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Not even 24-hours after The New York Times published its joke of a report about President Trump’s taxes, and the Democrats and the media had already jumped the shark with their accusations. During their Monday newscasts, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News attempted to promote Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) crazy conspiracy theory that the President was owned by foreign governments via the over $400 million in loans for his business, suggesting it was a “national security” threat.
The coverage on NBC was insidious. White House correspondent Geoff Bennett didn’t even play the soundbite of the Speaker making the accusation to MSNBC earlier in the day. Instead, he relied on NBC senior business correspondent and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.
“It's a national security issue,” Ruhle proclaimed, parroting Pelosi. “You could potentially have a sitting president who owes hundreds of millions of dollars. The American people are going to want to know who he owes that money to and can he make it clear he can put country over business interests?”
Interestingly, Ruhle had spoken on the same MSNBC program just moments before Pelosi. Bennett also seemed to take pleasure in suggesting Trump was drowning in a “mountain of debt.”
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