{"id":2282687,"date":"2024-06-24T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-biggest-debate-opponents-are-the-media-not-biden\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:25:36","slug":"trumps-biggest-debate-opponents-are-the-media-not-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-biggest-debate-opponents-are-the-media-not-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Biggest Debate Opponents Are The Media, Not Biden"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftrumps-biggest-debate-opponents-are-the-media-not-biden%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=2282687&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--><p>The article discusses an incident \u200bon CNN\u200d involving\u200c Trump campaign\u2062 spokeswoman \u2063Karoline Leavitt and CNN host Kasie Hunt. Leavitt was cut off and\u2064 her\u200d microphone was \u200dturned\u2063 off during a live\u200c interview after \u2063she \u2062accused CNN\u2019s debate moderators, specifically Jake Tapper, of having a bias against\u2062 Donald Trump. Leavitt\u2064 was\u2062 responding to a question about Trump&#8217;s strategy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hutchinson-claims-he-has-qualified-for-first-republican-debate-rnc-yet-to-confirm\/\" title=\"Hutchinson asserts debate qualification, RNC confirmation pending.\">upcoming presidential debate<\/a> when she referenced \u200cpast comments by Tapper\u2064 that she viewed as biased. The host, Hunt, warned Leavitt against attacking her colleagues and\u2062 eventually \u200dended the interview when Leavitt persisted.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt later expressed\u200c on the social platform\u2063 X that her termination from the \u200cinterview highlighted an expected unfair treatment towards Trump in\u2064 the \u2064upcoming debate. Additionally, she criticized CNN for allegedly silencing the truth and mentioned the broader context of perceived \u2063bias \u2063by CNN moderators against Trump, including contentious historical episodes involving the network.<\/p>\n<p>The article also notes that the Biden campaign had a significant role in determining\u200d the \u2064networks and conditions\u2062 for\u2064 the \u2064debate, with CNN being a\u2064 preferred choice due to \u2064past favorable\u200d treatment towards Biden and \u200dnegative portrayals of Trump. Critics argue\u2062 that this continues a trend of\u200d media bias and manipulation in political debates and \u200dcoverage.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CNN cut the microphone of Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Monday after she correctly pointed out the network\u2019s debate moderators\u2019 long history of anti-Trump bias \u2014 proving the former president\u2019s biggest opponent during the Thursday presidential debate isn\u2019t President Joe Biden, but the media.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Kasie Hunt first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rgr36RJemGM&#038;t=35s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> Leavitt \u201cwhat Donald Trump is going to do differently on the debate stage,\u201d before asking Leavitt what she expects from Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would take someone five minutes to google \u2018Jake Tapper, Donald Trump\u2019 to see that Jake Tapper has \u2014,\u201d Leavitt said, referencing that the debate would be moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, before Hunt cut her off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa\u2019am, we\u2019re gonna stop this interview if you\u2019re gonna keep attacking my colleagues,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2014 for example, consistently likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler,\u201d Leavitt continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa\u2019am, I\u2019m gonna stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cI would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for. If you are here to speak on his behalf, I\u2019m willing to have this conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past. Now, as for this debate \u2014\u201d Leavitt tried to say before her mic was cut and Hunt ended the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt said Leavitt could rejoin the show if she would answer the question about the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kleavittnh\/status\/1805219239776637183\">posted<\/a> to X that the point she was trying to make \u2014 and succeeded in doing \u2014 is that Trump would \u201cnot be treated fairly on Thursday\u201d by the network.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s decision to abruptly remove Leavitt from the air for factually noting Tapper\u2019s anti-Trump bias (including his comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler) effectively sent the message that the truth would be silenced at all costs. Should Trump say something entirely factual that CNN happens to dislike during the debate, he will be shut down (probably by Tapper himself).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Biden\u2019s team forced Trump\u2019s hand in conceding to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/15\/bidens-debate-demands-show-his-weakness-trump-can-capitalize-on-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CVS-receipt length list of demands<\/a> for Thursday\u2019s unprecedented debate. One demand was that the Biden team would choose which networks could moderate the debate.<\/p>\n<p>What better network for Biden than the one that peddled the Russian collusion hoax, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/01\/08\/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann\/\">defamed<\/a> a high school student for simply smiling at a protest, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/11\/07\/donna-brazile-is-totally-not-sorry-for-leaking-cnn-debate-questions-to-hillary-clinton\/\">leaked<\/a> debate questions to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016?<\/p>\n<p>Both Bash and Tapper have made their bias about Trump well known, with the latter \u2014 former <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/njhochman\/status\/1745473503686488318\">Hooter\u2019s spokesman<\/a> whose wife shills for Planned Parenthood \u2014 notorious for being the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-watchdog-fines-clinton-campaign-for-lying-about-steele-dossier-in-finance-filings\/\" title=\"Election Watchdog Fines Clinton Campaign For Lying About Steele Dossier In Finance Filings\">corporate media reporter<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/10\/politics\/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia\/index.html\">state<\/a> that Trump faced \u201cclaims of Russian efforts to compromise him\u201d uncovered by U.S. intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as my colleague Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/16\/russia-hoaxer-jake-tapper-is-the-perfect-partisan-hack-to-give-biden-a-debate-edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cTapper didn\u2019t merely treat Trump\u2019s presidency with contempt and unfairness. He repeatedly wondered if Trump\u2019s tenure in the White House was illegitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, Tapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/alex-christy\/2020\/11\/07\/cnn-projects-biden-win-tapper-claims-long-national-nightmare-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in his monologue that \u201cfor tens of millions of our fellow Americans: their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-going-on-with-the-paul-pelosi-story\/\" title=\"What Is Going On With the Paul Pelosi Story?\">long national nightmare<\/a> is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a time of several significant and utterly avoidable failures, most tragically, of course, the unwillingness to respect facts and science and do everything that could be done to save lives during a pandemic. It has been a time where truth and fact were treated with disdain. It is a time of cruelty where official inhumanities such as child separation became the official shameful policy of the United States. But now the Trump presidency is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the first presidential debates in 2020, Tapper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2009\/29\/se.04.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Trump was the cause of the \u201cworst debate\u201d he had ever seen because he was \u201cmaliciously attacking\u201d Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper later <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/14\/cnn-just-spent-a-full-year-running-interference-for-hunter-biden-and-his-familys-corruption\/\">ran defense<\/a> for Biden and his son Hunter during Biden\u2019s first year in office, claiming \u201cthere\u2019s no evidence that Hunter Biden has done anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that anybody did anything illegal regarding the Bidens and Ukraine, and Joe Biden was carrying out US policy,\u201d Tapper said.<\/p>\n<p>While news that CNN would moderate the debate rightfully drew immediate rebuke, the network\u2019s decision to cut Leavitt\u2019s feed for stating undeniable facts simply because it didn\u2019t <em>like<\/em> them is the final proof that Thursday\u2019s debate will be 3 to 1.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN muted Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt during a discussion on Monday. Leavitt had criticized the network&#8217;s debate moderators for their alleged anti-Trump bias. This incident highlighted that in the upcoming presidential debate, Trump&#8217;s main challenge might not be Joe Biden, but rather the media itself. Kasie Hunt of CNN initiated the conversation by questioning Leavitt about Trump&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2282688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-24-at-11.56.58-AM-e1719244793325-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,3896,4188,9893,3634],"class_list":["post-2282687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-debate","tag-media","tag-opponents","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-24-at-11.56.58-AM-e1719244793325-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282687","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}