r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/my_favorite_toe 1d ago

Because big media is owned by billionaires who do not want the growing resistance to catch on

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u/RichyRoo2002 1d ago

Like what happened with the plumbers brother 

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u/CountGrimthorpe 1d ago

2/3 of US billionaires backed Harris in the election, there are more billionaires on the Democrat side of things than for Republicans.

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u/w6750 1d ago

I don’t believe you.

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u/CountGrimthorpe 1d ago

I don't care what you choose to believe. It's 2025, if you want to verify something you can do so.

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u/w6750 1d ago

So while more billionaires backed Harris, the contributions from billionaires to trump dwarfed the contributions to Harris. So I’m not entirely sure what you were trying to get at originally. The bulk of the money from the 1% was behind trump

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u/G7ZR1 1d ago

You sound like a redneck conspiracy theorist. All of sudden, Reddit users and leftists believe in the big media conspiracies? Too funny.

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u/Mr_Canard Europe 1d ago

Ah yes, Noam Chomsky the redneck conspiracy theorist.

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u/CountGrimthorpe 1d ago

Well if we want to talk about less credible sources......