Fox News “Media Buzz” host Howard Kurtz said Sunday that the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home has driven a deeper discussion about media bias.
For several days, political pundits have been slugging it out to make sense of the raid and what role politics may have played in the decision to execute the search warrant.
Kurtz said media liberals are cheering the raid on Trump’s house while media conservatives are screaming that this is an outrageous abuse of power. Kurtz pointed out that right-leaning pundits took the exact opposite stance when federal investigators were scrutinizing Hillary Clinton.
Fox News contributor and podcast host Guy Benson joined the show. He said it feels as if there is an “unreliable narrator issue.”
“There’s reason to doubt the absolute adherence to total veracity from Donald Trump,” Benson said. “There’s also a very good reason not to just implacably trust the media because they are incapable of covering this man fairly and compassionately over and over again.”
Democratic Strategist Lis Smith also joined the show. She said that the media has irresponsibility been letting Donald Trump frame the argument.
“The news isn’t that Donald Trump thinks it was unfair. The news here is that Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resident was searched by the FBI,” Smith said.
