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On Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC’s Chuck Todd sat down with journalist Michael Wolff to discuss and promote his dubiously sources anti-Trump gossip book Fire and Fury. During the interview, the NBC host seemed to let it slip that the “entire media” was pushing an anti-Trump narrative and claimed that the book confirmed their accusations.
“You thought that the media was too one-sided or that was the impression you were giving. I have to say, when you read this book, you almost seem to reinforce the entire media narrative you were criticizing,” Todd said after reading something Wolff wrote in 2017 that was critical of the media’s unfair coverage of Trump.
“You know, I think that in the beginning, the media took this point of view without having had this experience,” Wolff explained. “You know, I went into this, a decent part of the country went into this, his entire staff went into this thinking maybe this can work.” But according to him, their wishful thinking was for not. “OK, that’s not the story. He is not going to succeed. This is worse than everybody thought,” he declared in a serious tone.
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