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It's MAGA vs. mainstream media in Milwaukee

It's MAGA vs. mainstream media in Milwaukee


It's MAGA vs. mainstream media in Milwaukee

It appears the mainstream media isn't dialing back the heated political rhetoric supposedly being championed by President Joe Biden – particularly when it comes to the GOP's Trump-Vance ticket.

It started right after former President Donald Trump announced his pick for his running mate: Ohio's JD Vance, who is less than two years into his first term as a U.S. senator. Some of the reaction from media outlets included the following:

"He's unqualified. It's a singular issue" … "He is a radical authoritarian and Trump has picked him" … "He is now picking a vice president who has pledged 100% loyalty to the cult of Donald Trump" … "He would never stand for the Constitution before he would stand for Donald Trump."

Vance is young – only 39 – and known as much for his best-selling book and accompanying movie "Hillbilly Elegy" as he is for being a senator from the Buckeye State. He was a "Never-Trumper" in 2016 but says he changed his mind after Trump's first term. He's expected to follow Trump's lead on all policy matters – as is expected in a vice president – and that's what's got the media in a tizzy.

Republican strategist Tricia McLaughlin says she expects the name-calling. "'A radical authoritarian'? 'Bowing to the cult'? This is the exact kind rhetoric that is so central to the Democrats' message, to Joe Biden's message," she states.

But in this post-assassination attempt election season, she says the media needs to dial it back a bit. "That, again, leads to extremism like we saw on Saturday," says McLaughlin, "and I think Joe Biden needs to speak out against this."

Well … it's not happening

Less than two days after a bullet nearly took Trump's life, a testy encounter ensued on the convention floor between Donald Trump, Jr., and MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff.  The journalist stuck a mic in the face of the former president's son – and it was on:

Soboroff: "Your father as president – I think you would even say – was a divisive figure. What's it going to look like in a second term?"

Trump: "I don't think he was a divisive figure at all. I think the media created divisiveness around him."

Soboroff: "I know immigration's important to him. I covered the family separation crisis closely. Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents?"

Trump: "You mean the Obama administration?"

Soboroff: "You know they didn't do that, sir."

Trump: "Sure."

Soboroff: "Will there be a second family-separation policy?"

Trump: "It's MSDNC, so I expect nothing less from you clowns. Even today, even 48 hours later you couldn't wait – you couldn't wait with your lies and with your nonsense. So, just get out of here."

Donald Trump, Jr., then waved Soboroff off … and the interview ended.


Source of image above: MSNBC