CNN Cuts Away from Trump's Victory Speech After Mentioning Border Crisis

Nicholas Fondacaro | January 16, 2024
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Former President Trump gave a late-night victory speech on Monday after a historic showing in the Iowa Caucus. But despite the liberal media calling the results for him mere minutes after caucus doors closed and speeches were still ongoing, the liberals at CNN and MSNBC didn’t want viewers to hear his victory message to American voters. CNN’s Jake Tapper immediately cut away after Trump dared to mention the crisis at the southern border, while MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow opted to censor Trump’s speech in its entirety.

After Trump took a few minutes to commend the other candidates in the race for their strong showings and tout his campaign staff, Trump pivoted to talking about the issues. “We are going to seal at the border. Because, right now, we have an invasion. We have an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. I can't imagine why they think that's a good thing,” he proclaimed.

This mention of the border crisis, which was made worse by President Biden’s open borders policies, caused Tapper to immediately interrupt the broadcast and kvetch that Trump was being “anti-immigrant” rather than just being anti-illegal immigration.

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