More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Despite Project Veritas releasing bombshell videos on Tuesday of Democratic operatives bragging about paying protesters to disrupt Donald Trump rallies and admitting to voter fraud, the broadcast networks have censored any mention of the scandal. After Tuesday’s evening newscasts skipped the story, on Wednesday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows maintained the blackout and instead cheered President Obama denouncing Trump’s claims of a “rigged election.”
On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: “President Obama is hammering Trump over his claims of a rigged election, saying the Republican nominee is ‘whining before the game is even over.’” In the report that followed, correspondent Hallie Jackson fretted: “Trump, on the trail, insists the system’s rigged, even without evidence of widespread voter fraud.”