Mainstream Media Scream: Hurricane Harvey was Trump’s fault

Published August 29, 2017 9:23pm ET



This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features a New York Times reporter who concludes that Hurricane Harvey, storming through the Gulf Coast, is hurting President Trump’s supporters and that he isn’t helping them in avoiding climate change policies.

On MSNBC Monday, Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor discussed her story where she wrote, for example, that the “unleashing of the fossil energy sector that Mr. Trump has championed could have repercussions more immediate than the global climate. In Houston, predominantly African-American neighborhoods like Sunnyside and Pleasantville have been dealing with pollution from the energy sector for years.”

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