I saw it tonight in passing and watched. The newsroom watched one of their reporters cover a Trump rally. When Trump left the stage, the reporter left the press area, and was promptly beaten up and put in the hospital by 5 people in MAGA hats.
After seeing him in the hospital, a younger reporter locates the people who beat him up in a redneck bar. He
starts to argue with them and they beat him up too.
Murphy is later interviewing a man about a story that for the first time in 8 years (since Obama) homelessness has gone up. The GOP guest says that is because they like being outdoors and they like to camp. Everyone expects Murphy to launch into him, but instead, sounding like a hostage in a video, she stiffly and under duress explains that homelessness is found in all administrations.
When they all incredulously ask why she was defending the guest, she said she is now afraid to speak her opinion honestly because she might get reporters hurt.
A blonde ditz reporter in the newsroom pulls out a 38 revolver and talks about how nobody needs to worry, she has the safety on!
She explains she got it for her birthday when she was a kid and now she has a permit. She keeps it near a sex toy in her bedroom saying both of them relieve her stress.
They go to a bar to discuss how bad America is becoming. The news director gets a threatening phone call, the 4th one today.
It was very sick.
I need to go shower now with lava soap.
Make that beaten up by 50 people in MAGA hats.
Are you serious? This was an actual episode?