In a recent CNN segment, Republican communications professional Lee Carter brought to light the network’s misleading portrayal of former President Donald Trump, after comments he made during Tuesday night’s town hall. Carter said that Trump’s remarks were taken out of context, offering a different perspective than the narrative CNN has been pushing.
During the interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Trump was asked about the media’s overwhelming fear of him taking power. “You are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked.
“Except for Day One,” Trump joked. “I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill!”
Carter argued that this soundbite, detached from its full context, distorted the former President’s intended message. The discussion on CNN, ironically, served as a platform for exposing the network’s own biases as well.
“I don’t think that what he meant to say was, ‘I’m really going to be a dictator’ in that moment. That’s not what he was saying. He was saying, ‘I’m going to be a dictator on day one and under these two terms,’” Carter explained.
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