Trump's dud election speech BACKFIRES; document dump contradicts his complaint
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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When a president gives a big speech, like a State of the Union address or a primetime address,
There is always, and I have managed a lot of these processes, a team of young press aides frantically putting together press clips and tweets and summaries of news coverage just to show their bosses, including the president, of course, how widely and positively the speech was covered. And my bet is last night's speech proved to be a bit more challenging for the crack team over at the White House because here's what they had to work with. The speech now did make the front page of The Washington Post this morning. You can see it on your screen right there, but really just barely. And that piece focuses on the fact that Trump didn't offer any evidence to back up his claims. And then there's the rest of the front page, which focuses on Trump's failure to renovate their Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and about how Trump's approval rating is down in the 30s.
Not exactly a framer to blast out to Trump supporters is that front page that you see on your screen right now. The LA Times jammed a mention of Trump's speech to the bottom right corner of the front page, just saying you could go to the paper's website if you wanted more info. Hey, everyone, we didn't feel like using ink here in our newspaper, but if you feel like it, you could go hunt around the website and you might find something on there. And the front page of today's New York Times didn't mention Trump's speech at all. And when you look at the coverage of Trump's favorite news source, in Trump's favorite news source of all of them, I think, that one may have prompted some tantrum throwing by the cable news loving man sitting in the Oval Office.
Because after Fox News played all 27 minutes of Trump's speech, and they did, letting him make all his outrageous allegations, they quickly brought on a reporter to give this fun little disclaimer.
Fox News has not seen that evidence yet, is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president's statements and claims at this time.
Okay, then. Now, to add insult to injury, Fox didn't even keep talking about the speech after that. That's pretty much it. They changed the subject almost immediately. So much for Trump's big, splashy, subject-changing, narrative-changing speech. And then this morning, Trump's personal favorite show, Fox & Friends, ignored his speech entirely. Now, Fox & Friends is a three-hour-long show.
Why did major news outlets largely ignore Trump's primetime election security speech?
They have a lot of time for segments on there. They had time this morning for segments about the World Cup and country music star Toby Keith and the dating app Hinge and WNBA star Caitlin Clark and the Fast and the Furious franchise, of course, which apparently still warrants a conversation. But they didn't have time for a segment about Trump's presidential address. Now, that one's got to kind of sting. Who knows what he was doing, flipping through the channel, maybe throwing remotes. We don't know. And it wasn't just the media leaving Trump hanging last night because Trump's speech was supposed to be the moment when he finally provided bombshell evidence that our elections were somehow insecure.
That was the promise, right? That the 2020 election was stolen and he was going to show us new evidence that had been withheld from him somehow, even though he had received a briefing on it. He said he was releasing newly unredacted intelligence documents to prove it all. But last night, the Washington Post reported that Trump's own CIA director, John Ratcliffe, was notably absent from Trump's intelligence-focused speech. And the minutes after his speech, Ratcliffe posted a statement in which he said a whole lot of words, but none of those words actually backed up the allegations that Trump, his boss, made in his speech.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:33
2
Why did major news outlets largely ignore Trump's primetime election security speech?
3:33–22:20
3
What evidence did Trump claim to release and why did intelligence officials dispute it?
22:20–41:23
4
How did the declassified documents contradict Trump's claims about China and election hacking?
41:23–43:17
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