Around the witching hour, when Trump’s victory wasn’t quite official but definitely a reality, the normally more buttoned-up crew covering the election for PBS let its fear and anger fly. Before signing off from Donald Trump’s victory party at 2:58 a.m., reporter William Brangham went on the petulant rant he’d apparently been holding in for several hours of coverage:
William Brangham: I can only also imagine, though, that for the other half of the country, who is watching this, the people who are aghast at the idea that we are on the cusp of electing someone who waged a violent riot against our democratic process, who calls climate change a hoax, who spread racist lies about immigrants throughout this campaign, who has emulated dictators and says he would like to perhaps be one.
