“The Amazon Washington Post did a story that I brought racist attacks against the ‘Squad.’ No, they brought racist attacks against our Nation,” he wrote. “All I do is call them out for the horrible things they have said. The Democrats have become the Party of the Squad!”
Trump also went on to criticize the mainstream media as a whole.
“The LameStream Media has gone totally CRAZY! They write whatever they want, seldom have sources (even though they say they do), never do ‘fact-checking’ anymore, and are only looking for the ‘kill,’” he wrote.
“They are now beyond Fake, they are Corrupt... the good news is that we are winning. Our real opponent is not the Democrats, or the dwindling number of Republicans that lost their way and got left behind, our primary opponent is the Fake News Media.”
Since as far back as 2016, Trump has increasingly called out The Washington Post, along with its owner, Jeff Bezos, for posting what he says is biased and incorrect stories about him.
The exposé on The Post began with Dan Lamothe, a national security reporter at the paper, telling an undercover reporter that there are two camps at the news outlet when it comes to political coverage.
On the news side, he said, the reporters are typically trying to be critical of Trump, but “also give him credit where there’s credit.” Yet, on the editorial side, he said, the “Washington Post institutional voice” has a strong and open bias against him.
“Those have become critical to the point where I’ll read some of them and I’m like whoa! Like I work for this place?” Lamothe says in the undercover video.
He said while some journalists on the news side are still covering the news, the editorial side of the Washington Post is “trying to, like, educate people but with a point of view.”
Trump has regularly been critical and mistrusting of the mainstream media’s portrayal of him and his administration.
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