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Now he’s got them pretending D.C. is safe. Even months into Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president, too many media folk still feel compelled to oppose him rather than report on him. One must either laugh or cry at the results as various Washingtonians in the press corps turn down yet another opportunity to practice journalism. Kristine Parks reports for Fox News: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough suggested that some liberal media figures blasting President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C. were not being entirely honest about their concerns over crime in the nation’s capital, on Tuesday’s “Morning Joe.” Scarborough said he found it “interesting” that some reporters critically covering the Trump takeover have privately expressed concerns about their own safety. “This is
interesting,” Scarborough said. “I actually heard from a reporter when this happened, going, ‘Well, you know, if he doesn’t overreach, this could actually be a good thing for quality of life,’ etc, because in DC right now, I had this happen to my family and I had that, and they go down the list. And then I saw him tweet something completely different.” The Journal’s Faith Bottum notes:
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