Trump’s War On The Media Is Working

According to the latest polling data, Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the press have made quite an impression on the American public. The majority of people in this country, including a super majority of Republicans, believe that the major cable news outlets and newspapers are publishing fake stories with the sole intention of hurting Trump. This is a false belief, but it is one that Trump has spent more than 2 years cultivating. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what this could mean for the 2020 elections.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well, some of the latest polling data out there has some really good news and some really, really bad news for the 2020 elections. Let's start with the bad news. The bad news is that a majority of people in this country, 57%, according to the new poll, say that media outlets, the corporate media outlets, the left leaning media outlets, which for some reason actually includes Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Nonetheless, 57% of the public believes that these news outlets actually report false stories about Donald Trump for the sole purpose of making him look bad. More than half the country believes that these news outlets are reporting, quote, fake news just to hurt Donald Trump. Now the number of Republicans who think that is through the roof, almost 90% of Republicans think that media outlets are reporting fake stories to hurt the president. Uh, less than 30% of Democrats think the same thing,

but

the pole gets even worse from there. Cause we've known Donald Trump's attacks on the media, we're going to be a thing that Republicans tried to run on. We know that because the RNC actually told us that a year ago. That's what they were running on. Then the midterms didn't work well for them then, but now things are starting to change. The public is starting to buy into Trump's lies that any negative media on him is just fake news and that's very disappointing. The corporate media socks, don't get me wrong, I hate them. I do not watch them ever,

but I hate them for a different reason. I hate them because they're corporate owned entities who don't focus on the issues and who Barry important stories because they're corporate sponsors won't let them talk about that stuff. Trump hates them because they report the truth about him, which pretty much 99% of the time happens to be negative because he's a very negative, horrible human being. Now on to more bad news from the pole. Um, 71% of Republicans think that the views held by Democrats threatened the wellbeing of the country. 71% of Republicans think democratic views and ideas hurt the wellbeing of the United States. That is a massive hurdle that has to be overcome. But it's also a hurdle that kind of tells us what direction we need to go in in terms of media outlets. It has been a lot of talk recently, a Twitter between, you know, some progressive hosts, some arguing, some openly just questioning, you know, should I, should I interview these right wing people? Is that going to do anything? And I think this poll helps to give us an answer. No, it's not. When you have 71% of a political

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