Former CNN anchor Piers Morgan claimed the media is not only banking on making money off of its oppositional coverage of President Trump, but hopes he tanks as a leader.
“What I don’t like is what looks like the combined will of many sections of the media to not just beat him up because they’re all making tons of money by beating him up,” Morgan told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I’ve got no problem with any of that, just be honest about why you’re doing it. You’re doing it to make money.
“Where I have a real problem is where it descends into a sense I’m getting of a will for him to fail. How does that help America if the combined will of many sections of the media is ‘we want this guy to fail and we are going to trash him every second of every day? We’re going to misrepresent, mischaracterize,’ in my view, ‘how monstrous he is.’ And the pure intent of that is for him to fail,” Morgan added.
Morgan, now editor-at-large of Daily Mail, argued Trump was the opposite of what some media outlets and reporters have made his character and administration out to be.
“I just find the characterization of him as some kind of monster, the new Hitler as I keep being told. A, it’s offensive to anyone who had to suffer from what Hitler did. B, he is not a monster, this is a guy who’s a very successful businessman,” Morgan said.
Hannity brought up a report that Putin and Trump decided “we’ll launch the minimal amount of chemical weapons” in Syria in order to “distract the media from the Trump-Putin conspiracy.”
Morgan called the report “utterly ridiculous.”
“We’re expected to believe that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin get together and they plan the mass murder of children to make some kind of point that their no longer best buddies. Really? Really? We think this a legitimate conspiracy theory?” Morgan asked. The exact report Hannity mentioned was unspecified.
