U-S Media Covered Russian-Organized Anti-Trump Protests

Michael Moore

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement Monday responding to the media’s coverage of a 2016 post-election anti-Trump rally which was recently revealed to have been organized by Russians.

On Friday, an indictment filing signed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed Russians allegedly staged both pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies with intent to sow discord in the United States. According to NewsBusters, CNN and MSNBC both heavily covered the November 12th anti-Trump event – celebrating the protest as “a love rally.”

MRC President Brent Bozell:

The liberal media have become predictable, “useful idiots” who rush to cover anything remotely anti-Trump. Sadly, they played right into the Russians hands – hook, line and sinker. The media have spent endless hours covering an alleged “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign. Now we find they had been touting a Russian-sponsored anti-Trump rally as a “unique” “love rally.” Both CNN and MSNBC gave hourly updates on the protest, all the while giving exposure to an event solely intended to sow discord in America. The national news media are truly a national embarrassment.

Michael Moore, the polemical filmmaker who has long accused President Trump of colluding with Russians, posted videos and pictures of himself participating in a protest in Manhattan that was allegedly organized by Russians in November 2016.

According to Fox News, prosecutors said Friday that the Russians indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign were also behind anti-Trump rallies that occured after the election.

The government alleged in an indictment signed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that the defendants organized a Nov. 12 “Trump is NOT my President” rally in New York. Their “strategic goal” was to “sow discord in the U.S. political system,” the indictment said.


On Nov. 12, Moore tweeted: "At today's Trump Tower protest. He wouldn't come down."

Moore also posted a lengthy video on Facebook Nov. 12, in which he joined the protest and debated voters at Trump Tower.

Approximately 25,000 protesters turned out in New York on Nov. 12, chanting slogans rejecting the then-president-elect, NBC News reported at the time, citing New York Police Department officials.