Baltimore Journo: ‘Sick’ Trump Down ‘Road of Evil’, Media Should Oppose in 2020

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 28, 2019
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In another organized effort by the liberal media to amplify their narrative about President Trump allegedly being a racist, CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” introduced a panel loaded with media folks from Baltimore in order to denounce the President, after a Twitter battle with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) about his district.

Media janitor Brian Stelter, who grew up in Maryland, kicked off his Sunday show with a rant decrying Trump, Fox News, and those exposing the horrors of West Baltimore. “Trump is getting a distorted view of the country from what he sees on a right-wing talk show. This content then fuels his racist tendencies and his never-ending campaign continues,” Stelter proclaimed.

He then trotted out Baltimore residents David Zurawik from The Baltimore Sun and CNN analyst April Ryan. As would be expected, this combination of anti-Trump media folks and ties to Baltimore/Maryland led to a potent case of righteous indignation. Despite the fact that Ryan admitted that parts of Baltimore looked “abandoned”, they all insisted Trump was stoking racial tensions with lies.

Zurawik was the most unhinged out of the three of them. He actually admitted that “as a journalist” his personal “vitriol” for Trump was what drove his reporting.

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