Blaze News original: Americans don't trust the media. Here are 7 examples why they probably shouldn't. | Blaze Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Gallup indicated earlier this year that the public's average confidence in 17 institutions, including the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, organized religion, higher education, and banks, has been lower than 30% for the past three years.
50% : " ABC News reported, "Trump quickly blamed both sides for the conflict, adding that there were 'very fine people' among both the protesters -- which included white supremacists and white nationalists -- and the counterprotesters.
49% : The media desperately tried to suggest that Trump referred to white supremacists and possibly even Nazis as "very fine people.
30% : Smollett said that his attackers yelled, "This is MAGA country!" and later told the press he was targeted because of his criticism of Trump.
28% : Trump said, "As I said on, remember this, Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence.
28% : " After Trump noted that violent instigators were on both sides of the demonstration and that some people present at the rally had simply been protesting iconoclasm, a reporter said, "The neo-Nazis started this thing.
26% : " These efforts forced Snopes to ultimately admit -- to the chagrin of leftists at the New Republic -- that Trump had done no such thing.
20% : " Former Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan also suggested that Trump treated "white supremacists and those who protest them as roughly equal.
16% : " Trump replied: Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group.

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