Reporters ANGRY after CBS News hires Trump former Chief of Staff

Reporters at CBS News were triggered and angered recently when the network hired former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney:

NY POST – CBS News’ decision to hire former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney as a paid, on-air contributor sparked anger from staffers, according to a report.

Journalists at the Tiffany Network are reportedly upset over the decision to hire Mulvaney, particularly in light of his comments bashing the press while working for President Donald Trump.

Republican Voices and Winning in November

But CBS executives decided to bring on Mulvaney, who under Trump served as acting White House chief of staff as well as a special envoy for Northern Ireland, because of the likelihood the GOP will regain the majority in Congress this fall, according to the Washington Post.

The Washington Post cited comments from a top CBS News executive who told staffers that the network needed to add Republican voices in order to have “access” to both sides of the aisle as the nation prepares for midterm elections.

“If you look at some of the people that we’ve been hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms,” CBS News co-president Neeraj Khemlani told “Mornings” staffers.

“A lot of the people that we’re bringing in are helping us in terms of access to that side of the equation.”

“Everyone is baffled”

During his time with the Trump administration, Mulvaney ruffled journalists’ feathers on several occasions. He accused the media of seeking to bring down the Trump presidency with its coverage during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the Washington Post, CBS News staffers are less upset over the fact that Mulvaney was a Trump administration official than over his comments that some deemed factually incorrect.

“I know everyone I talked to today was embarrassed about the hiring,” a CBS News employee told The Post.

Another anonymous employee at the network told the paper: “Everyone is baffled.”

Do you ever hear reporters responding this way when a Democrat or a Trump back-stabber is hired by a news agency? No, they love it when someone like Scaramucci is brought on board to bash Trump and Republicans.

This just once again proves how leftist these reporters truly are, as if we needed any more evidence.


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