CNN’s Smerconish blasts own network, others for not airing Trump’s election speech

CNN host Michael Smerconish said major television networks acted with “condescension” by not airing President Trump’s primetime speech on election fraud on their channels, saying viewers should be trusted to evaluate the president’s remarks for themselves.

Several of the nation’s biggest networks, including CNN, NBC and ABC, refused to broadcast Trump’s Thursday night address live, while others such as CBS and Fox aired the live speech with disclaimers.

During his speech, Trump made allegations of foreign interference in U.S. elections, claiming his administration had uncovered evidence that was later released to the public on a new White House website.

The unclassified documents uploaded to the page, however, did not appear to provide sufficient evidence to support his claims of foreign interference or voter fraud in the 2020 presidential........

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