Fox Host: Blame Trump For Public Distrust Of Media

The Daily Beast reports:

Fox News host Bret Baier admits that President Donald Trump’s decade-long “Fake News” crusade is to blame for plummeting trust in the mainstream media. Baier, 54, said the president “broke the system” and decimated whatever trust remained in the media before he took over the Republican Party in 2016.

“Maybe that was part of his MO, what he wanted to do,” Baier told Politico’s Deep Dive podcast on Friday.

The host said that those in the media are partly to blame, too. “Middle America didn’t trust what they were getting from a lot of media,” he said, which opened the door for Trump to capitalize on those emotions.

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