NBC News’ latest hire, Ronna McDaniel, defended her role in the fake election conspiracy and said she believes there were irregularities in the 2020 election.
McDaniel made it seem like the real victims were the Republicans who tried to overturn the 2020 election results in Michigan during his interview on Meet The Press.
Ronna McDaniel was asked whether she would pressure Michigan election officials not to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and whether she regretted her role.
McDaniel responded: “I regret that people are being threatened for doing their jobs in this country. I think it’s wrong to say I want a simple audit and for your family to be threatened, for your daughter to be threatened, your livelihood, for her to be threatened, for her to be called a racist. Go look at the transcripts and that’s the only thing that we can’t have a standard for Democratic and non-Republican election workers.
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Kristen Welker asked, “But in the end there were 250 audits. They never discovered there was corruption. Didn’t you have a responsibility, as chair of the RNC, to say this before January 6? The elections are not rigged and those lost by Donald Trump. Given that there were, it is given that there were more than 60 court cases of some sort across the country and that Donald Trump lost.”
Ronna McDaniel said there were problems with the 2020 election: “The reality is Joe Biden won. He is the president. He is the legitimate president. I have always said and continue to say that there were problems in 2020. I believe both things could be true. It can be said that enormous laws have been changed.”
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NBC News new hire Ronna McDaniel goes on Meet The Press and defends Trump’s help in his coup: “I regret that people are being threatened for doing their jobs in this country. I think it’s wrong to say I want a simple audit and have your family threatened. pic.twitter.com/eytRmigRY7
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 24, 2024
What Welker didn’t ask about is that McDaniel told the 1/6 Committee that she and the RNC provided intelligence gathering and support to Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
It’s clear that NBC News was trying to do a cleanup job and whitewash McDaniel’s role in Trump’s plot against democracy.
Even though NBC News abandoned its plan to feature McDaniel on MSNBC, it’s clear the network got what it wanted. Ronna McDaniel went on Meet The Press and supported Trump’s lies, defending the use of RNC donor money to pay Trump’s legal bills.
NBC News is paying and giving a national platform to Ronna McDaniel so she can undermine faith in democracy.
Comcast is free to hire anyone who wants to work at NBC/Universal, but viewers also have the freedom to not watch their coverage.
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