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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump attacks Drudge without evidence to support his claim because drudgereport negative on trump
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/media/matt-drudge-trump/index.htmlIn a rare statement, Matt Drudge, the prominent conservative news mogul, refuted President Trump's Saturday claim that traffic to his website has plummeted as its coverage has grown more critical of him.
"The past 30 days has been the most eyeballs in Drudge Report's 26 year-history," Drudge said in an email to CNN. "Heartbreaking that it has been under such tragic circumstances."
The Drudge Report, founded in 1995, is arguably the most influential conservative news website. Drudge rarely reports or writes stories himself. Rather, he and his site serve as an aggregator, linking to other news organizations and often providing them with large volumes of traffic.
Drudge supported Trump during the 2016 presidential election and in the early days of the Trump presidency was even a frequent visitor to the White House. But since the summer of 2019, the Drudge Report has spotlighted a significant amount of negative news about the Trump.
It's unclear what precisely caused the shift in the Drudge Report's coverage. A person close to Drudge himself told CNN in October 2019 that he had grown exasperated with the President.
Regardless, the negative coverage has apparently miffed Trump, who openly criticized Drudge on Saturday afternoon.
Trump retweeted an attack from a far-right blogger who argued Drudge's coverage of the coronavirus has been misleading and sensationalistic. "I gave up on Drudge (a really nice guy) long ago, as have many others," Trump commented. "People are dropping like flies!"
The president did not provide any evidence to support his assertion that people were abandoning Drudge's website en masse. Web analytics data do not support Trump's claim that Drudge is losing web traffic amid the coronavirus crisis
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/media/matt-drudge-trump/index.html
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Trump attacks Drudge without evidence to support his claim because drudgereport negative on trump (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Apr 2020
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. "People are dropping like flies!"
Trump really is a sociopath. Who would say that blithely at this moment?
underpants
(182,884 posts)3. You beat me to it.
underpants
(182,884 posts)2. "People are dropping like flies!"
Trump tweeted that. Today. About a website.
brewens
(13,622 posts)4. Did Drudge pay him to say that? Boom! Go the hits on his website! n/t
onecaliberal
(32,899 posts)5. Speechless...