Incoming FCC Chairman Brandon Carr, who has reinstated lawsuits against broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC, may not have given a warning to the mainstream media with his comments, Lara Trump told Newsmax on Tuesday, but still, she said she hopes the message is being "taken to heart."
"The job of journalists is that they are supposed to deliver information," Trump, the former Republican National Committee co-chair and host of "The Right View" podcast, told "Newsline." "They're supposed to give facts to we, the people of this country, and allow us to come up with our own interpretation of those facts."
She added "It really is a shame that there have been so many lies infused with the 'facts' they're trying to, you know, relay to the people of this country."
The reporting, she added, has been "very damaging" to her father-in-law, President Donald Trump, and the country.
"I mean, look at the last four years," Trump said. "Look at what they were able to do, the lies about the Hunter Biden laptop, the way they've discouraged this one man, I would say our entire family, Republicans and conservatives in general."
She added that she hopes the media will start "getting back to doing the job of what journalists were supposed to do originally."
Her comments came shortly after the announcement from CNN's Jim Acosta that he is leaving the network.
Acosta's 10 a.m. slot is reportedly being filled by "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown," which currently airs at 6 p.m. ET. The Blitzer-Brown program would also expand to a two-hour slot during the daytime hours.
Plans were to move Acosta to a midnight ET slot on the network, essentially a demotion to a time when cable news viewership is low.
Acosta told viewers Tuesday to "hold on to the truth" and that "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant."
The president, meanwhile, cheered the reports as "really good news" and called Acosta "one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag."
"[He] has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, 'Death Valley,' because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!)," Trump claimed.
Acosta had been with CNN since 2007, and was the network's chief White House correspondent during the first Trump administration, often serving as an irritant to Trump.
CNN, in a statement, said that Acosta "has had a long, distinguished, nearly 20-year career at CNN, with a track record of standing up to authority, for the First Amendment and our journalistic freedoms. We want to thank him for the dedication and commitment he’s brought to his reporting and wish him the very best in the future."
Meanwhile, Lara Trump told Newsmax that if the media hasn't learned its lessons yet, "then I don't know what will ultimately teach them."
"Look, the American people spoke loud and clear, and they delivered this incredible win on Nov. 5. They delivered that with the popular vote with all seven swing states with 312 electoral votes. They said 'We haven't bought the lies that you guys have been selling us or attempting to sell us about Donald Trump.' And I think that's a beautiful thing."
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