Hillary Clinton’s campaign took a trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey Wednesday to slam Donald Trump for shutting down two of his casinos there. ABC and NBC were more than happy to aid Clinton in her Trump bashing cause during their evening news programs. “Hillary Clinton went on the attack against Trump today during a rally in Atlantic City right in the shadow of a now shuttered Trump casino,” reported NBC’s Lester Holt on Nightly News, “Criticizing his company's filing for bankruptcy.”
ABC’s Cecilia Vega played along with Clinton’s theatrics, stating, “Hillary Clinton today, taunting Donald Trump on his own turf.” Vega continued, “Right here in Atlantic City, outside his shuddered Trump Plaza Casino. Trump's casinos once fixtures in this city.”
NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell, and Clinton super fan, touted Clinton sticking it to Trump, “Clinton meeting with striking workers at Trump's former Taj Mahal who claim they lost their pensions and healthcare.”
ABC and NBC parroted Clinton’s attacks on Trump and talked about Trump’s bankrupted casinos as if they were the only casinos to have closed. “But again and again, Trump filed for bankruptcy on his properties, Clinton now accusing Trump of abandoning the famous boardwalk and its workers,” Vega said.
But the truth is, Trump’s casinos were not the only ones to shut down. Four of the city’s 12 casinos closed in 2014 after they all saw their incomes plummet by 50 percent in eight years. And in December 2015 CNN Money reported that, “three of the remaining casinos are "already on the brink," with the Trump Taj Mahal, Caesar's and Bally's having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.” Atlantic City as a whole was so bad the state government was forced to bail it out the casinos.