Cable-News Anchors All Unload on Trump for Declaring Premature Victory
When President Donald Trump tweeted “We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the election,” early Wednesday morning, Twitter hid the message from users and instead showed the warning, “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
And yet when Trump took the podium in the East Room of the White House after 2 a.m. to deliver those same, fact-free premature declarations of victory, every major TV news network carried his comments live.
Even before the president started speaking, CNN anchor Jake Tapper warned: “Counting every vote is a fundamental democratic principle. It is part of what is important when it comes to democracy in this country,” adding, “The idea that the president is looking to disenfranchise people, tens of thousands of whom no doubt voted for him, is just remarkable.”