Report: Trump Invited Top News Anchors For Lunch, Didn’t Invite CNN, And No One Complained – By James Barrett (DailyWire) / Feb 5 2020
On the eve of the big impeachment vote in the Senate, in which President Trump was ultimately acquitted on both of the Democrats’ articles, Trump invited some of the nation’s top television news anchors to the White House for lunch, and, according to the Daily Beast, “ate them alive.”
“Donald Trump served various television news personalities a lunch described by one White House guest as soup and filet of sole Tuesday — but soon the assembled anchorpeople were eating out of his hand,” Daily Beast Editor-at-Large Lloyd Grove reported Tuesday.
Among the big names invited to the presidential luncheon were some of the news media’s most high-profile figures, including “NBC’s Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC’s David Muir and George Stephanopoulos, and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan,” Grove notes.
A notable omission was anyone at all from CNN, the network Trump has made painfully clear in the past is his least favorite. But if the folks over at CNN were hoping that any of their peers would speak up on their behalf, Grove says that they’ll be gravely disappointed — because “nobody at the long table” even “bothered to ask” why Trump had made sure to exclude them.
Also missing at the lunch was anyone from MSNBC, a network the president made a point of jabbing, as Grove reports:
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