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Team Trump Is Winning The Media Battle By Treating Left-Wing Press As The Propagandists They Are
The Federalist ^ | January 31, 2025 | Brianna Lyman

Posted on 01/31/2025 1:48:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The reason the entire Trump administration is successfully fielding absurd questions so well is because they understand these ‘journalists’ are just the propaganda wing of the Democrat party.

“I don’t really care, Margaret,” is a line that has now reverberated throughout the country — and for good reason.

CBS News’ 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 Afghan man 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).

“I don’t really care, Margaret. I don’t want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me,” Vance fired back.

For too long, Republicans and the American people have been conditioned to treat people like Brennan as “journalists.” In doing so, they’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.

Nowadays, people like Brennan aren’t asking legitimate questions or looking for legitimate answers — they’re just trying to create fodder for Democrats.

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.

But perhaps what is more apparent this go around for Team Trump is the widespread understanding within the administration that these “journalists” are just propagandists.

Take Karoline Leavitt’s...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: press; propagandists; trumpmas
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1 posted on 01/31/2025 1:48:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Leftist Media are the Perps of Death (AKA POD’s).


2 posted on 01/31/2025 1:51:45 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Team Trump Is Winning The Media Battle By Treating Left-Wing Press As The Propagandists They Are

I've been trying to get Republicans to adopt this tactic since Reagan.

*STOP BEING NICE TO THEM!*

They are lying vermin intent on sabotaging anything we try to do to make the nation better. Treat them like the enemy soldiers they are.

3 posted on 01/31/2025 1:52:17 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And the leftist press are screeching at their highest voices, as is Adam Schiff, won’t work.


4 posted on 01/31/2025 1:52:35 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Be nice, until it’s time not to be nice.”

You can learn a lot from watching “Roadhouse”.


5 posted on 01/31/2025 1:53:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder if they realize how much they are helping President Trump?

US Voters sent Trump to DC because they were sick of the political status quo in the US Federal Government.

The Democrat directed media screaming in hysteria every day merely cements in voter’s minds the fact he is doing what they sent him there to do.


6 posted on 01/31/2025 1:53:26 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Remember the story that President Trump told for years about the snake? The lady tried to be nice, but the snake was still a snake biting her. A subtle way of explaining the lame stream media. We can’t be nice to a clan that hates the truth.


7 posted on 01/31/2025 1:56:01 PM PST by Son-Joshua ( )
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To: dfwgator

Dalton is a man to be emulated.


8 posted on 01/31/2025 1:58:29 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: MNJohnnie

“ The Democrat directed media screaming in hysteria every day merely cements in voter’s minds the fact he is doing what they sent him there to do.”

That’s what I tell my lib friends. “ You got him elected. Thank you.”


9 posted on 01/31/2025 2:02:08 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Privatize the administrative state!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No more Presidential debates moderated by mainstream media propagandists! Defund the media propagandists! Hire Pravda “journalists”, before media propagandists!


10 posted on 01/31/2025 2:05:04 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I watched Leavitt’s press briefing today.

I don’t want to get carried away after so little time on the job.

But she was absolutely amazing.

I have never seen any press secretary better prepared and as quick to respond as she was.

All business.

And as David Letterman used to say when he was actually worth listening to, very easy on the eyes as well.


11 posted on 01/31/2025 2:07:32 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: DiogenesLamp
*STOP BEING NICE TO THEM!*

Exactly!

12 posted on 01/31/2025 2:13:20 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

At the rate they are quitting, won’t be any left.


13 posted on 01/31/2025 2:16:15 PM PST by Fledermaus (GOP RINOs - Get on Board or Get Out!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

None of these leftists in the media care at all about how their lies and agenda hurt others. They’ve driven this nation to the brink, and all they care about is their unearned and undeserved stature. It’s all about them. Hatred, elitism, and disdain find their home on the left.


14 posted on 01/31/2025 2:20:01 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

as Rob Finnerty on Newsmax said, it’s time to stop letting the mainstream media create news and then spending all of our energy reacting to it. It’s time for the alternate media to report what’s happening honestly and fairly and ignore the alphasbet networks who nobody likes anyway.


15 posted on 01/31/2025 2:22:13 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Biblebelter
Karoline Leavitt's CV:

-PJ

16 posted on 01/31/2025 2:22:21 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: dfwgator

As Dan Bongino likes to say,
“Cutesy Time is over.”

These ‘journalists’ are sworn enemies of America. Treat them as such.


17 posted on 01/31/2025 2:23:00 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: bigbob

Finnerty is the best. Although I often get him confused with the other Rob just before him — Schmitt. They’re both good.


18 posted on 01/31/2025 2:24:24 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: bigbob

I loved Natalie’s comment about someone’s complaint about her sweater.

WH Press are just catty gossips.


19 posted on 01/31/2025 2:28:33 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Need to put some comments like this out there:

"What? My Goodness, Kaitlan, you guys at CNN stopped reporting a long time ago! Its almost like all you guys do any more "Gotcha" and "Agit-prop!"

20 posted on 01/31/2025 2:28:58 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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