In an attempt to vigorously spin Hillary Clinton’s recent debacles, the “Big Three” network mobilized to her defense Monday. Between Clinton’s attacks on Donald Trump’s supporters and her medical episode on Sunday, the networks were busy trying to depict him as worse than her. “Meantime, as health becomes a major topic in this campaign, Donald Trump has released even less information about his medical history than Hillary Clinton has,” announced NBC anchor Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News.
“Trying to show he's transparent, Donald Trump's promising to share the results of a recent physical,” reported a skeptical sounding Hallie Jackson for NBC, “It's not clear what Trump will reveal or when.” Jackson had little to say about Clinton’s attack on Trump supporters Friday. She brushed off Trump’s comparison of the comment to Mitt Romney’s 47 percent controversy from 2012 , saying, “But for a confrontational candidate, possible political risk as a new poll shows 60 percent of Americans think Trump is biased against women and minorities.”
On ABC’s World News Tonight, reporters Cecilia Vega and Tom Llamas kept their repudiation of the situation simple. “To date, all he's released is this four-paragraph statement from his doctor, declaring that Trump, "Will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,"” Vega argued, “That doctor later saying he wrote it in a rush with Trump's car waiting outside.”
Llamas seemed irked that Trump would dare to want an apology from Clinton on behalf his supporters, or as Clinton calls them the “Deplorables.” “Trump, who has refused to apologize for his own controversial statements about women, Muslims and minorities, is now demanding a true apology from Clinton,” he stated.
The network which farthest out of their way to slam Trump with Clinton’s problems was CBS. On CBS Evening News, reporter Major Garrett tried to take the sting out of Clinton’s attack by running a series of controversial comments made by Trump. Their juxtaposition meant to show that Trump’s comments were worse hers. He also leaned on a clip of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham where he too exclaimed that Trump supporters were deplorable. “Trump also invited supporters white and black on stage to testify they’re neither racists nor deplorable,” said an unamused Garrett closing out his report.
CBS even trotted out John Dickerson, their Political Director, to expound on why Clinton’s debacles are meager compared to Trump’s. Dickerson harped on about how Trump has released less of his medical records than Clinton and how he had yet to release his tax returns. “And so the question with him is, if he is not transparent in the campaign, how transparent will he be as president,” Dickerson speculated. He concluded with insinuating, much like the other networks that Clinton’s comments were simply not on par with Trump’s disparaging comments in any way.