NBC’s Todd Badgers Senator Blunt on Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Attacks on the Press

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 5, 2018
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Fresh off of spreading #FakeNews about who President Trump targeted with insults about intelligence on Sunday, moderator Chuck Todd kick off his Meet the Press interview with Missouri Senator Roy Blunt (R) by badgering him about the President’s attacks on the press and refusing to acknowledge that the media does, in fact, put out fake news.

After introducing Senator Blunt to his viewers, Todd quickly jumped to a tweet President Trump put out earlier that morning saying that the press “purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!” “Sometimes I try to ignore his attacks on the press. But this morning he seemed to go a bit overboard with this tweet,” Todd told Blunt before asking for his opinion.

Blunt tried to appease Todd by talking about the pleasant interactions he had in the media on Capitol Hill, but Todd was more interested in stoking fear of the President and out of control Trump supporters. “But at some point, calling -- when you call a group of people you otherwise him the way he's doing with the press, calling them sick, sort of dehumanizing them. It makes violence against the press easier to rationalize for some. That's the concern that many news organizations have right now,” he asserted.

The Senator reminded Todd that there were plenty of people on cable news that were spewing terrible thing about the President as well. Todd shot back with a silly question about if two wrongs made a right. “I don't think so, but there's a lot of in-depth psychology that goes on on some news stations every day too,” Blunt noted.

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