Rep. Lee Zeldin: Mainstream Media ‘Look for Any Opportunity’ To Destroy GOP

The freshman congressman says “the media is just trying to get a head start tearing down the Republican Party” by focusing on Steve Scalise

Congressman Lee Zeldin: ‘Mainstream Media’ ‘Look For Any Opportunity’ To Destroy GOP (NewsBusters)

On Sunday, freshman Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and slammed the media in the wake of the controversy surrounding Steve Scalise (R-La.) and his alleged speech at a white supremacist conference in 2002. 

Speaking to Wallace, Zeldin called out the “mainstream media who look for any opportunity to try to tear down Republicans to help back up the President of the United States and the Democrats in Congress.”

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