An Australian court this week ordered Murdoch Media Imperial Prince Lachlan I to pay $1.3 million AUD or $840,000 in legal fees to Australian website Crikey after Murdoch had pressed libel charges against owner Private Media over a piece which declared, correctly, “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator,” the New York Times reports.
Murdoch’s complaint was dropped just two days after Fox and Dominion Voting Systems settled the massive US libel lawsuit for $787 million. In a statement, butthurt Murdoch lawyer John Churchill tried to spin Lachlan having dropped the complaint, saying they didn’t want to “facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers and boost their profits.” Cool story bro.