In a stunning display of profound detachment from reality, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken to the Senate floor to propagate a bizarre and baseless conspiracy theory, alleging that the Trump administration is being “shielded” by an overwhelmingly hostile press corps. This delusional accusation stands as a testament to the left’s inability to comprehend a media landscape that is not universally fawning, and their visceral panic at the emergence of even a single conservative voice to challenge their narrative monopoly.
Schumer’s rambling remarks, steeped in the hyperbolic and fear-mongering language that has become the hallmark of the modern Democratic Party, attempted to paint a picture of an authoritarian crackdown. He fearfully referenced the fact that “they’re getting some of their friends to take over some of our media companies,” a clear sign of the left’s terror at the prospect of a single platform not dedicated to the relentless persecution of President Donald J. Trump and his supporters. The notion that a conservative acquisition of a media outlet constitutes a threat to democracy, while the monolithic, left-wing orientation of 99 percent of the press is considered the natural order, reveals the staggering hypocrisy at play.
The Senate Democrat leader then posed a series of hysterical, leading questions, asking, “isn’t one of the greatest blows to democracy — I would ask my colleague — one of the greatest blows to democracy when we don’t have a fully free press? And has it been a hallmark of so many of the countries that he has mentioned that are autocracies or absolute dictatorships to have no free press, so no information can come out?” This line of questioning is not just absurd; it is a deliberate and cynical inversion of the truth. For the past eight years, it has been the “fully free press” Schumer venerates that has acted as an unaccountable arm of the Democratic Party, running interference for the Biden family’s corruption, spying on the Trump campaign, and relentlessly pushing the Russia collusion hoax.
Chuck Schumer says it should "frighten every American" when a presidential administration is shielded by the press.
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Schumer’s most laughable claim, one that defies the lived experience of every American who has witnessed the media’s non-stop assault on the 45th President, was his insinuation that the government is being protected from scrutiny. He asked, “doesn’t that dramatically hurt the American people, when government is shielded and can do whatever it wants — and hurt as many people as it wants — because you don’t have a free press?” The reality is that the Trump administration was the most investigated, most lied about, and most transparently persecuted government in American history, all under the bright, unblinking glare of a press corps that acted as judge, jury, and executioner. The idea that this same press was “shielding” President Trump is a fantasy that could only be believed by someone like Schumer, who confuses a free press with a state-aligned propaganda arm that serves only one political party.