Democratic New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio torched News Corp. Sunday, blaming the right-leaning media conglomerate founded by Rupert Murdoch for stoking the fiery racial rhetoric that helped elect President Trump.

“There is no Donald Trump without News Corp., I firmly believe that. He never gets to the presidency because he would have never been elevated the way he was consistently for years and years,” De Blasio said during an interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”

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