"Driving the news: Reporters within the right's sprawling media ecosystem have fanned out to protest flashpoints, documenting violent encounters and clashes with police. They frame their coverage as exposing the "truth" mainstream outlets ignore - pumping out clips that quickly spread across MAGA media and into Trump's own social feeds. Some of the reporters have become part of the story themselves: The Post Millennial's Katie Daviscourt and independent journalist Nick Sortor both say they were attacked by protesters in Portland."
"Days later, they were seated at the White House - participating in an extraordinary roundtable on antifa that underscored the tight feedback loop between MAGA media and Trump's inner circle. Sortor even presented Trump with a burned American flag that he says he confiscated from a protester in Portland, where he was arrested - and later cleared - as a result of the altercation. "Why don't you give it to Pam [Bondi]? Give it to the attorney general and let's start prosecutions," Trump told Sortor,"
Reporters within the right's media ecosystem have focused on protest flashpoints, documenting violent encounters and clashes with police and amplifying those clips across MAGA outlets and social feeds. Some reporters say they were attacked and later appeared at a White House roundtable on antifa, illustrating a feedback loop between partisan media and the Trump inner circle. One reporter presented a burned American flag to Trump and recounted an arrest that was later cleared. Data and law enforcement reports indicate violent incidents remain limited and localized, with most demonstrations described by local officials as peaceful or quickly dispersed.
Read at Axios
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]