JD Vance quietly visits Rupert Murdoch's ranch amid WSJ's ongoing jabs at Donald Trump and his policies
JD Vance secretly visited Rupert Murdoch's big ranch in Montana on Tuesday. He met Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan Murdoch the head of News Corp and Fox News, and some other Fox News execs. The ranch is huge, 340,000 acres, near Yellowstone National Park, as per reports.
Vance did not tell anyone that he was coming, so people didn't know about his plans. His plane landed in Butte, Montana, and he left by car in a motorcade heading to the Dillon area. The plane flew away again after dark, according to a report by the Associated Press.
After the meeting, Vance and his wife, Usha, went for a hike on the land. That ranch is called Beaverhead Ranch. Murdoch and his ex-wife Jerry Hall bought it in 2021 for $200 million from the Koch family. The ranch is 50 miles long, with a 28-mile trout creek, according to the report by Politico.
It's not clear what the meeting was about, and no one from Vance's team or Murdoch's companies has commented yet. Vance had to fly 2,000 miles back to Washington, D.C., to have lunch with Trump on Wednesday.
Angry Trump
Trump has been upset with the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Murdoch. He called it a 'rotten newspaper' and said it has 'gone to hell.' He also said the Journal supports China and is bad for America. Trump got upset because the Journal's editorial board wrote critical stuff about him and his policies, as per the report by Daily Beast.
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A Wall Street Journal opinion piece said China is winning the trade war against Trump. Another one last week slammed the Trump admin for trying to block foreign students from Harvard, saying Vance's stance was a 'false choice.' One day before that, the Journal made fun of Trump's fight with Elon Musk, saying it was 'entertaining political theater,' but mostly for Democrats. On Wednesday, the Journal published a bold headline, 'Trump Has No China Trade Strategy.'
Vance is Republican National Committee's finance chair, so he's working on getting money for the 2026 midterms. The Murdoch family net worth of over $23 billion.
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