Republican communications consultant Lee Carter brought to light the network’s inaccurate portrayal of former President Donald Trump in a recent CNN piece, after statements he made during Tuesday night’s town hall.
Carter said that Trump’s words were taken out-of-context, causing CNN’s pile-on in the entire segment to come grinding to a halt.
Trump was asked about the media’s tremendous dread of him acquiring power during an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “You are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity inquired.
“Except for Day One,” Trump jokingly stated. “I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill!”
Carter claimed that when taken out of context, this soundbite twisted the former President’s original meaning. The CNN debate, paradoxically, functioned as a forum for exposing the network’s anti-Trump prejudices.
“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.
“This is very much like in 2016, everybody said, ‘He’s an outsider, he’s got no experience.’