Trump Is Paying Media Outlets He Claims To Hate To Attend His Events

Donald Trump loves to claim that he hates the media, and has made it a central theme to his brand of politics. But the truth is that he can't get enough of them, and his recent campaign filings show that he's actually paying media outlets that he claims to despise to show up at his campaign events. He actually has stiffed them on some of their bills, along with not paying the full costs of the Secret Service protection that he is using. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Donald Trump has made a central theme of his entire political presence. The fact that he hates the media, right? They're the enemy of the people. He says, he actually said it again recently, within the last couple weeks, he hates the media so much because they're so mean to him. They're so unfair to him. They're not giving him the praise that he thinks he deserves. And by God, he's gonna let you know how much he hates him every chance he gets. And he hates them so much by the way, that according to his campaign, financial disclosures, he's actually paying them to attend his events. That's right. Folks. Donald Trump, the man who hates the media with a passion, is making sure that they show up to his campaign rallies because he's the one paying the bills. His latest campaign, financial Disclosure, shows that he owes money at the moment to the New York Times, the Daily Caller, and a b C News for reimbursements for travel expenses, which he has routinely been paying again, so that these outlets show up and talk about his events. So even though he claims to hate them, he is still paying them to show up and cover what he is talking about.

He also, by the way, still owes money to the Secret Service for providing him protection during these campaign events, because even though he is guaranteed Secret Service protection for the rest of his life, they are not required to protect the rallies. However, during his campaign, the Secret Service has been set up as basically general security for these events, and therefore, he has to pay back the federal government those expenses. He still owes that money to the government for that Secret Service protection. He has not yet paid it. But that's typical of Donald Trump, right? He doesn't like to pay for law enforcement. We've seen that with his rallies going all the way back to 2015. He literally still has bills from that first presidential campaign for security to cities that he hasn't even paid yet. So the Secret Service thing, that's understandable. The media thing, on the other hand, that's ridiculous.

Here's the thing, these media outlets do not have to cover every single Trump rally out there. They do not have to send their cameras. They do not have to send their reporters. Yeah, it's nice that Donald Trump is paying for it for him, but even if he wasn't, because again, technically he still owes them reimbursements that he hasn't paid yet, they would still do it because the man is the train wreck. He is the big source of traffic, right? You gotta have Trump in that headline or else people are gonna scroll right past it and not give a. But these media outlets

Are making the same mistakes that they made in 2016. They're giving Trump all these, all this coverage. 'cause again, it drives clicks. It drives views, it sells newspapers, sells advertisements, and they're pushing him back into the foreground. They're pushing him back into the White House because they're not being critical. They're trying to be even-handed. Oh, you know, well, we kind of gotta both sides things here. Oh, we can't be too harsh against him. We can't talk about what a lunatic he is. We can't point out every time he has a brain malfunction and the rest is history. They did it in 2016. Had it not been for Covid, they would've done it in 2020, but they're darn sure trying to do it again for 2024.