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Here Are the BEST Trump Smackdowns of Journalists at COVID Briefings

Curtis Houck and Bill D'Agostino
May 1st, 2020 10:30 AM
News reports percolated last week that formal White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings could go away or see a dramatic overhaul. Instead of showing seriousness and sobriety during this pandemic, camera-hawking, far-left egotists picked fights with President Donald Trump only to cry foul afterward to sympathetic colleagues. MRC analysts combed through our archives of the briefings to resurrect…
 
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Keep America Miserable: CBS Scoffs at Thought of Economy Improving

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 30th, 2020 12:13 AM
While Wednesday’s CBS Evening News was the only broadcast newscast to report on the stock market’s rally following a breakthrough with coronavirus-fighting drug Remdesivir, they threw cold water on anyone who dared to have hopeful thoughts about the economy improving.
 
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Nets Give Pence Not Wearing Mask 3x More Coverage Than Biden Scandal

Curtis Houck
April 29th, 2020 7:29 PM

The liberal media have shown an aversion to covering Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. But when it came to Vice President Mike Pence not wearing a mask Tuesday at the Mayo Clinic, the same liberal networks were decided it was a scandal worthy of their attention, giving it three times more airtime in 24 hours compared than they…

 
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CBS’s Jiang Parrots Unnamed Dem Calling Trump ‘Insane and Criminal’

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 20th, 2020 9:22 PM
CBS White House correspondent Weijia Jiang was on a crusade to take down President Trump and politicize the coronavirus crisis in the process. As NewsBusters as documented over recent weeks, she has been out of control: getting into repeated shouting matches with the President, decry his messages of hope, and directly claimed blood was on his hands. She flaunted her animus again on Monday when…
 
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Trump Trashes CBS’s Jiang, ‘Pathetic’ Jeremy Diamond of ‘Terrible’ CNN

Curtis Houck
April 20th, 2020 1:59 AM
During Sunday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump clashed with two usual suspects in CBS’s Weijia Jiang and CNN’s Jeremy Diamond after loaded, snarky questions on behalf of their fellow liberal media firefighters, acting with supposed bravery and perseverance. Things ended poorly for both with the former being told to be “relax” and stop shouting and the latter being…
 
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Harbingers of DOOM: CBS Decries Trump’s Messages of HOPE in Crisis

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 6th, 2020 9:01 PM
President Trump drew the ire of CBS Evening News and White House correspondent Weijia Jiang on Monday for daring to keep American spirits up, and letting them know there was “light at the end of the tunnel.” Citing unnamed “experts,” Jiang decried Trump’s optimism by claiming the country wasn’t even in the tunnel yet.
 
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Friday Night (Briefing Room) Fights: Trump Spars with Acosta, Jiang

Curtis Houck
April 3rd, 2020 9:14 PM
With the grave coronavirus pandemic worsening this week, the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings have been far more sobering and less combative than past episodes. Sunday and Monday featured fireworks, but it wasn’t until Friday’s that tensions resurfaced as President Trump squared off in two exchanges with CNN’s Jim Acosta and CBS’s Weijia Jiang.
 
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CBS: Trump 'Acted too Late,' Left Us 'Unprepared,' and 'Costing Lives'

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 1st, 2020 9:13 PM

Despite the fact President Trump had banned flights from China from entering the U.S. back in January (a move praised by Dr. Anthony Fauci as crucial to the fight against the coronavirus), the CBS Evening News and White House correspondent Weijia Jiang spent a portion of Wednesday’s program pushing suggestions the administration had acted too slowly and it was costing American lives.

 
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NBC Claims 100-240K Dead Is Trump’s ‘Best-Case Scenario’ for Country

Nicholas Fondacaro
March 31st, 2020 9:03 PM

The liberal media’s fear-mongering has gotten out of control. Watchers of Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News were given the impression that the Trump administration was content with anywhere between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans dying to the coronavirus in the next few weeks. That’s because correspondent Geoff Bennett flagrantly lied and claimed that projection was their “best-case scenario.” In…

 
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NBC & CBS Lecture ‘Racist’ Trump About ‘Chinese Virus’

Kyle Drennen
March 19th, 2020 10:54 AM
On Thursday, the NBC and CBS morning shows kept pushing the narrative that President Trump’s use of the phrase “Chinese virus” was “racist” and endangering people. NBC even attempted to claim that China “helped” the rest of the world by “delaying” the spread of coronavirus.
 
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CBS to Trump at Press Conference: ‘Are You Being Selfish?’

Scott Whitlock
March 13th, 2020 5:25 PM
Donald Trump declared a state of emergency on Friday at a White House press conference detailing the ongoing efforts to combat the Coronavirus. After speaking and sharing the stage with doctors and leaders in the economy, CBS News journalist Weijia Jiang wondered if the President was being “selfish” for not immediately taking a COVID-19 test. 
 
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CBS: Trump’s Address Is ‘Damage Control,’ Needs More Than ‘Just Words’

Nicholas Fondacaro
March 11th, 2020 8:35 PM
Wednesday night would be only the second time in his presidency that Donald Trump would deliver an address to the nation with the full weight of the Oval Office around him. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., CBS Evening News dismissed it as just an attempt at “damage control” for the administration’s image. They also elevated the screeching of raging House…
 
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Nets Boost Barr-Must-Go Letter From People Unmoved By Lies to Spy

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 17th, 2020 9:38 PM
In their self-righteous letter calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign Monday, over 2,000 former Justice Department officials claimed he interfered with “the fair administration of justice,” by recommending a reduced prison sentence for Roger Stone. But there was no such letter when the DOJ inspector general found that the FBI had lied to the FISA Court in order to obtain warrants to spy…
 
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Impeachment Obsessed: NBC Ignored Trump Signing USMCA Trade Deal

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 29th, 2020 9:17 PM

In a celebration on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, President Trump gathered with blue-collar workers, union leaders, CEOs, and Republican lawmakers to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal into law. It was a hard-fought campaign promise three years in the making that helped many Americans, but NBC Nightly News didn’t think it was noteworthy as they…