During their live election coverage Friday afternoon, ABC’s White House correspondent Cecilia Vega claimed Trump's first term boiled down to the president’s own racism. Not the historic accomplishments for the economy, the Middle East peace deal, the execution of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, appointing conservative justices and judges or any other accomplishments, just media spun comments about race.
Just three days after the election, Vega was determined to make sure the media’s false characterizations about Trump would be his legacy instead.
To George Stephanopoulos, Vega touted how the president’s “biggest moments of the last four years” were the inflammatory racist things he said or tweeted:
But as my team and I were preparing to cover this election we went back and just looked at some of the biggest moments of the last four years. And so many of the most inflammatory things that he has said have centered around race and racism and gender, from Charlottesville to Mexicans, you know, are not sending their best people, they're sending some of them are rapists, you know, retweeting white power slogans down at the Villager -- at the Villages in Florida.
Vega went on to condescendingly lecture how Kamala Harris would soften Americans to see how wrong they were and they could "move forward" from the president's horrible "pattern of ugliness:"
And all of those things have led to what at times felt like made you question whether this tone and tenor had become just an acceptable way of dialogue in our country, whether people were okay with what they're hearing. And now when you're looking at what could potentially be this transition into someone like Kamala Harris coming into the White House as the vice president, I think it will make America pause a little bit and say ‘maybe that wasn't okay, maybe this is not who we are as a country’ and that we can move forward from some of this horrible ugliness that struck at the words part of our society for four years. And it wasn't just once. It was a real pattern of ugliness. So maybe now we pause, we take a breath, and we look back a little bit and move on and say that’s not the way it has to be, and it won’t be.
Of course the ugly assumption behind Vega’s bold claim is that millions of Americans who voted for him this election not only approved of racism but endorsed it. Ironic, considering earlier in the report, Vega bemoaned how divided the country is. Maybe it's because Vega and her peers constantly smear conservatives as violent, racist bigots?
ABC’s hate mongering also ignores the fact that President Trump secured more of the non-white vote this election than any other Republican candidate since 1960. Doesn’t really support the media’s characterization of a racist president, does it?
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Read the transcript below:
ABC News Live
11/6/2020
12:57PM EST
CECILIA VEGA: But as my team and I were preparing to cover this election we went back and just looked at some of the biggest moments of the last four years. And so many of the most inflammatory things that he has said have centered around race and racism and gender, from Charlottesville to Mexicans, you know, are not sending their best people, they're sending some of them are rapists, you know, retweeting white power slogans down at the villager -- at the villages in Florida. And all of those things have led to what at times felt like made you question whether this tone and tenor had become just an acceptable way of dialogue in our country, whether people were okay with what they're hearing. And now when you're looking at what could potentially be this transition into someone like Kamala Harris coming into the White House as the vice president, I think it will make America pause a little bit and say ‘maybe that wasn't okay, maybe this is not who we are as a country’ and that we can move forward from some of this horrible ugliness that struck at the words part of our society for four years. And it wasn't just once. It was a real pattern of ugliness. So maybe now we pause, we take a breath, and we look back a little bit and move on and say that’s not the way it has to be, and it won’t be.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And we will see in the coming days if that is to be.
