As Trump began floating baseless claims of election fraud, television networks cut away
In a striking editorial decision, the country’s three leading television news networks cut away from President Trump’s misinformation-heavy address from the White House on Thursday evening.
NBC, ABC and CBS — which together drew about 22 million viewers during their evening news broadcasts last week — all initially aired the White House briefing before cutting away. NBC News’s sister network, MSNBC, did so, too, though CNN and Fox News carried the entire thing as the president cast doubt on the integrity of the election process and alleged wrongdoing and fraud, without evidence.
“Here we are, again, in the usual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States, but correcting the president of the United States,” MSNBC anchor Brian Williams noted. Responding to Trump’s claims, Williams said: “There are no illegal votes that we know of. There has been no Trump victory that we know of.”
On CNN, anchor Jake Tapper said: “What a sad night for the United States of America, to hear their president say that. To falsely accuse people of trying to steal the election. To try to attack democracy that way with this feast of falsehoods. Lie, after lie, after lie, about the election being stolen. No evidence for what he’s saying. Just smears about the integrity of vote-counting, in state after state. … It’s frankly pathetic.”
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If there's one thing an attention whore like Trump doesn't like it's being ignored. Welcome to irrelevance Donny.
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