Both CNN and MSNBC shied away from airing former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s post-arraignment speech to his supporters in Bedminster, NJ Tuesday night; both networks claimed it was due to his “lies.”
“It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said.
“We knew heading into this that he was planning to make these remarks,” she continued. “We are prepared for his pre-fundraiser remarks tonight to, again, be essentially a Trump campaign speech. Because of that, we do not intend to carry these remarks live. As we have said before in these circumstances, there is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things. We are here to bring you the news. It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them.”
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Over on CNN, Jake Tapper said it would be “dangerous” to air Trump’s remarks.
“We’re not carrying his remarks live because, frankly, he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous,” Jake Tapper told CNN audiences.
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Jake Tapper on CNN not covering Donald Trump’s speech: “We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”
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From Fox News:
Earlier in the day, Tapper rebuked CNN producers for showing the former president celebrating with his supporters. “The folks in the control room, I don’t need to see any more of that,” Tapper grumbled on-air. “He’s trying to turn this into a spectacle, a campaign ad. That’s enough of that.”
Tapper went on to warn audiences that CNN would air a clip of Trump defending himself that was full of “untrue and unfounded claims about the charges against him and the people he thinks are behind it.”
More over at Fox News:
CNN, MSNBC refuse to air 'potentially dangerous' Trump speech to supporters https://t.co/9EMTZjhQrQ
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