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Former Univision President Slams Network for Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ Town Hall

Donald Trump’s town hall with Univision followed a similar event hosted by Kamala Harris on Oct. 10.

The former president of Univision and Telemundo blasted the network for hosting a town hall with Donald Trump and Latino voters. The GOP presidential pick used the Wednesday event to promote his anti-immigration platform and peddle false and conspiratorial claims about Haitian migrants. Joaquin Blaya took his former network to task over the town hall, slamming it as little more than an “infomercial” and comparing the coverage to something viewers would expect from Fox News. “The question here is Univision did not distinguish themselves as being a true news organization. And served as a platform for close to an hour of his continuing recital of lies,” Blaya told Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He criticized Univision for sidelining their main anchor Jorge Ramos, and instead using “someone they brought from Mexico.” As for Trump, the ex-network president pointed out “some of the things he has been saying in the last few months which are very relevant to Hispanics, were not brought up,” namely “we are poisoning the blood of this country. That includes me and my family.”