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This Week, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, State of the Union, Fox News Sunday

Andrea Austria / Media Matters

Sunday morning political talk shows failed to highlight dangerous Trump comments from over the weekend

Trump claimed his mass deportation plan will be a “bloody story” and threatened to prosecute his political rivals, again

Written by Rob Savillo

Published 09/09/24 1:19 PM EDT

The Sunday morning political talk shows — ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, CNN's State of the Union, Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, and NBC's Meet the Press — largely ignored dangerous comments that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump made over the weekend, continuing a trend of media outlets failing to hold the former president accountable for his dangerous and violent rhetoric.

Meet the Press was the only program to address Trump's statements, which included threats to prosecute his political rivals and a suggestion that he would use violence to enact his mass deportation plan. The show covered only his threats to political opponents.

Trump stated in a Mosinee, Wisconsin, rally on Saturday that his mass deportation plan to remove millions of undocumented migrants would be a “bloody story,” seemingly suggesting that as president he would use violence to enforce his aggressive immigration policy. Separately, in a Truth Social post the same day, Trump yet again revived his election denialism by accusing his political rivals of “cheating” and threatening to prosecute them “to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences.”

A Media Matters review of transcripts for This Week, Face the Nation, State of the Union, Fox News Sunday, and Meet the Press found that none of the networks' flagship Sunday morning political talk shows addressed Trump's “bloody story” comment made at the Wisconsin rally. As for his Truth Social post, only Meet the Press covered the comment, quoting it in an interview with Republican Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota.

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Previously, Media Matters found that major television news networks largely ignored Trump’s deportation platform. Similarly, his latest call for retribution adds to a growing list of comments that media have failed to adequately cover about his fantasy of jailing his perceived enemies — not to mention his tacit support of Truth Social accounts that call for the deaths of his political opponents.

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