Fox News Chyron Labels Joe Biden A “Wannabe Dictator” As Network Airs Donald Trump’s Post-Arraignment Address; CNN And MSNBC Skip Live Carriage Of Speech
14.06.2023 - 04:31
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CNN and MSNBC decided to skip live carriage of former President Donald Trump’s post-arraignment speech at Mar-A-Lago on Tuesday night, leaving Fox News as the only major cable news network to cover it live.
Fox News not only carried the entire speech, but at one point the network went to a split screen of President Joe Biden speaking at the White House and Trump in Bedminster, NJ. The network’s chyron read, “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”
Trump plead not guilty to a 37-count indictment in which he is accused of concealing materials containing top national secrets and attempting to obstruct federal officials efforts to retrieve them.
In the speech, Trump blasted the special prosecutor Jack Smith and aired a long list of grievances, while making the claim that Biden is behind the charges against him. In fact, Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Smith as special prosecutor to investigate Trump, and also appointed a special prosecutor to probe Biden’s retention of classified documents.
Earlier in the evening, when Trump arrived at his Bedminster, NJ club to give the speech, CNN’s Anderson Cooper explained to viewers, “We are not going to take it live but we’ll monitor it” with anything that might be newsworthy. Anchor Jake Tapper said that they bypassed live carriage of the speech because “frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told viewers, “There is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things. We are here to bring you the news. It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false