Scarborough: ‘Elites and Media People’ Are Misconstruing What Trump Actually Said

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough took aim at the “elites and media people” making a big deal out of Trump’s refusal to affirm that he would accept the results of the election.

“How many people in Scranton, Pennsylvania care about what he said in that answer compared to people in news rooms that are whimpering and whining with their, you know, soy lattes?” he asked.

Mark Halperin agreed, saying, “Normal people won’t care about that answer. That’s why I say again, elites control a lot of this process. They don’t like that answer.”

Scarborough proceed to insist that “elites and media people” were spinning Trump’s language — that the GOP candidate never actually said he would challenge the result of the election, merely that he would adopt a wait-and-see approach on whether or not to accept a loss in November.

“I think for elites and media people […] to try to boil that entire debate down to that one answer, that’s very predictable,” he said. The notion that Trump said he would challenge the election was a media fiction, Scarborough insisted. “He never said that! Which is extraordinary — the leap that all the media has made,” he said.

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Sam Reisman (@thericeman) is a staff editor at Mediaite.

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