Media Matters’ President Angelo Carusone On MSNBC: Media Should Discount Trump Advisers “Running Interference” On Trump’s Extreme Call For A Nuclear “Arms Race”
From the December 24 edition of MSNBC’s MSNBC Live:
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AYMAN MOHYELDIN (HOST): How should the media cover the discrepancy between the president-elect who is saying let there be an arms race if there is going to be one and a spokesperson who says there won’t be one?
ANGELO CARUSONE (PRESIDENT, MEDIA MATTERS): I think you have to listen to the president-elect. Because it’s not just an erratic, one-off comment that he made here on Twitter. This has been something that he has been saying since the 1980s, actually. In the 1980s, he did an interview where he proposed that the United States should have made the same comment to the Soviet Union, that we should have either basically forced other countries not to produce nuclear weapons, use their collective power both economically and militarily to stop any country from getting nuclear weapons and as a result amplify the arms race there so that they were the only two countries with it. So I do think that we should listen the president-elect. We shouldn’t listen to the people running interference for him who are designed to sort of spin these things and obfuscate. We should listen to what the president-elect is saying and act accordingly.
