MSNBC Uses Trump’s ‘Petulant’ WashPost Ban to Slam the Reagan Administration’s Press Treatment

Curtis Houck | June 15, 2016
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Nearly two days after Donald Trump revoked press credentials of The Washington Post for his campaign events, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports was still wallowing over it on Wednesday afternoon as the eponymous host and her panel slammed the idea that a candidate would attack the liberal media as both “petulant and childish” plus bashed the Reagan administration’s press record.

Mitchell pivoted from fawning over the Senate Democratic filibuster for gun control to Trump’s press ban by turning to Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who made the now-routine comparison of Trump to Richard Nixon.