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Sinclair Forces Local TV Stations to Air Segment Defending Tear-Gassing Migrants
‘MUST-RUN’Sinclair Forces Local TV Stations to Air Segment Defending Tear-Gassing Migrants
In his latest ‘must-run’ commentary segment, former Trump official Boris Epshteyn claims agents ‘had to use tear gas’ to protect the border.
Matt Wilstein
11.27.18 1:43 PM ET
If you tuned into one of the approximately 200 local news stations owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group this week, you may have seen the company’s “chief political analyst” Boris Epshteyn—the short-lived Trump administration official—deliver this aggressive defense of the Border Patrol’s decision to shoot tear gas at a group of asylum-seekers that included women and children.
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The “must-run” segment, which airs in the middle of otherwise ostensibly objective local-news broadcasts, begins with Epshteyn declaring: “The migrant crisis on our southern border has greatly escalated.”
As footage from the confrontation plays on the screen, he adds: “Dozens of migrants attacked U.S. border enforcement by throwing rocks and bottles. Ultimately, American authorities had to use tear gas to stop the attacks.”
Epshteyn then goes on criticize “some on the left, such as Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters” who “were immediately up in arms about our president and his team standing up for our men and women in uniform and for our national security.”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/sinclair-forces-local-tv-stations-to-air-segment-defending-tear-gassing-migrants?ref=home
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