Turns out everyone cares about Donald Trump’s crimes after all
Twenty million people tuned in for Thursday night’s public hearing. While much of the information that was presented wasn’t new, it was new to most of the people watching. These hearings are about educating the public and motivating them to demand action and vote accordingly. So far so good.
Notably, MSNBC and CNN each trounced Fox News in the ratings department on Thursday night. It’s clear why Fox didn’t want to air the hearings, as two of its own hosts are material witnesses in the criminal case against Donald Trump. But not only did Fox make the journalistically wrong decision by not airing the hearings, it also made the wrong ratings-based decision.
– From now on, when any House Republican tweets anything, your response should be “I beg your pardon?”
– Tweet of the day, from Rep. Lauren Underwood: “It is unconscionable that guns are the number one cause of death for children and adolescents in our country. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We need to take action to #EndGunViolence, and that’s why I voted for the Protecting Our Kids Act.”
