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A month after President Trump had invoked the Defense Production Act calling on General Motors to manufacture ventilators for the coronavirus crisis, CBS Evening News refused to acknowledge that fact as they praised to automaker on Monday. This came after the newscasts had repeatedly insisted the Trump administration wasn’t doing anything to have desperately needed equipment made here at home. CBS also mislead viewers on how the federal government would handle virus testing.
“General Motors announced today they are hiring 1,000 new workers at their plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to help build 30,000 ventilators by August,” anchor Norah O’Donnell announced at the top of her report. “On Sunday’s 60 Minutes we showed you how the automaker has retooled their factories in a wartime-like effort to fight the coronavirus.”
Since O’Donnell mentioned her 60 Minutes piece, a look back at that revealed that she did mention Trump’s use of the Defense Production Act to sign a $500 million deal for 30,000 ventilators. So, she knew about it but didn’t care to mention it on her own newscasts, which would have taken mere seconds to say.
The liberal media have been ignoring Trump’s use of the DPA to compel companies to make essential equipment to fight the virus. Trump and the media have been equating that fight to the mobilization of the U.S. war machine to fight World War II. And O’Donnell happened to use that analogy in her report.
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