Home Local Civic Action National news media outlets nearly silent on alleged Trump family self-dealing pharmaceutical scheme

National news media outlets nearly silent on alleged Trump family self-dealing pharmaceutical scheme

National news media outlets nearly silent on alleged Trump family self-dealing pharmaceutical scheme

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original programming on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and Newsmax as well as all original episodes of ABC’s Good Morning AmericaWorld News Tonight, and This Week; CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, and Face the Nation; and NBC’s Today, Nightly News, and Meet the Press (including weekend editions for all programs) for any of the terms “Donald,” “Trump,” “Don Jr,” “Don Junior,” “Trump Jr,” or “Trump Junior” within close proximity to any of the terms “Rx,” “prescription,” “Blink,” or “BlinkRx,” or any variation of the terms “pharmacy,” “drugs,” or “medications” from October 7, 2025, when reporting broke that Donald Trump Jr. was poised to benefit financially from a deal between BlinkRx and the government-run TrumpRx, through October 13, 2025.

We also searched articles in the Factiva database from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post for the same terms from October 7, 2025, through October 13, 2025.

We timed segments, which we defined as instances when the potential involvement of BlinkRx in the government-run TrumpRx website was the stated topic of discussion or when we found significant discussion of the story. We defined significant discussion as instances when two or more speakers in a multitopic segment discussed the story with one another.

We also timed mentions, which we defined as instances when a single speaker in a segment on another topic mentioned the story without another speaker in the segment engaging with the comment and teasers, which we defined as instances when the anchor or host promoted a segment about the story scheduled to air later in the broadcast.

We rounded all times to the nearest minute.

Finally, we included articles about the story, which we defined as instances when the story was mentioned in the headline or lead paragraphs of the text, and articles mentioning the story, which we defined as instances when the story was only mentioned in the text after the headline and lead paragraphs. We included editorial and op-eds but not letters to the editor.

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