(NEWSBUSTERS) Following the leaked tape of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump making lewd comments about women over the weekend, members of the Republican Party started to distance themselves. And NBC seemed quite giddy about it as they kicked off NBC Nightly News Monday with “Civil War” emblazoned across the screen. As if he was announcing the latest Marvel blockbuster, anchor Lester Holt declared, “With Donald Trump’s fortunes fading over his lewd comments about women, a GOP civil war has broken out.”
“Tonight, abandonment and astonishment as the country’s top Republican walks away from the top of his ticket,” hyped NBC’s Hallie Jackson at the start of her report. She would go on to parade out naysayers to declare the GOP was in freefall:
