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Rupert Murdoch son's rebuke of Donald Trump may signal a shift

Rupert Murdoch, 86, has served as an informal adviser to Donald Trump

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Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman of News Corp and 21st Century Fox. Photo: Reuters

Emily Steel | NYT
At 5:55 p.m. on Thursday, James Murdoch sent an email to a list of blind-copied recipients offering a striking repudiation of President Trump and a pledge to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. He addressed the note to “friends,” stating in the first line that he was writing it in a “personal capacity, as a concerned citizen and a father.”

Yet for the son of the conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who speaks regularly with Mr. Trump, it’s impossible to separate the personal, the political and the corporate.

James Murdoch’s message, which he wrote himself, was sent to a number of