Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, detailed on Fox News Monday the problems with the media’s out-of-context coverage of former President Donald Trump’s “bloody” comments.
Hanson appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” and addressed the threat he believes a Biden administration poses to the auto industry, saying over the weekend that it would be “a disaster for the country” if Biden were re-elected. We discussed the coverage of President Trump’s remarks. Fox host Laura Ingraham asked Hanson about the “seriousness” of the issue, saying the media continues to take the former president’s words out of context and claim he is escalating violence. added. (Related: President Trump discards media reports of ‘bloody’ remarks: ‘Pretending to be shocked’)
“This is serious because it shows that people are in free fall,” Hanson said. “They have tried to use the law to destroy Donald Trump, but they have had little freedom because the prosecution is not working. They have tried to take him off the ballot. They have bankrupted him. , tried to destroy us mentally, physically, and financially, but it didn’t work. We are looking at the two wars that broke out between them, the energies, but they cannot tackle any of them because they were ungodly disasters.”
“Then they look at the candidate himself and he is unable to function as a normal 21st century candidate,” he added. “They’re looking at the vice president. So this frustration builds up. And they just lash out and make it even worse. They’re like addicts. They’re obsessed. They don’t understand that they’re destroying themselves, destroying their popularity, their theme, their message. But they’re so into it, they can’t stop. I’ve never seen anything like this before. .”
Following President Trump’s remarks at an Ohio campaign rally on Saturday, reports of the former president’s “bloody” comments have been circulating online. Paralleling corporate media coverage, Biden’s campaign team posted a nine-second clip of his remarks without providing viewers with any context that the former president was referring to the auto industry.
playing cards I took it He took to social media on Monday to hit back at the backlash he received and clarify the background behind his comments.
“I was simply referring to the auto industry-destroying imports that crooked Joe Biden has authorized,” Trump wrote. “The United Auto Workers union is not its leader, but they completely understand what I mean.”
