Several news networks cut off President Donald Trump on Thursday evening during a press conference regarding the election. MSNBC, NPR, CBS, and NBC did not let Trump finish his statement, which was laced with false claims regarding the election. These were his first remarks since his early morning post-Election Day speech on Wednesday, when he made misleading statements about the progress of vote counting.
As of reporting, Joe Biden leads both the electoral college and the popular vote over Trump. Votes from Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, Alaska and Arizona have yet to be called.
"Here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the President of the United States but correcting the President of the United States..." Brian Williams of MSNBC said.
MSNBC immediately cuts off Trump when he moves to undermine the integrity of US election system.
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A few users also noted that NPR cut off Trump's speech, such as political advisor Adam Parkhomenko.
"Trump is speaking now before the media. NPR cut off him off for a fact check. Unacceptable decision," Ralph Nader said. "I then scrolled through all the many commercial radio stations. They were not carrying Trump's remarks. Misusing our public airwaves, free."
NPR just cut off Trump — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 5, 2020
Trump is speaking now before the media. NPR cut off him off for a fact check. Unacceptable decision. I then scrolled through all the many commercial radio stations. They were not carrying Trump's remarks. Misusing our public airwaves, free. — Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) November 6, 2020
Others pointed out that ABC's David Muir also ended Trump's statement since "there is a lot to fact check."
David Muir cut Trump off on ABC too lol he is trying to explain what Trump is saying bc nobody gets
âThere is a lot to fact checkâ — Alex B. (@KnicksCentral) November 5, 2020
Additionally, NBC's Lester Holt cut off the president following "a number of false statements," one user tweeted. Another noted that Trump's appearance was cut short after he said "illegal votes."
Lester Holt on NBC just cut off Trumpâs presser after Trump made a ânumber of false statements.â Good! — Renée Graham ð³ï¸âð (@reneeygraham) November 5, 2020
MSNBC cut to Trump and as soon as he said âillegal votesâ Brian Williams came back and said ânope we arenât doing this.â and turned off his press conference.
WHERE WAS THAT THE LAST 4 YEARS? — Lindsey (@gehriggirl) November 5, 2020
CBS also cut off Trump, according to Michael Grynbaum of The New York Times. "The three major networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — have all cut away after Trump made false claims in an appearance at the White House," Grynbaum said.
"There are literally dozens of Republican observers in Philly where the absentee ballots are being counted. And it's being live streamed," David Becker of CBS also tweeted Thursday evening. "Philly election officials are welcoming all qualified observers, as are all PA counties and everywhere in the US."
The Big 3 broadcast networks -ABC CBS & NBC - have cut away from Trump's speech at the White House. — Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 5, 2020
There are literally dozens of Republican observers in Philly where the absentee ballots are being counted. And itâs being live streamed. Philly election officials are welcoming all qualified observers, as are all PA counties and everywhere in the US. — David Becker (@beckerdavidj) November 5, 2020
CNN, however, did not cut off the president. Following his speech, Anderson Cooper appeared shocked. He called the president an "obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over."
What did Anderson Cooper just say???? pic.twitter.com/JjsCEREe5U — philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 6, 2020
Trump's speech was full of misleading information about voter fraud and how the votes are being counted. "They're trying to rig an election. They're trying to steal an election," Trump told reporters, with no evidence to back up his claims.
"If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us, if you could the votes that came in late," Trump added during his briefing in the White House Press Room.
Updated 11/5/2020 7:50 p.m. EST: This article has been updated to provide further context.
PurplishPlatypus on November 6th, 2020 at 00:48 UTC »
As he was exiting (very slowly) the room, one reporter shouted "Are you being a sore loser, Mr. President?"
Edit: whoop, there it is --> https://youtu.be/La9kbhUtf4A .
It's a male. Someone said it's probably Acosta with CNN. (Ok, now everyone agrees it's Acosta).
WittsandGrit on November 6th, 2020 at 00:32 UTC »
I clicked over to Fox to watch it. When he finished and they cut away the anchors had that deer in headlights look as they sort of recapped what just happened and then the woman anchorssaid something like "well he said that he has lots and lots of evidence of fraud so he'll need to produce that evidence"
TheMightyBoushh on November 6th, 2020 at 00:31 UTC »
I’m so sick of looking at this orange fucking idiot.