Democratic Senator Says Trump Is Attacking the Press Because ‘He’s Trying To Steal From You’
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said President-elect Donald Trump is attacking the press because doing so will make it easier to “steal from” the American public.
Over the weekend, ABC News settled a defamation Trump brought for $15 million. The president-elect is also suing CBS over an interview Vice President Kamala Harris did with 60 Minutes. Additionally, he is suing The Des Moines Register, its parent company Gannett, pollster Ann Selzer, and her polling firm over a highly errant outlier survey Selzer conducted for the paper before the election.
Murphy appeared on Wednesday’s Deadline: White House on MSNBC, where host Nicolle Wallace asked about the looming confirmation hearings of various Trump nominees, including Kash Patel, whom Trump tapped as FBI director. Patel has pledged to go after Trump’s enemies in the media and the government.
“When Trump targets someone, it is a red-hot assault on their reputation,” Wallace said. “Sometimes it comes with public safety concerns. What is… the strategy for protecting people who end up on the other side of Donald Trump?”
Murphy responded:
I think it’s really important to explain to people the why. Why is Donald Trump engaged in this relentless campaign to try to silence journalists, media companies, and his political opposition?
It’s because he is trying to steal from you. He and his friends are in charge of the government because they want to rig the rules in order to make them even richer. The billionaires that are in charge of his cabinet wanna be multibillionaires. Donald Trump will never be satiated. He wants to steal from ordinary Americans in order to make him and his Mar-a-Lago friends even richer. And the reason he wants to silence his critics and silence the media, is that he doesn’t want anybody to notice the kleptocracy that he is building.
The senator went on to implicate billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who both supported Trump’s campaign. After winning the election, Trump appointed Musk as co-chair of the “Department of Government Efficiency,” an advisory commission that purports to address government spending and waste.
Watch above via MSNBC.
