WorldNetDaily’s Joe Kovacs helps a Fox Business host do some spin for Donald Trump in an Oct. 20 article:
Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday hammered the national news media for twisting remarks by former President Trump regarding potentially dangerous actions by the “enemy from within” on Election Day, wrongly insinuating that Trump would deploy the U.S. military against his political enemies.
“No surprise this week to see the media critique and misread my exclusive interview with President Trump last weekend when he responded to my question about whether outside agitators would emerge to create chaos on Election Day, should it appear that Trump was winning,” Bartiromo said on her “Sunday Morning Futures” broadcast.
“Instead, most media outlets cut out my question entirely to suggest Trump wanted the military to take down his political enemies.”
As WND reported last week, Bartiromo asked the ex-commander in chief if he expected chaos on Election Day this Nov. 5.
“No, not from the side that votes for Trump,” the Republican presidential nominee responded at the time.
Bartiromo continued: “But I’m just wondering if these outside agitators will start the up on Election Day. Let’s say you win. Let’s remember, you’ve got 50,000 Chinese nationals in this country in the last couple of years. There are people on the terrorist watch list, 350 in the last couple of years. Like you said, 13,000 murderers and 15,000 rapists. What are you expecting? Joe Biden said he doesn’t think it’s going to be a peaceful Election Day.”
Trump explained: “Well, he doesn’t have any idea what’s happening, he spends most of his day sleeping.
[…]“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within. Not even the people that have come in and are destroying our country. By the way, totally destroying our country, the towns, the villages, they’re being inundated.
“But I don’t think they’re the problem in terms of Election Day. I think the bigger problem are the the people from within.
“We have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics, and I think they’re … and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military. Because they can’t let that happen.”
Now, Bartiromo is slamming those who took Trump’s comments out of context.
“Following my interview,” she explained, “Democrats and many mainstream media outlets constructed their own political narrative without including the full context of the Q&A about outside agitators on Election Day. Among the media outlets that ran misleading headlines, NPR, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, many others.”
[…]An astonished Bartiromo noted: “Here I was specifically asking him about the idea of outside agitators coming out, creating chaos on Election Day should it appear that he was winning. And here, I mean, the media the did not even include my question.
But Bartiromo’s defense is nonsensical. “Outside agitators” can’t possibly be a reference to “the enemy within,” so it’s meaningless to claim that it’s essential context. There’s also no reason not to assume he wasn’t describing most Demorats as “radical left lunatics” who need to be arrested by the military — as a more credible news organization pointed out, Trump described Demoratic Rep. Adam Schiff as both a “lunatic” and “the enemy from within.” If he considered a mainstream liberal like Schiff to be an “enemy from within,” there’s no reason he wouldn’t consider any liberal that way. Indeed, he has made statements elsewhere in which he specifically called not only Schiff but Nancy Pelosi and “60 Minues” “the enemy within.”
Kovacs published only Bartiromo’s response and Eric Trump repeating right-wing talking points about his father; Kovacs made no attempt to ascertain the truth about the situation. That’s why WND is a pro-Trump propaganda rag and not a real media organization.