‘Shame On You’: ABC, NBC Whine Trump ‘Caved Entirely’ to NRA

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 12, 2018
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The liberal media were in sour moods Monday after the White House released their plan for how they were going to move forward on school safety and gun control. They were upset that the plan didn’t have the sweeping and constitutionally questionable actions they were desperately hoping for, which also had them singing President Trump’s praises just two weeks ago.

And at the White House tonight, President Trump revealing his plan for gun safety, and critics are now asking about a promise he made that is not in the proposal,” announced ABC’s sensationalist anchor, David Muir on World News Tonight.

The report was headed up by Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl who was in a somber mood through the entire report. “Less than two weeks ago, President Trump boldly declared he's not afraid to take on the NRA,” he said before asserting that Trump had “caved entirely to the gun lobby on school safety.

Karl complained that Trump’s proposals didn’t have any solid action for employing age restrictions for purchasing certain types of firearms, most notably the AR-15. “Parkland survivor Sam Zeif had pleaded directly to the President for the age increase,” he recalled of Trump’s listening sessions at the White House. But he failed in his duty to report that Zeif’s argument was partially based on a fake news story that went viral with the help of a CNN anchor.

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