James Murdoch Concerned About Trump's Charlottesville Comments


In a Thursday email to friends, 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch expressed his concern and seeming confusion as to why the president would make the remarks he did on Tuesday about the protests in Charlottesville.

“[W]hat we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the President of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people,” Murdoch said in the memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Murdoch, whose father Rupert serves as the executive chairman of Fox, told friends that “standing up to Nazis is essential.”

“I can’t even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists. Democrats, Republicans, and others must all agree on this, and it compromises nothing for them to do so," Murdoch wrote.

Murdoch is the latest of many business leaders to speak out after Trump's Charlottesville comments. For example, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday that he “strongly” disagreed with Trump's Charlottesville reaction:


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