Trump says networks are ‘members of the DNC’, cites media’s extreme bias against him

President Donald Trump slammed mainstream media networks as “offshoots of the Democrat National Committee” on Friday.

Reuters reporter Jeff Mason asked about whether he sees “a difference between cancel culture and consequence culture,” which prompted Trump to remind everyone that the media’s spin machine is constantly running at maximum capacity when covering his administration. He says this feels “illegal” to him, and adds that it is “no longer free speech” when reporting is not “at least accurate to an extent.”

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“Follow up on Charlie Kirk, a lot of talk about free speech this week. Do you see a difference between ccancel culture and consequence culture?” Mason asked.

“I mean, your question is a little trick question. I’m a very strong person for free speech. At the same time, when you have networks that, where I won an election like, in counties – I guess it’s 2,600 to 525, let’s call it a landslide times two. When you have that level of popularity or voter support as I did in the last election, and yet 97%, 94%, you see different numbers, but 97, 94, 95, 96% of the people are against me in the sense of the newscasts are against me. The stories are– they said 97% bad. So, they gave me 97, they’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally,” the president stated.

“You can’t take free airwaves, you’re getting free airwaves from the United States government and you can’t have that and say- and somebody that just won anthe election. And I had to go through this during the election. I think it’s a miracle that I can win, when 97% of the stories on the networks are bad. Or whatever it may be, it doesn’t matter; it’s a tremendous number. It changes,” Trump continued. “When you have that kind of negative reporting, fake negative reporting, when they take a great story and they make it into a bad story constantly, that is what they do. Look, 60 Minutes took [former Vice President] Kamala’s answer and they threw it out and they gave her a different answer so she sounded competent.”

“When things like that happen, George Slopadopolous, from your network, right, George Slopadopolous had to pay $16 million to me because of what he said. And that’s ABC. You had to pay more than that, your network had to pay more than that. So, I think it’s very sad, but I think reporting has to be at least accurate, at least accurate to an extent. Again, when somebody is given, 97% of stories are bad about a person. That’s no longer free speech. That’s no longer anything. That’s just cheating. And they cheat, and they become, really, members of the Democrat national committee. That’s what they are, the networks, in my opinion. They’re just offshoots of the Democrat National Committee,” he concluded.

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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