{"id":2009927,"date":"2023-08-23T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-advisers-spotted-dining-with-legacy-media-reporters-in-milwaukee-ahead-of-trump-less-gop-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T00:03:01","slug":"trump-advisers-spotted-dining-with-legacy-media-reporters-in-milwaukee-ahead-of-trump-less-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-advisers-spotted-dining-with-legacy-media-reporters-in-milwaukee-ahead-of-trump-less-gop-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump advisers seen dining with legacy media reporters in Milwaukee before GOP debate without Trump."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-advisers-spotted-dining-with-legacy-media-reporters-in-milwaukee-ahead-of-trump-less-gop-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009927&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump Campaign Dines with Legacy\u2063 Media Reporters Ahead\u2062 of Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Members of the Trump campaign were spotted dining with a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-advisers-spotted-dining-with-legacy-media-reporters-in-milwaukee-ahead-of-trump-less-gop-debate\/\" title=\"Trump advisers seen dining with legacy media reporters in Milwaukee before GOP debate without Trump.\">top legacy\u2064 media reporters ahead<\/a> of the first Republican presidential debate that\u2064 Trump is skipping.<\/p>\n<p>Top reporters from outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC were seen \u2062rubbing shoulders with Trump advisers Chris LaCivita,\u2064 Jason \u200dMiller, and \u200cSteven Cheung at a Milwaukee steakhouse called &#8220;Rare,&#8221; according to a POLITICO Playbook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>.\u200b Team Trump\u2064 was also passing \u200cout items poking fun at\u200d Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the former president&#8217;s top rival within the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-classified-material-found-at-trumps-home-was-electronically-copied-onto-a-laptop-report\/\" title=\"More Classified Material Found At Trump\u2019s Home, Was \u2018Electronically Copied\u2019 Onto A Laptop: Report\">team reportedly handed<\/a> out pudding\u2064 snack packs \u2064\u2014 a jab at DeSantis based \u2064on a Daily Beast story \u2014 and bingo cards with squares that included phrases such as &#8220;dismisses polls,&#8221; &#8220;wipes snot,&#8221; and &#8220;woke.&#8221; Some members of \u2063DeSantis&#8217; team were\u2063 also reportedly at the restaurant when the pudding \u2063and bingo cards \u200cwere handed out.<\/p>\n<p>The report triggered a response from conservatives who said they were surprised\u200d that members of Trump&#8217;s \u2062team would &#8220;wine and \u2062dine&#8221;\u200d with\u200b the same media that continues to attack the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Radio host Steve Deace, who recently endorsed DeSantis, took to X\u2062 to express his disgust with team Trump&#8217;s tactic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump campaign meeting with corporate media who hates us all, but they&#8217;re conspiring together to destroy Ron DeSantis,&#8221; Deace <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevedeaceshow\/status\/1694323532090515763?s=46&#038;t=XGiUuNPiSLBSXsXhdarMAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u2064&#8221;The same \u2063media that \u2064tried to impeach Trump and\u2064 is trying to put him in prison now, nevertheless toasting his campaign. All the same people the Trump campaign is schmoozing now will of course go all\u2064 in to defeat him in the general.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deace said a\u2064 source who was at the restaurant told him that &#8220;not a \u200dsingle conservative\u2064 media outlet \u200cwas there. All\u2063 corporate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-comms-team-gets-a-pass-where-trump-administration-would-have-had-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Comms Team Gets A Pass Where Trump Administration Would Have Had A Scandal\">left-wing media<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE\u200b DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They accused you of being traitor and Russian asset. They stole an election from you. They impeached you. They&#8217;re trying to imprison\u2063 you now,&#8221; \u2062Deace said. &#8220;And your people are wining and dining \u2063them? Are you freaking kidding me? What\u200c will\u200c it take to take this \u2063all seriously?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Curtis \u2064Houck, \u2064managing editor of NewsBusters, also posted a\u200b stunned response to the \u200dreport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Team Trump &#8216;wining and dining with a number of\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-caught-in-controversy-after-leaked-recording-shows-reporter-complaining-about-diversity-promotions\/\" title=\"ESPN Caught In Controversy After Leaked Recording Shows Reporter Complaining About \u2018Diversity\u2019 Promotions\">top reporters<\/a>.&#8217; Amazing. Coordinating with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-73976-ballots-released-by-maricopa-county-56-1-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 73,976 Ballots Released By Maricopa County \u2014 56.1% FOR DONALD TRUMP\">liberal media<\/a>,&#8221; Houck said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Team Trump &#8220;wining and dining with a number of top reporters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing. Coordinating with the liberal\u200b media. \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eWvsZMY4gQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/eWvsZMY4gQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1694385214825365641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Trump campaign has not responded to a Daily Wire request for comment \u2062on the report.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced\u200c last week \u200dthat he would skip the debate, opting for a \u200csit-down interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson instead. The former president was criticized by many of his GOP opponents who believe Trump should attend the debate and explain how he can defeat President \u2063Joe Biden and the Democrats in 2024, but Trump has\u2063 maintained that his sizable \u2063lead in the polls \u2062makes\u2064 his participation in any\u2063 debates unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Trump campaign were seen dining with prominent legacy media reporters before the first Republican presidential debate, which Trump decided to skip. CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC reporters mingled with Trump advisers Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller, and Steven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2009928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}