DeSantis Launches Harshest Attack Yet on Fox, Pro-Trump Media
With three days left until the Iowa caucuses, Ron DeSantis is ratcheting up his attacks on conservative media outlets, primarily Fox News, for not being critical enough of Donald Trump due to the effect that that would have on their bottom line.
While outside one of his campaign offices in Urbandale on Friday, DeSantis likened right-wing media’s treatment of the former president to Roman emperors’ bodyguards and intelligence agents.
“He's got basically a Praetorian Guard of the conservative media: Fox News, the websites, all this stuff,” the Florida governor told reporters. “They just don’t hold him accountable because they’re worried about losing viewers and they don’t want to have their ratings go down. And that’s just the reality. That’s just the truth. And I’m not complaining about it. I’d rather that not be the case. But that’s just I think an objective reality.”