Tom Brokaw’s take on the 2016 presidential race.
Legendary NBC News Anchor Tom Brokaw blasted the media for its failure to report on the many lies being circulated by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Speaking on NBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, Brokaw discussed Trump’s ability to make the transition from the primaries to “the big stage,” the general election.
Brokaw responded that he found it “perplexing” that the big message coming from Democrats and Republicans alike is “We want you to get along. We want you to be able to talk together – get things done in Washington.”
“And for him to just punch out Paul Ryan the way he has; to have Sarah Palin to be saying that Paul Ryan has no career now that it’s over for him – It’s just astonishing to me when the big big lesson is when the country says ‘find a way to get together and find common ground on getting things done.'”
Speaking to the media coverage of the campaign, Brokaw noted that Trump “has never been held accountable” for his lies.
[Trump has] said some things that were just blatantly not true. He’s never been held accountable for it, so many of them, and the things that he’s said. Having said all of that, he did touch a big nerve out there and he ran a campaign that no one at this table or in the political world expected him to do as well as he has. But all factors in life are about how do you adjust to the reality of where you are next, how you’re going to deal with the next phase of this. And we’re now in the next phase. And if he keeps punching out the people in his own party in the way that he has, I don’t see how that’s going to help him. I just don’t.
And this isn’t the first time Brokaw has gone after Trump in recent months. Last September Brokaw told a cheering crowd that he would “call in sick” if he had to lead with Trump every day.
Then in December Brokaw returned to NBC News to present a powerful indictment against Donald Trump’s proposal that calls for a total ban on Muslims entering the United States under any circumstances, comparing his plan to Japanese internment, Nazi Germany, McCarthyism and Jim Crow.
You can watch him talking about the state of the 2016 presidential campaign beginning at 5 minutes, 44 seconds:
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