Posted on 02/28/2018 10:58:53 PM PST by familyop
In a nationally televised negotiation with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House Wednesday, President Trump appeared to back many liberal gun control proposals much to the delight of the liberal media. During their evening broadcasts ABC, CBS, and NBC touted how the President “stood up to the National Rifle Association” and pushed back against Republicans.
The report on NBC Nightly News was arguably the most vicious against gun rights advocates. “Under pressure after Parkland, President Trump taking on his own party and the National Rifle Association today,” hyped White House correspondent Kristen Welker. “Mr. Trump, at a freewheeling hour-long meeting with a group of bipartisan lawmakers, trying to get something, anything done, appeared to embrace nearly everything he heard in the meeting[.]”
Welker noted that Trump wanted to “confiscat[e] guns from those deemed dangerous,” but slimed folks on the right by insinuating they didn’t care who had weapons, saying “a move opposed by many conservatives.” She then played a clip of Trump arguing that government should “take the guns first, go through due process second,” but she failed to mention such an act was unconstitutional.
“Even taking on red-state Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey for not including an age limit increase in their background check bill,” Welker reported with glee. And she seemed impressed that Trump “even push[ed] back against fellow Republican Steve Scalise, shot and nearly killed during a baseball practice last summer.”
On ABC’s World News Tonight, they seemed ecstatic. “He was sitting with Republicans and Democrats on guns and school safety, saying he supports what many of the Democrats support, universal background checks, among other things, pushed by the students and families in Parkland, Florida,” announced anchor David Muir as he led into the report by Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl.
Karl was brimming with energy as he was delivering his report: “Before the television cameras at the White House, the most pro-NRA President in history gathered together a group including some of Congress's most forceful advocates of gun control.” “And sitting in that room, the President repeatedly took positions that put himself at odds with the NRA and Republican leaders in Congress,” he added.
The ABC reporter also boasted about how Trump appeared to opposed Vice President Pence in wanting to “take the guns first, go through due process second.” He too failed to mention the illegality of the move. “The President told the bipartisan group, he wants more than action. He wants bold action. A comprehensive bill on guns and school safety,” he exclaimed.
Meanwhile, on CBS Evening News, Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes was the only one to note that what Trump wanted would be “skirting the law.”
But CBS promoted Trump’s apparent gun control push, with anchor Jeff Glor stating: “The President gathered members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, at the White House today and said, it's time to end the nonsense and do something about gun violence.” “President Trump scrambled the partisan divide on guns today, siding with Democrats on dramatically expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for semi-automatic weapons,” Cordes added.
The liberal media are such big anti-gun advocates that they appear to be willing to side with Trump to push their agenda.
The relevant parts of the transcripts are below, expand to read each one:
NBC Nightly News
February 28, 2018
7:04:14 PM Eastern [1 minute 42 seconds]
LESTER HOLT: And two weeks after the mass shooting at a Florida high school, the President stood up to the National Rifle Association today. At least on some points. As he met with members of Congress from both parties, Mr. Trump appeared to embrace new gun restrictions as he told them to come up with legislation aimed at preventing more school shootings. NBC's Kristen Welker now with that story.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN WELKER: Under pressure after Parkland, President Trump taking on his own party and the National Rifle Association today.
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WELKER: Mr. Trump, at a freewheeling hour-long meeting with a group of bipartisan lawmakers, trying to get something, anything done, appeared to embrace nearly everything he heard in the meeting from confiscating guns from those deemed dangerous, a move opposed by many conservatives.
DONALD TRUMP: Take the guns first, go through due process second.
WELKER: And embracing long-held Democratic ideas like universal background checks, and increasing the minimum age to 21 to buy some weapons. Even taking on red-state Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey for not including an age limit increase in their background check bill.
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WELKER: At times, Wheeling and dealing in real-time.
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WELKER: Even pushing back against fellow Republican Steve Scalise, shot and nearly killed during a baseball practice last summer, when Scalise suggested adding a measure involving a concealed weapons permit to a bill aimed at strengthening background checks.
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ABC
World News Tonight
February 28, 2018
6:35:15 PM Eastern [2 minutes 45 seconds]
DAVID MUIR: As you know, the other firestorm tonight, Republicans reacting at this hour to what they saw from the President today at the White House. He was sitting with Republicans and Democrats on guns and school safety, saying he supports what many of the Democrats support, universal background checks, among other things, pushed by the students and families in Parkland, Florida. But tonight, many in his own party are now livid. ABC's Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
[Cuts to video]
JON KARL: Before the television cameras at the White House, the most pro-NRA President in history gathered together a group including some of Congress's most forceful advocates of gun control.
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KARL: And sitting in that room, the President repeatedly took positions that put himself at odds with the NRA and Republican leaders in Congress. He embraced Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy's call for background checks on all gun purchases. An idea Republicans have voted down again and again.
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KARL: Trump even seemed to oppose his own vice president on how to take guns from someone identified as a possible threat.
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KARL: And the President brought up an idea the NRA says it firmly opposes: raising the age to buy assault weapons, like the AR-15 used in the Parkland shooting, to 21 years old.
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KARL: The President told the bipartisan group, he wants more than action. He wants bold action. A comprehensive bill on guns and school safety. He told one Republican leader to put aside a controversial pro-gun measure and to concentrate on something Democrats will support.
(…)
CBS Evening News
February 28, 2018
6:34:41 PM Eastern [1 minute 7 seconds]
JEFF GLOR: The President gathered members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, at the White House today and said, it's time to end the nonsense and do something about gun violence. Here's Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes.
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: I'm not into popularity. I'm into getting something done that's good.
NANCY CORDES: President Trump scrambled the partisan divide on guns today, siding with Democrats on dramatically expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for semi-automatic weapons.
TRUMP: It doesn't make sense that I have to wait until I'm 21 to get handgun, but I can get this weapon at 18. Just curious as to what you did in your bill?
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CORDES: President Trump also clashed with Republicans, including recent shoot shooting victim Steve Scalise when they argued gun owners need the right the carry concealed weapons across state lines.
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CORDES: Those weapons, he argued, should have been confiscated from the Florida shooter, even if it meant skirting the law.
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He directly attaked the NRA. He’s showing his NYC values.
Its the TOP story .
Trump joined the destroy the NRA Mob .
He betrays his base ,
Bye Bye Midterms .
Perfect negotiation... We “might” do this or that....but a bill for abating gun free zones IS coming. Dems and the news media are taking the bait. The media “goes” with his throw out bid amplifying its supposed importance. And in “befriending him on gun issues”..they will be forced to vote for something they would not otherwise vote for. It is fun to watch. Even more fun is watching the media react and play HIS game. I’ve never seen anybody play this game better
“I am sick of the spin”
That’s ok. I’ve been sick of you never-trump people for going on 2 years now.
After President Trump’s 2nd term is over & you’ve wiped several gross worth of egg off your face...
He's doing what the Israelis do: they keep offering the "Palestinians" a two-state solution because they know the answer will always be no.
The Dems would rather keep the issue alive so they can use it for the 2018 elections.
You still won't directly respond to his comments !
Why did he attack the NRA .?
Why does he gun grab for Under 21 hunters ?
Stop with the cliche attacks .
You sound like a paid astroturfer.
The First Amendment is a foundational freedom. Without it, we don’t have any of the others.
The Second Amendment is the bodyguard of the First, and thereby of all the other freedoms.
“I never have been a Never Trumper .”
You bitch & moan like one & have done so to my knowledge since candidate Trump won the nomination.
“You still won’t directly respond to his comments !”
Ah, what a lovely fallacy. As I stated previously, President Trump’s comments are just another example of his brilliance. With that statement, he destroys the narrative that he’s in the NRA’s pocket for 2020. He also AGAIN sets the RATs up to show they don’t give a rats damn about protecting the public & it looks like they’re taking the bait (just as you have) again.
Since you are unable or unwilling to see what is plainly before you there’s not much point in continuing this discussion.
“Stop with the cliche attacks .”
Poor baby. Better get Mommy to look at that boo-boo.
“You sound like a paid astroturfer.”
Too funny. It’s like the 2016 Primaries all over again. Some people just cannot learn & other don’t want to learn. I used to think that was just a progressive affliction but after dealing with you this morning I’m starting too think it’s just a general human failing for some.
I try to stay away from the news except when I’m forced to watch it at the gym. When I saw that news conference, I was going back and forth between FNC and CNN, and the coverage differences were stark.
That aside, while I appreciate Trump’s aplomb, I’m still very sensitive to this stuff. I know too many cops who would comply with an unlawful order to disarm Americans, and if there’s support from the top, I would genuinely fear for my life. That’s no way to live.
you should know trump at this meeting skillfully destroyed a piece of gun control legislation that was going to happen... remember when he told Dian Feinstein that by his order he could regulate the bump stock situation....that bill was going to become law whether trump supported it or not now it is just a executive order and he never said what shape the order would happen in...I can imagine that it could be as simple as that you cant sell a gun that has this modification. but owning it is legal... before with Feinstein’s bill it would of been jail time with this modification. also this order lasts until he changes it or some one else gets in office where if Feinstein’s bill passed we would be stuck with it
Good to hear. You can't deal with leftists. If Trump were ever to sell his soul to them, as so many RINOs do, they'd go right back to hating him in the very next instant, only he'd have garnered the hatred of Conservatives, too.
Really, nobody should take satisfaction in being "liked" by the MSM anymore than one should feel pleased about earning their first dollar from turning a trick in a truckstop bathroom stall.
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