WaPo and Bloomberg try to explain away Venezuelan expats' support for Trump

Monica Showalter:
Bloomberg News, which is published in the Washington Post, put out an amazingly shoddy article on why the vast majority of Venezuelan-Americans are planning to vote for Donald Trump. It was little more than talking points to boost Joe Biden. Which pretty much left the Venezuelans out of it. All that was left was an ad for Joe Biden's socialism.
The Bloomberg article ran the Washington Post headline of:
Florida’s Venezuelan Diaspora Sees Trump as Best, Flawed Hope
Flawed. Oh really? Right there you know there are going to be a lot of wet noodles.
Yet that doesn't explain the gargantuan pro-Trump rallies have blown through in Doral, Florida's Little Venezuela, or the rising support from Latinos drawn to Trump that has put Biden to shame. Instead of interview those Venezuelans for their reasons why, all the Bloomberg reporter could bring himself to do was quote the tiny number of Venezuelan expatriates who didn't like Trump, or who were grudgingly voting for Trump, as if it was a bitter pill, allowing them scads of column inches to carp about all the reasons Trump was supposedly bad.
It was nothing but an in-kind campaign contribution. And as for the socialism-scarred Venezuelans who favor Trump by a big margin? Well, 'socialism' got a brief mention as an aside, way down near the bottom.
To read that piece, you'd think Venezuelans simply hated Trump but for some reason were conducting these big Trump rallies and voting for him en masse and somehow had a nickname in Doral -- 'MAGAzolanos' for who knows what reason.
Who cares about them? Hey, let's talk about the few Democrats among them who aren't, or the Trump voters who are holding their nose. The biased reporter, with zero interest in his topic, had a narrative to get out, directed by someone, probably someone above. And don't think that Bloomberg and Bezos don't take a significant interest in what runs on their wires and pages.
This is Mike Bloomberg's newswire, after all, and its pieces are running in Jeff Bezos's paper, promoting essentially a defense of socialism and a campaign ad for Joe Biden because they hate Trump. Two billionaires who just can't get enough of the socialism Because Trump, so the views of Venezuelans were to be ignored, even when they were the topic of the story.
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It is truly hard to imagine any Venezuelan ex-pat supporting Biden.  That the reporter scoured the whole community and found a few that ill-informed and decided to do a story about them shows poor news judgment.  Both Bezos and Bloomberg appear to support Democrats for some illogical reasons and wish to use their platform to push that agenda.  Bloomberg has also been accused of paying fines for convicts so they can vote for Biden.

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