This week’s Liberal Media Scream features another hit on President Trump by a CNN contributor, who charged that he has started a “race war in America.”
April Ryan, long the Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and a CNN contributor, made the claim on the cable network Sunday while discussing the violence in cities where Black Lives Matter organizers are marching.
On CNN, Ryan, whose latest book was Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House, said that “people are now afraid of this president because he has stoked the racial flames. And let’s call the thing a thing: He has now begun a race war in America in 2020.”
Ryan in the 5 p.m. hour of CNN Newsroom on Sunday, Aug. 30:
“Let’s call a thing a thing. This president, Donald John Trump, has instigated a race war in America. Portland, Oregon, is ground zero. This president, Donald John Trump, has basically stoked the flames for racist extremists, neo-Nazis, and the ‘alt-right.’ And they’re even defending — this president is even defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who went into Wisconsin and killed two protesters. So, at the end of the day, the mayor of Portland is absolutely right. And there are those who are calling for help from this president and the stoking of a race war. There is a race war in America right now because of this president. People are calling me, asking if there indeed is a way to get the international crimes court to come in to deal with this. You know, I’ve talked to some people who are in intelligence, and they’re saying he’s done heinous things, but they have to see. We don’t know for sure. But people are now afraid of this president because he has stoked the racial flames. And let’s call the thing a thing: He has now begun a race war in America in 2020.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “After journalists like Ryan have spent years smearing Republicans and conservatives as racists, it takes quite a bit of chutzpah, days after the Republican convention featured numerous black speakers, to see President Trump as the instigator of a race war. No one has done more to fuel racial rancor over the past four years than the Washington press corps.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
