Trump Trashes CNN: ‘Until They Straighten Up, I’m Not Doing Their Shows’
Donald Trump is pissed off at CNN today, and there are a couple of reasons why that might be the case.
Maybe it was Brian Stelter calling out a Trump surrogate or Fareed Zakaria calling Trump a “bullshit artist,” but whatever the case, he’s clearly pissed off:
CNN will soon be the least trusted name in news if they continue to be the press shop for Hillary Clinton.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
CNN anchors are completely out of touch with everyday people worried about rising crime, failing schools and vanishing jobs.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
When will we see stories from CNN on Clinton Foundation corruption and Hillary's pay-for-play at State Department?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
Will CNN send its cameras to the border to show the massive unreported crisis now unfolding — or are they worried it will hurt Hillary?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
The people who support Hillary sit behind CNN anchor chairs, or headline fundraisers – those disconnected from real life.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
People believe CNN these days almost as little as they believe Hillary….that's really saying something!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
And then, at a town hall in Columbus, Ohio this afternoon, he made this declaration:
“CNN is so dishonest. Clinton News Network. So dishonest. Unbelievable. You know what they call it? It may be the Clinton News Network, but nobody wants to watch Hillary. All day long it’s Trump. All day, all the time. But it’s so much inaccurate information, and by the way, I think their ratings are gonna go down really sharply now. They’ve been asking me to go on for months. I won’t do their shows. And the reason I won’t is because it’s so dishonest. Until they straighten up, I’m not doing their shows. And when people finally realize that I’m not doing their shows, they stop watching! That’s what happens!”
UPDATE –– 4:39 pm EDT: Key passage worth highlighting here in a write-up from Stelter on Trump’s CNN attacks:
The tweets came just a couple of hours before CNN was due to release a new national poll about the presidential race, leading to speculation that perhaps Trump was pre-emptively assailing CNN in an attempt to discredit the poll results.
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