Chuck Todd: It's Not the Media's Job to Vet Trump's Past

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 24, 2016
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the Nevada Caucuses, many on the right are scrambling to point fingers at who is to blame for his dominance. A common place for blame to fall is the liberal mainstream media for not aggressively looking into his past, something they do as a matter of course for virtually every other Republican.

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd washed the media's collective hands on Wednesday evening by claiming, essentially, that it’s not the media’s job to vet a candidate because the information is already there for the other campaigns to cobble together into attack ads.

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