The mainstream media is once again distorting the words of Donald Trump as he campaigns for president. This time, the media is reporting that Trump wants the media shot at.
The distortion was so bad that the Trump campaign issued a rare explanation of his remarks, in context:
“President Trump was brilliantly talking about the two assassination attempts on his own life, including one that came within 1/4 of an inch from killing him, something that the Media constantly talks and jokes about. The President’s statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else. It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats. In fact, President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also. There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!” said Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications director.
“All we really have over here is the fake news, right? And to get me somebody would have to shoot through the fake news,” Trump said in his remarks in Pennsylvania, as he pointed out the bulletproof shields around him, but not around the media, which left a gap in protection for him — and no protection for them. “And I don’t mind that so much.”
The media immediately interpreted that to mean that he wanted them shot.
The media picks and chooses its targets. Last week, it ignored Biden’s compulsive biting of a baby’s leg. On Saturday, President Joe Biden said that MAGA Republicans need to be smacked in the *ss, but the mainstream media did not issue a “Breaking News” alert about that comment.
