{"id":107273,"date":"2020-11-15T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107273"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:08:03","slug":"media-takes-heat-for-ignoring-violent-attacks-on-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107273","title":{"rendered":"Media takes heat for ignoring violent attacks on Trump supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-107274 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/maga-march-dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"195\" \/><br \/>\nMAGA March Washington DC Yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Mostly unreported, supporters of President Donald Trump protested the election results and marched to the Supreme Court. Later, nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators led to fistfights, at least one stabbing and more than 20 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media showed fights as pro-Trump demonstrators sparred with fascists demanding they take their MAGA hats and banners and leave.<\/p>\n<h3>Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said &#8216;media blackout&#8217; was &#8216;terrible&#8217; and &#8216;telling&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Evie Fordham<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservatives criticized members of the media for failing to cover violence against President Trump&#8217;s supporters at the so-called Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to hear Joe Biden and Kamala Harris condemn Antifa\/BLM criminals who assaulted and harassed peaceful demonstrators in DC today, including elderly and families,&#8221; political strategist Doug Stafford wrote on Twitter on Saturday. &#8220;Of course they won\u2019t. And &#8216;media&#8217; won\u2019t make them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watching video of people being assaulted and mobbed by BLM\/Antifa in DC tonight brings back awful memories. Want an example of media bias? When Rand Paul and I spoke out about our mob assault, the AP reported our claim was &#8216;without evidence&#8217; despite 10 minutes of video,&#8221; Paul&#8217;s wife Kelley Ashby Paul wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Pauls were surrounded by what the senator described as a &#8220;crazed mob&#8221; after the Republican National Convention in August.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said the &#8220;media blackout&#8221; was &#8220;terrible&#8221; and &#8220;telling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President\u2019s supporters have a right to peacefully rally supporting POTUS just like his opponents have that same right,&#8221; Zeldin wrote on Twitter. &#8220;The physical assaults today by violent leftists targeting his supporters is abhorrent. The near total media blackout of the violence is terrible&#8230; [and] telling.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And completely unsurprising. Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/media-coverage-million-maga-march-trump-conservatives-violent-antifa\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGA March Washington DC Yesterday Mostly unreported, supporters of President Donald Trump protested the election results &hellip; <a title=\"Media takes heat for ignoring violent attacks on Trump supporters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107273\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media takes heat for ignoring violent attacks on Trump supporters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,302,576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-antifa","category-blm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107275,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107273\/revisions\/107275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}