CNN's Laura Coates passionately explained why mortgage fraud is not a victimless crime (when it was Trump being prosecuted for it).
CNN's Laura Coates also explained why mortgage fraud is a victimless crime (when it was Letitia James being prosecuted for it).
This is CNN.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico are melting down because they’ve had to report from outside the White House for one day.
I couldn’t get access to cover President Biden or even the 2024 DNC. Neither could many of my peers in independent media. We pay our own way. We don’t have billion-dollar corporations backing us. Where was the outrage then?
And when President Trump, RFK Jr. and other conservatives were deplatformed, much of the mainstream media laughed and celebrated. They weren’t screaming about an attack on free speech when we were silenced.
President Trump has opened the White House to independent journalists, podcasters and new-media voices who were shut out before. He’s the most transparent President we’ve had.
I’m a free-speech absolutist. I believe in a free press. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to run into the Oval Office, scream and yell at the President, and then expect to face no consequences for printing lies or slanderous claims.
CNN and MSNBC reporters burst into tears outside the White House gate after being banned.
Here’s 3 reason why their tears mean nothing…
1. Biden already banned hundreds of reporters — mostly center-right — and barely took questions. CNN and MSNBC said nothing.
2. Theses same reporters cheered and danced like goblins when Trump was banned from YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and then debanked. Free speech only matters when THEY are under attack.
3. These news channels never aired Trump’s rallies live. They clipped him, talked over him, and sneered while depriving their viewers of the Presidents voice. Hard to argue now they need access to Trump.
BONUS: Freedom of speech is not freedom of access. The First Amendment argument collapses when you understand the limiting principles of these people.
They can keep lying from the sidewalk.
Look what I found.
In October 2009, David Axelrod, senior adviser to the Obama administration, argued on ABC News that Fox News was not a “real news organization.” The Obama White House later excluded Fox News from a pool interview with Treasury official Kenneth Feinberg and denied that there had been an effort to exclude Fox.
But in 2011, after Judicial Watch obtained emails, the documents showed that the Obama administration had, in fact, specifically asked that Fox News be excluded from the interview pool.
Just remember: the rules are for thee, not for me.
🚨 WE ARE WATCHING AN EXTRAORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL BATTLE OVER PERCEPTION.
Turn on the media and you'd think EVERYTHING is dramatically worse under President Trump.
Then look at the numbers.
Compared with the same stage of Biden's presidency, the figures being circulated show:
INFLATION
🟦 Biden: +12.3%
🟥 Trump: +4.3%
GROCERIES
🟦 Biden: +15.8%
🟥 Trump: +3.3%
GAS
🟦 Biden: +69%
🟥 Trump: +12%
RENT
🟦 Biden: +7.7%
🟥 Trump: +4.5%
ELECTRICITY
🟦 Biden: +19.1%
🟥 Trump: +8.4%
NEW & USED CARS
🟦 Biden: +23.9%
🟥 Trump: −1.2%
That doesn't mean Americans aren't feeling real affordability pressure. They ARE.
But during Biden's term, I REMEMBER the media making it feel like everything was fine but the opposite was felt by Americans in the real world.
Today, it seems to be the opposite. People's conditions are improving but the perception is that life is worse.
That's exactly why you have to separate how people feel, what they're being told, and what the underlying data actually show.
We're heading toward the 2026 midterms.
QUESTION EVERYTHING. CHECK THE NUMBERS YOURSELF. 🇺🇸