FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/PROTESTS: “[T]he media is part of the problem, because they don’t report the news the way it is. They don’t report it. They make it look like these are wonderful people. I watched New York. I watched them burning storefronts and going crazy.
I watched — in Minneapolis, we have this guy from CNN with his camera. The — the city was burning behind him. And he’s talking about, ‘What a lovely group of protesters.’ It’s — it’s really — it’s really disgraceful. It’s — the media is a big — I call it the ‘opposition party.’ The media is a big part of the problem. They’re — really, the fake news. It’s a big part. They don’t report it. Because it’s common sense. It’s so simple to understand.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with the National Association of Police Organizations Leadership,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020