“I think they’re losing a lot of credibility,” said Eric Trump of “the mainstream media,” presumably referring to left-wing and Democrat-aligned news outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
In a Sunday-aired interview with Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters, the president’s son described the left-wing and partisan Democratic biases of many news media outlets as “par for the course.” He suggested that left-wing and Democrat-aligned news figures were angry after having been defeated in 2016’s presidential election:
It’s what we’ve been dealing with since day one. We came under attack every single day during the campaign, and we’re going to continue to come under attack. So many of these people, they got it wrong. They got it wrong, and now they’re doubling down. [My father] is driving them crazy, and in fact, I think they’re going so extreme in so many cases that I think they’re losing a lot of credibility, and I think that’s really resonating with Americans.
Watters quipped that the “mainstream media” had little credibility to begin with.
Trump described the “Trump-Russia” narrative as “nonsense” and “really insane,” amounting to a “total hoax” and “witch hunt.”
Democrats and their news media allies, said Trump, were prioritizing their ideological and partisan biases above the national interest:
There was a political party, they got beaten very badly by a person who came out of nowhere, who everybody wrote off, who everybody gave no chance to. They outspent us seven-to-one. He won. There are some pretty disappointed people out there, so they want to further a narrative for their own political agenda. I really believe that they would rather see this country fail than see him succeed.
Watch the interview below.
H/T Josh Feldman at Mediaite.
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