Hammering home a common message of the Trump campaign, Donald Trump Jr. attacked what he called media bias against his father, saying that "They've gotten rid of even the notion that you're supposed to be objective."
Appearing on Sean Hannity's radio program, Trump Jr. particularly criticized CNN.
He gave an example of the network stacking the deck when it has "eight professional, liberal but professional, people on a panel, and they find like one Trump supporter from the street, who has no real political knowledge … and they put that person up against eight people who do this for a living and try to make it seem like that's a fair fight. I mean, it's so ridiculous I can't even watch it anymore."
Trump Jr. also cited what he said was a double standard against his father, such as Vice President Joe Biden talking about Trump's lack of experience, but "where was [President Barack] Obama's experience eight years ago when he had done absolutely nothing, no real world experience, he was a half-term senator. It's a double standard that you'll never get around."
Hannity said that in conversations with Trump supporters he found that one complaint was that the Republican nominee distracted attention by criticizing others not central to the Democratic campaign instead of focusing on attacking Clinton.
When asked his thoughts on this, Trump Jr. said that his father is "going to be who he is … He's his own guy and that's what has gotten him here."
However, Trump Jr. emphasized that "now that we are getting into the crunch time, we're going to see that focus on [Clinton], because that's where it needs to be."
BuzzFeed News pointed out several problems with the criticisms that Trump Jr. gave, citing as an example that, despite the claim that CNN stacks the deck against the GOP nominee, the network's paid pundits advocating for Trump include his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, former Reagan staffer Jeffrey Lord, radio host Scottie Nell Hughes, and lawyer Kayleigh McEnany.
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