It doesn’t get any better than reading the entrails of a billowing stoush between Australia’s highest-profile export, Rupert Murdoch, and his pugnacious president and frenemy, Donald Trump.

They were at it again this week as they battled over who was telling the truth about the authenticity of a bawdy birthday card sent to disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal newspaper alleged had been signed by Trump.

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump need each other but aren’t afraid to take one another on either. Credit: Monique Westermann

But marrying this battle with Trump’s recent announcement that he had invited Murdoch to become part of an investment syndicate of great patriots to buy out the US assets of TikTok creates a cognitive dissonance.

It’s fair to say that despite the various reservations Murdoch has had about Trump through the years, the president has been a huge bonus for the nonagenarian’s right-wing cable business Fox. So convinced was Murdoch of the financial importance of........

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