CNN ‘You have normalized’ white supremacy with shoddy Trump reporting Says Soledad O’Brien

by | Sep 5, 2016 | News, Politics News | 0 comments

Former CNN host Soledad O’Brien had some harsh words for her ex-network. She blamed the network’s shoddy reporting and profiting off Donald Trump’s hate speech for normalizing white supremacy.

Talking with CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday she said:

“If you look at Hillary Clinton’s speech where she basically pointed out that what Donald Trump has done — actually quite well — has normalized white supremacy,”

“I think she made a very good argument, almost like a lawyer. Here is ways in which he has actually worked to normalize conversations that many people find hateful.”

“I’ve seen on-air, white supremacists being interviewed because they are Trump delegates,” she noted. “And they do a five minute segment, the first minute or so talking about what they believe as white supremacists. So you have normalized that.”

“And then Donald Trump will say, ‘Hillary Clinton, she’s a bigot.’ And it’s covered, the journalist part comes in, ‘They trade barbs. He said she’s a bigot and she points out that he might be appealing to racists.’ It only becomes ‘he said, she said.’ When in actuality, the fact that Donald Trump said she’s a bigot without the long laundry list of evidence, which if you looked at Hillary Clinton’s speech, she actually did have a lot of really good factual evidence that we would all agree that are things that have happened and do exist. They are treated as if they are equal.”

Her attack said it was the journalists failure. Watch the full interview below:

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