Former Univision president bashes network for hosting Trump 'propaganda' town hall
The former president of Univions and Telemundo took his former network to task on Thursday morning for taking part in a town hall with Donald Trump where the former president was allowed to glibly brush away Latino voters' concerns with little push back.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" with co-host Mika Brzezinski, Joaquin Blaya compared the Trump town hall to what one might see on Fox News and labeled it as nothing more than an "infomericial" where the audience was brought in as "props."
Getting right into it, he complained, "He [Trump] went onto recite his concert of lies without any journalism integrity on the part of the network, without any fact-checking."
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"So he spoke uninterrupted saying many of the things we have seen him say for the last few months, but some of the things he has been saying in the last few months which are very relevant to Hispanics, were not brought up," he added. "For example, that we are poisoning the blood of this country. That we includes me and my family."
He accused, "He is working on the largest deportation project in American history where he is planning to raid and put in camps millions of people. Obviously he went on talking about the Haitians in Springfield, legal citizens of this country which were invited by that city to help provide services and jobs. It goes on and on."
"I think you have covered this subject at length this morning," he added. "The question here is Univision did not distinguish themselves as being a true news organization. And served as a platform for close to an hour of his continuing recital of lies."
He then singled out the town hall moderator, telling the MSNBC host, "I cannot respond for the network, but the person that was conducting the –– let's call it the town hall –– was the same person that did what I call a propaganda project. The main anchor of the Univision network is Jorge Ramos, one of the most respected journalists in America. You would have thought that Jorge would have to be the person doing the interview and the town hall. Yet they, again, decided to put on someone that they brought from Mexico, and the results are what you saw last night where they allow Trump to go freely reciting his traditional list of lies."
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