Sen. Marco Rubio blasted CBS News’ “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan after she and most other legacy media outlets misrepresented something that former President Donald Trump said about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming). On the campaign trail in Arizona earlier this week, Trump said that Cheney and other “war hawks” like her have no issue sending other people’s sons and daughters off to war because they know they won’t have to face the enemy themselves.
Here’s how the exchange went [see video below]:
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, in terms of safety and security, that sound bite a moment ago from Donald Trump talking about training guns on the face of Liz Cheney, the Trump campaign–
SEN. RUBIO: That’s not what he said.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –says that was about foreign policy. Well, we just played it for our viewers and listeners who heard it. Isn’t it possible to make the case without using rhetoric like that?
SEN. RUBIO: But Donald Trump doesn’t talk like someone who’s been in Washington for 30 years.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Training guns on her face?
SEN. RUBIO: No, but that’s not what he said. Margaret, you guys know that. Come on, everybody knows exactly what he was saying. What he was saying is–
MARGARET BRENNAN: We played the soundbite.
SEN. RUBIO: –you’re so much in favor of war. No, you played a piece of the sound bite because in another piece of it, he said he would give her a gun to go stand in conflict as well. You don’t normally give a gun to someone that is going to be facing a firing squad, which is what much of the media made it sound like.
The point he was making is not a new point. It is a point that has been made by people in both parties for decades, and that is, you’re all for war, and it’s easy to be for war when you’re in some fancy building and you’re safe and sound in Washington, DC. Let’s see how much you are for war when you yourself get deployed into combat. That’s the point that he was making.
That he uses language that maybe is not what we typically hear from someone that works at a think tank, fine. But I think it’s truly, not just unfair, it’s egregious to see that reported the way that it was, along with other things that are out there. I’ve never seen such a concerted effort- and look, I’ve always believed there’s bias, because no one’s unbiased, but I’ve never seen such a concerted effort like what I’ve seen, especially in the last two weeks, among multiple media outlets in this country to, in some cases, breathlessly distort and lie about what’s being said, and to create and manufacture these gotcha moments against Donald Trump. I’ve never seen it before. It’s over the top.
WATCH:
WATCH: Senator @MarcoRubio spars with CBS’s @margbrennan: “I’ve never seen such a concerted effort.. in the last two weeks among multiple media outlets to breathlessly distort and lie.. to create and manufacture these gotcha moments against Trump.” pic.twitter.com/slGts7g6rX
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