{"id":2397345,"date":"2025-01-31T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-wins-media-battle-by-treating-the-left-as-propagandists\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T07:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:33:32","slug":"trump-wins-media-battle-by-treating-the-left-as-propagandists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-wins-media-battle-by-treating-the-left-as-propagandists\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wins Media Battle By Treating The Left As Propagandists"},"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\">20<\/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-wins-media-battle-by-treating-the-left-as-propagandists%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=2397345&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>Teh article discusses a recent exchange between CBS News&#8217; Margaret Brennan and Vice \u200dPresident J.D. Vance regarding a near terrorist attack in Oklahoma. Vance \u2063criticized the Biden-Harris management&#8217;s vetting process that \u2062allowed an Afghan individual with questionable background into the U.S. brennan attempted to challenge Vance&#8217;s viewpoint, \u2063but he retorted, &#8220;I don\u2019t really care, Margaret,&#8221; emphasizing\u200d that \u2062he believes most Americans share his concerns about national security. The piece suggests that many journalists, like Brennan, are\u200d perceived as biased and engaging in political \u200dpropaganda rather than seeking genuine answers. It highlights how figures within the \u2063Trump administration, including press \u2063secretary Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Miller, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">effectively counter similar lines<\/a> of questioning\u2062 by framing discussions \u2062as debates against Democratic viewpoints. The author argues that this approach reflects a broader understanding among Trump officials that many media representatives act in \u2063alignment with Democratic\u200c interests.  <\/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>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t really care, Margaret,&rdquo; is a line that has now reverberated throughout the country &mdash; and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News&rsquo; Margaret Brennan tried on Sunday to trap Vice President J.D. Vance with a typical left-wing gotcha question about a near terrorist attack in Oklahoma. Vance pointed out, correctly, that an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/10\/afghan-who-plotted-election-day-massacre-worked-for-the-cia-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Afghan man<\/a> was allowed into the U.S. through a questionable vetting process under the Biden-Harris administration. Brennan tried to contend that it was unclear whether the alleged terrorist was radicalized before he entered the United States (as if that makes a difference).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t really care, Margaret. I don&rsquo;t want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me,&rdquo; Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/27\/unshakable-j-d-vance-destroys-margaret-brennan-on-face-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired back<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For too long, Republicans and the American people have been conditioned to treat people like Brennan as &ldquo;journalists.&rdquo; In doing so, they&rsquo;ve shouldered a burden to prove or defend basic principles (in this case protecting our people and our sovereignty) to these so-called journalists who are supposed to be unbiased and in pursuit of legitimate answers to legitimate questions.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, people like Brennan aren&rsquo;t asking legitimate questions or looking for legitimate answers &mdash; they&rsquo;re just trying to create fodder for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump, former press secretaries Kayleigh McEnany, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders fielded questions similarly during the first Trump administration, there certainly was much to be desired from people like Mike Pence and other administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps what is more apparent this go around for Team Trump is the widespread understanding within the administration that these &ldquo;journalists&rdquo; are just propagandists.<\/p>\n<p>Take Karoline Leavitt&rsquo;s first press briefing as White House press secretary. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;NBC News has learned that ICE arrested 1,179 undocumented immigrants on Sunday, but nearly half of them &mdash; 566 of the migrants &mdash; appear to have no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-alien-arrested-for-violent-carjackings-shooting-16-year-old-boy\/\" title=\"Illegal Alien Arrested for Violent Carjackings, Shooting 16-Year-Old Boy\">prior criminal record<\/a> besides entering the country illegally,&rdquo; one reporter said, asking whether there&rsquo;s been a shift in policy from President Donald Trump, who campaigned on beginning deportations of illegal immigrants with &ldquo;criminals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The reporter technically answered her own question, rightly noting that the &ldquo;criminal record&rdquo; the aforementioned aliens had was being here <em>illegally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leavitt didn&rsquo;t miss a beat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/2025\/01\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">firing back<\/a> that &ldquo;a foreign national who illegally enters the United States of America&rdquo; is &ldquo;by definition, a criminal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt understands the burden isn&rsquo;t on her (or the president) to explain to a hack why someone being here <em>illegally<\/em> is, well, illegal and necessitates a deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CNN&rsquo;s Jake Tapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2025\/01\/28\/stephen-miller-illegal-aliens-biden-brought-are-in-our-cities-collecting-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday about illegal immigration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-concerned-trillions-in-domestic-spending-will-fuel-inflation-polls-show\/\" title=\"Voters Concerned Trillions in Domestic Spending Will Fuel Inflation, Polls Show\">grocery prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Department of Agriculture says that between 2020 and 2022, 42% of crop workers were undocumented immigrants and in many cases, as you know, these migrants do jobs many Americans do not want to do,&rdquo; Tapper claimed, before asking how Trump would work to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrants-guilty-of-dui-assault-will-not-be-deported-under-biden-plan\/\" title=\"Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan\">deport illegal immigrants<\/a> while ensuring grocery prices don&rsquo;t rise.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a preposterous dichotomy: Tapper wants his viewers to believe that they must relinquish their national sovereignty if they want lower grocery prices, using the false pretense that grocery prices are kept low when illegal immigrants are exploited for cheap labor. <\/p>\n<p>But Miller didn&rsquo;t hesitate to point out the absurd insinuation. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;s not your position, Jake, you&rsquo;re just asking the question that we should supply America&rsquo;s food with exploitative illegal alien labor. I obviously don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s what you&rsquo;re implying,&rdquo; Miller said, condescendingly pointing out the absurdity of Tapper&rsquo;s premise. &ldquo;Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture. The top destination for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, Los Angeles, and small industrial towns, of course, all across the heartland, as we&rsquo;ve seen with the Biden floods, none of those illegal aliens are doing farm work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Miller then went on to outline Trump&rsquo;s policies that would benefit consumers and farmers. <\/p>\n<p>The reason Miller, Leavitt, Vance, and the entire Trump administration are fielding these absurd questions so well is because they are approaching every interview and every question as though it&rsquo;s a debate with a Democrat &mdash; because they understand these &ldquo;journalists&rdquo; are just the propaganda wing of the Democrat party.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really care, Margaret,&#8221; has resonated nationwide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2397346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-30-at-8.32.23-PM-e1738287238335-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3691,33960,3634],"class_list":["post-2397345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-left","tag-media-battle","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-30-at-8.32.23-PM-e1738287238335-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397345","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=2397345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397349,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397345\/revisions\/2397349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}