{"id":66186,"date":"2017-02-16T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66186"},"modified":"2017-02-16T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T12:39:57","slug":"piers-morgan-medias-attempt-to-delegitimize-trump-is-un-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66186","title":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan: Media&#8217;s Attempt to Delegitimize Trump Is &#8216;Un-American&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5324969553001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>FOX News Insider<\/p>\n<p>Piers Morgan believes that the mainstream media is fueling &#8220;hysterical&#8221; attacks on President Donald Trump, and it&#8217;s fundamentally &#8220;un-American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an absolutely frenzied and concerted attempt to delegitimize, sabotage and destroy the Trump presidency before it\u2019s even started,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;I think that is un-American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the media&#8217;s &#8220;nakedly partisan&#8221; coverage of Trump is actually bordering on &#8220;abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan pointed out that resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and allegations about the Trump administration&#8217;s ties to Russia are being portrayed as a scandal on par with Watergate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a wildly exaggerated view,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;The facts are, there is nothing right now to link Donald Trump to any collusion with anyone from Russia in relation to the American election. Nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/02\/15\/piers-morgan-attacks-trump-presidency-are-un-american\">http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/02\/15\/piers-morgan-attacks-trump-presidency-are-un-american<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}