As former President Donald Trump stepped to the podium to declare victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interrupted her network’s live coverage and analysis—not to take viewers to the Trump speech in Des Moines, but according to Forbes, to explain why they wouldn’t be seeing the speech at all.
“The projected winner of the Iowa caucuses has just started giving his victory speech,” Maddow said. “We will keep an eye on that as it happens, we will let you know if there’s any news made in that speech, anything noteworthy, anything substantive and important. The reason I’m saying this is, there’s a reason we and other news organizations have stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to former President Trump.”
“His remarks will not air here live.” MSNBC refuses to air Trump’s Iowa victory speech because he lies too much. (Video: MSNBC) pic.twitter.com/it9M814jHK
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“It is not out of spite,” Maddow said, “it is not a decision that we relish, it is a decision that we regularly revisit, and honestly, earnestly, it is not an easy decision. But there is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things.”
“His remarks will not air here live,” Maddow said.
Other networks did carry the Trump speech, including CNN, which opted to cut the speech short and return to analysis. CNN’s Jake Tapper followed up the Trump speech by noting that a striking entrance poll in Iowa found a majority of Republicans did not believe that President Biden had been legitimately elected.
“It’s a false belief, but it shows the degree to which Trump has remade and refashioned the Republican Party in his image, not only with new Republican voters, but also by convincing Republicans of his ideology even when empirically false.”
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