Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio relished describing Donald Trump with words “criminal” and “convicted” and especially a “convicted felon.” Friday’s sentencing in New York offered a golden opportunity. I could tell this was coming because in Friday’s 9am top-of-hour newscast, they talked of Trump’s “criminal sentencing” three times.
On Friday’s Morning Edition, anchor A Martinez announced “he will come away with a criminal record.” They used “convicted” six times. Reporter Ximena Bustillo said “even with a criminal conviction, voters elected him to the White House,” so he “will become the first convicted felon sworn into the Oval Office.”
STEVE INSKEEP, anchor: What was it that Trump was convicted of?
BUSTILLO: The jurors ultimately convicted Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
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