Newsmax loves to shower Donald Trump with editorial attention, lavishing numerous articles on a single speech of his, even though they are largely campaign rallies where he gives similar stump speeches and, thus, are not terribly newsworthy in and of themselves. This is what Newsmax lavished on Trump after a Jan. 27 rally in Las Vegas, which it made sure to note was “aired live on Newsmax and simulcast on the Newsmax2 online streaming platform”:
- Trump: I Will Send Texas Reinforcements, Not a Restraining Order
- Trump Insists Haley Can’t Beat Him or Biden
- Trump: Border Bill Isn’t Designed to Stop Immigration
- Trump: ‘Great Badge of Honor’ to Be ‘Indicted for You’
Newsmax served up even more Trump stenography on a Feb. 9 rally at an NRA gun show in Pennsylvania:
- Trump: If Biden’s Not Charged for Docs, ‘Then I Should Not Be Charged’
- Trump Hails ‘Bad’ Biden Border Bailout Is ‘Dead,’ for Now
- Trump to NRA: I’m ‘Only Thing Standing’ Against ‘Obliteration’ of 2nd Amendment
- Trump Vows to Fire ‘Radical Gun-Grabber Steve Dettelbach’
- Trump Vows to Undo Biden Gun Restrictions If Re-elected (wire article)
The stenography continued — somewhat — for a Feb. 10 rally in South Carolina:
- Trump: Biden ‘Will Be Tried by the Ballot Box’; ‘There’ll Be No Revenge’
- Trump: ‘We Crushed Crooked Joe Biden’s Disastrous Open Borders Bill’
- Trump Vows to End Free Foreign Aid: ‘Call It a Loan’
Then Trump went too far at the rally even Newsmax to countenance with mere stenography. Eric Mack — who had been doing of said stenography — had to go into cleanup mode, while still keeping a pro-Trump spin:
In remarks sure to raise the eyebrows of opportunistic media and political foes, former President Donald Trump pulled no punches Saturday against Republican primary rival Nikki Haley, even going as far as to ask “where’s her husband?”
Haley’s husband is voluntarily serving a year-long deployment for the U.S. National Guard in Africa, but Trump boldly went there Saturday in Conway, South Carolina, Haley’s home state.
“Where’s her husband?” Trump said in his speech that aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 streaming platform. “Oh, he’s away. He’s away.
“What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone. He knew.”
Haley shot back in an X post Saturday night, using an infamous – albeit disputed – attack on Trump being insensitive to service members.
“Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about,” Haley wrote in rebuke. “Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief.”
President Joe Biden recently attacked Trump for having called World War II victims “suckers” — a claim that Trump has long denied, but Haley has now repeated.
But, in this moment, Trump was assailing Haley’s lack of loyalty in not only not endorsing him for president but running against him and refusing to end her primary campaign against the longest of odds and poor polling numbers.
Mack then uncritically repeated other Trump attack lines against Haley, then parroted his campaign talking points: “Trump surrogates have been actively urging Haley to end her GOP primary campaign, because they allege she has no path to victory and will merely burn up finite Republican donor dollars before November’s general election.”