While Newsmax was letting Trump apologists rage about his being on trial, it was also continuing to lavish its usual uncritical stenography of Trump’s rallies being held when he wasn’t in the courtroom. Michael Katz served up one such article after a May 1 rally in Wisconsin:
Former President Donald Trump focused on the economic failures of the Biden administration during his campaign stop in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.
It was his first campaign appearance on a weekday outside of New York since his criminal trial over allegedly falsifying business records to cover a $130,00 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels began April 15.
“When I’m in the White House, the Biden economic bust will quickly be replaced by the Trump economic boom,” Trump said to a raucous crowd at the Waukesha County Expo Center.
Katz didn’t bother to fact-check anything Trump said — he was in pure stenography mode. Katz and Eric Mack served up more stenography about the rally as well as another one that day at a Michigan airport:
- Trump: ‘Ultimate Verdict on This Travesty’ Will ‘Come at Ballot Box’
- Trump: ‘Take the Radicalism Out From the Democrats’ on Abortion
- Trump Vows ‘Great Iron Dome,’ ‘Bring the World Glorious New Peace’
Before that, Katz wrote an April 24 article promoting the rallies, touting that it would be “the first time Trump has traveled out of New York on a weekday for a campaign event since his trial on charges of falsifying business records to cover a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels began on April 15.”
A week or so later, Mack cranked out more stenography for a Trump rally in New Jersey:
- Trump in Long Blue New Jersey: ‘We’re Expanding the Electoral Map’
- Trump: I’m ‘Going to Be Indicted Into the White House’
- Trump on ‘Antisemites’ Funding Biden, Dems: ‘Return the Money, Joe’
Mack didn’t fact-check any of Trump’s claims, but he made sure to point out that the rally “aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 streaming platform.”
The following weekend, it was stenography time again for Mack as he touted Trump’s appearance at the National Rifle Association convention:
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accepted the endorsement of the National Rifle Association at the NRA Leadership Forum in Dallas on Saturday afternoon.
“It’s a true honor to be here today to receive the endorsement of the proud American patriots at the NRA,” Trump told the forum in a speech that aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 streaming platform. “These are great patriots. These are great people, and we’re going to do things like nobody can believe.
“We’re going to win this election at levels that nobody’s ever seen before. Thank you very much for that endorsement — means a lot to me.”
Trump denounced the Democrats, saying they put the Second Amendment “under siege.”
Mack served up even more stenography:
- RNC, Trump Campaign Launch ‘Gun Owners for Trump’
- Trump: ‘Our Constitution Is Being Run Through the Shredder’
Despite his employer having devoted numerous articles to Trump’s campaign activities during the trial, the apparently unironically named Charlie McCarthy gave Trump a May 20 article to whine that the trial was keeping him from campaigning:
Former President Donald Trump on Monday apologized to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for not being able to campaign in those states due to his criminal trial in New York City.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, addressed reporters Monday morning before the trial resumed in Manhattan.
“I’m here instead of campaigning,” Trump said in remarks that aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 online streaming platform. “As you know, I was supposed to be in a very different state this morning. And the judge actually decided to call it [the trial to resume] early. And yet it looks like we’re going to have a very big gap between days, and it’s going to be determined right now in court.
McCarthy didn’t disclose that over the previous few weeks, Trump had in fact been campaigning in Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Texas. But that would have proven Trump wrong, and Newsmax is not in the business of doing that.