MSNBC’s Refusal to Air Trump’s Victory Speech After Iowa Win Portends Trend in Future Coverage: Legal Scholar

Television host Rachel Maddow in Washington in a file photograph. Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

MSNBC’s refusal to air former President Donald Trump’s victory speech and the media platform’s framing of his supporters as fascists serves as an omen of future election coverage, according to legal scholar Jonathan Turley.

Upon former President Trump’s victory at the Iowa Caucus, Rachel Maddow, MSNBC co-host, told her viewers that they would not air his speech because he speaks “untrue things.”