Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz argued that the transcript of President Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proves that the media’s reporting of the conversation was “largely accurate.”
The hotly debated phone call led to a whistleblower filing a complaint alleging Trump improperly pressured Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The transcript of the phone call was released on Wednesday, and it proved that the president did suggest Zelensky to look into his political rival.
Kurtz, the host of MediaBuzz, discussed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to launch a formal impeachment inquiry and the media’s coverage of the whistleblower’s complaint in an opinion piece published on the network’s website on Thursday.
“By any fair analysis, the transcript released yesterday of President Trump’s call with the Ukraine leader did not help his cause,” he wrote, and he then added that it was “not a partisan observation” because he’s “repeatedly said and written that the media coverage of Trump is relentlessly negative and often unfair.”
Kurtz went on, “But now that we have the transcript of the July call, it’s clear that the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reports were largely accurate. It was not, as the president said yesterday, a ‘nothing call.'”
The media analyst concluded by saying that Pelosi’s decision to begin a formal impeachment inquiry may backfire “since polls show that impeachment remains unpopular with a majority of the country.”
