading to Trump’s election

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New York’s Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday blamed media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his right-leaning Fox News channel for the intense divisions in politics today, and for the election of President Trump.

Without Fox News, De Blasio said in an interview Tuesday with the British Guardian newspaper, “we would be a more unified country. We would not be suffering a lot of the negativity and divisiveness we’re going through right now.”

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