Carl Bernstein says there is a growing recognition that Donald Trump is a con man who has presided over a cover-up of his life.
Legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein ripped the media regarding their coverage of Republican nominee Donald Trump during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
Asked by host Brian Stelter whether Hillary Clinton had “fully recovered in a media and political sense” from her near collapse of a week ago, Bernstein replied that “there is a much larger question about the overall coverage of this campaign,” the lack of adequate coverage of “Trump’s life and record.”
Bernstein went on to state that while the media has “been terrific” at giving “equal time to debate panels,” they have “been positively awful in terms of reporting in a coherent way the biggest story of this campaign, the real existing life and record of Donald Trump.”
Noting that “The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal have done fabulous of reporting “snippets of this,” he went on to state that the media should be dedicating “an hour, two hours a night of real biography, running it over and over of what Trump’s life and record have been about because they’re at absolute odds with the mythical and lying story that he has told us.”
“He’s a con man,” Bernstein stated, adding, “It’s been established. And also he has presided over a cover up of his own life. And we have allowed it in cable news and network news particularly.”
Stelter followed up by asking if there was “a visceral hatred of Trump” among journalists that was “seeping through” their coverage of his campaign.
Bernstein replied that he “wouldn’t call it hatred,” rather that “there is a realization” among both liberals and conservative journalists,” that Trump is a con man.”
Bernstein goes on to report that, while we know “every position and record” in Clinton’s life, “Trump is different.”
“He’s a new kid on the block in terms of being in a presidential campaign,” Bernstein continued. “We need to do what the Washington Post and The New York Times and the other print press or old fashioned media has done, which is to report the real existing record repeatedly. That is the story here.”
He went to explain that this is “where the Clinton campaign has a really good beef against the media,” that they ” have allowed Donald Trump to play us like this and we focus on his outrageous statements which we do every day and we give equal time to those on his side and Hillary’s side debating these crazy statements and positions that he changes every day.”
“And we analyze that, but do we go back and look at his whole business record? No. We don’t. How about a real investigative biography on MSNBC, on CNN that runs every night about Donald Trump and about Hillary Clinton, about their two lives? Put them side by side and run it every night until the debates.”
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