Donald Trump has called for NPR to be defunded after Uri Berliner, a senior business editor at the state-funded broadcaster, revealed how anti-Trump bias and woke ideology have skewed its news coverage in recent years.
Berliner revealed that NPR journalists actively worked towards damaging or toppling Trump’s presidency, aligning themselves heavily with Representative Adam Schiff and the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory while burying news of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.”
“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP.’ THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE,” he continued, adding: “NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!”
Berliner revealed that NPR was quick to dismiss the “lab leak” theory of Covid’s origins. He also revealed that staff were tasked with “identifying and ending systemic racism” — a woke conspiracy theory that holds ethnic minorities are being systematically oppressed in society to benefit white people.
NPR receives tens of millions of dollars in public funding, much of which is routed indirectly through local radio stations.
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