Through the Lens of the Pro-Trump Media

On the Media | Jul 14, 2017

On Tuesday, new emails surfaced about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian official last summer. They show that Trump Jr. had been promised compromising information about Hillary Clinton — information from a "Russian government" source. Some in the mainstream media have called this the “smoking gun,” evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. For the pro-Trump media, however, it’s just another story to spin to strengthen the president’s grip on power. Bob speaks with Charlie Warzel, a senior writer for Buzzfeed News, about the logic governing the pro-Trump media's response.

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