NBC More Worried by Trump’s ‘Dark Tone’ Than Firebombed GOP

Kyle Drennen | October 17, 2016
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

On Monday, NBC’s Today devoted a nearly three-minute report to stoking fears that Donald Trump’s supporters could cause violence if the Republican nominee is defeated in November, while only offering a scant 39 seconds of air time to a GOP campaign office in North Carolina being firebombed over the weekend.

Teasing the story on Trump voters, co-host Savannah Guthrie warned: “Just ahead, claims of a rigged system, calls for revolution. The very real worries about what might happen after election day.” In the segment that followed minutes later, correspondent Hallie Jackson proclaimed: “It’s not all of Donald Trump's supporters, but some, who are now talking more about rising up or a revolt, seizing on Trump's rhetoric about a rigged system.”

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