Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that Donald Trump's call for banning refugees while overhauling the vetting process "makes sense" — and the developer shared the Twitter post with his nearly 5.2 million followers.
Here's what Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corporation, said:
Trump retweeted the post, without comment.
At a rally in South Carolina on Monday, the Republican presidential front-runner called for the ban, a day after President Barack Obama's address to the nation on how he would defeat Islamic State terrorists.
Hours later, however, Murdoch tweeted this:
Still, the posts marked a departure for Murdoch, who has slammed Trump on his immigration positions since he began his run for the Republican presidential nomination in June.
In July, Murdoch said this about Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants being more involved in crime than legal residents:
He then pushed Trump to back up his claim, citing FBI statistics:
Later that month, Murdoch bashed Trump over suggesting that Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain was not a war hero because he had been captured held captive during the Vietnam War:
And in August, after polls were showing Trump with a solid lead among his presidential rivals, Murdoch urged former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to jump into the race:
Though later cautioning:
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