Yet another anti-Trump hit piece is doing the rounds, but this time they chose the wrong target. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna just exposed The Daily Beast’s hit piece attempt, and backed up her claims with receipts!
At a glance:
• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna slammed The Daily Beast for misleadingly portraying an interaction with Donald Trump
• Luna clarified Trump respectfully offered his bed on a plane when she was experiencing pregnancy symptoms
• The Daily Beast headline suggested impropriety with “Don’t Tell Melania: Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed”
• Luna accused media outlets of attacking Trump, his marriage, and the First Lady while implying something “distasteful” about her
• The White House dismissed the book containing these claims as a “work of fiction” and a “desperate attempt to make money off President Trump’s name”
Rep. Luna Fires Back at Media Misrepresentation
Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has come out swinging against what she calls a disgraceful attempt by The Daily Beast to smear both her and President Donald Trump. The Florida representative took to social media to set the record straight after a headline suggested something inappropriate between her and the former president.
The controversy stems from a new book by Axios White House reporter Alex Isenstadt titled “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power.” The book makes inaccurate suggestions about the relationship between Trump and Luna, but the Florida Congresswoman has proven that Trump was being respectful when he offered her a place to rest during a pregnancy-related illness, and her husband was present during the entire interaction.
Context Matters: What Really Happened
Luna explained that she was experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms during an event with Trump when he noticed her discomfort. According to Luna, Trump said, “If you need a bed to lay down in, there’s one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it. Just don’t tell Melania. She doesn’t like other women on my bed.”
The Congresswoman emphasized that Trump made this comment jokingly and with her husband present. She expressed disgust at how The Daily Beast chose to frame the interaction with their provocative headline “Don’t Tell Melania: Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed,” which she believes deliberately implied something inappropriate.
“I seldom respond to nasty headlines because I don’t like giving trash credibility, however, being that there is allegedly a book coming out with me named and attacking @POTUS, his marriage, our first lady, and frankly implying something distasteful about me, I am responding,” Luna wrote on social media.
Can the media get any lower?
White House Dismisses Anti-Trump Books
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung was similarly brutal in his response to this and other similar publications about the President. He called the book “a desperate attempt to make money off of President Trump’s name because journalism is a dying industry, with reporters peddling lies and selling their souls to make a quick buck.”
Cheung added that “these works of fiction either belong in the bargain bin of the fantasy section in a discount bookstore or should be repurposed as tissue paper.”
He’s not wrong!
