Former MSNBC Host: Network Forced Me To Cover Trump Despite Me Not Wanting To

 Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross said in an interview this week that she was forced to constantly cover former President Donald Trump at the network despite her lack of desire to do so.

Cross, who had her show “The Cross Connection” axed by the network in late 2022, said in a podcast that she wanted to produce content that appealed to what she claims is a wide range of people.

“I want you all to know, every single week from the start of my show to the very last show I did, it was a battle,” Cross said. “It was a battle to cover things that I wanted to talk about. The network’s philosophy was Trump, Trump, Trump. They wanted me to be part of the echo chamber.”

“I wanted to cover things like inhumane treatment in prisons, that’s something that disproportionately impacts my community. Mental health among black men, the erasure of Afro-Latinos in the Latino community, land battles of the indigenous, Native Americans trying to get their family artifacts back from museums right here in America. Black farmers, reaching Latino voters, things like that,” she continued. “When I would fight these battles, I know ya’ll know exactly what I mean, I was spoken to in the most condescending ways. I mean, anything from being told the definition of news. … I would have somebody sit across from me and explain to me how news works. I had my intelligence questioned.”

She said that the network wanted her to keep bringing the same people on her show to talk about Trump and that the constant criticism she received from the network was “debilitating at times.”

 

She suggested that “white conservatives” played a role in her getting fired on the leftist network and said that the way she was fired “suggest[ed] to other people in the industry that this person is so unhireable that we could not trust her with a live mic.”

“The network began attacking me,” Cross said. “They planted hit pieces in the press. The president of the network began a bizarre, unhinged tour where she was on damage control, I don’t know what she was trying to do.”