Mark McCloskey: ‘The Media Runs Everything’

More than two years ago, Mark McCloskey and his wife took up arms to protect their West End home in St. Louis during the George Floyd protests and riots of 2020.

He knows their lives will never return to normal—in part because of the unceasing, mostly negative attention they received from the legacy media.

“The media runs everything,” McCloskey told The Epoch Times during an Aug. 1 interview at Clayton, Missouri’s Ritz Carlton Hotel.

“They control the information that’s available to people, and they control the dialogue,” he said.

McCloskey, a dark horse candidate in the Aug. 2 Republican Senate primary, said he and his wife, Patricia, have been able to survive the onslaught from the media, local government, and the Left only because they are relatively self-sufficient.

“If I had been the managing partner of the largest law firm in St. Louis, and I did what I did on June the 28th of 2020, I would have had to go on an apology tour Monday morning, apologize for being born, apologize for being white, apologize for being successful. I’d still get fired and be without a job,” he said.

He faced ostracism in his own West End neighborhood—and no one from the local prep school he attended has helped finance his Senate campaign.

“They’re all tied into businesses. They all have social relationships. I don’t belong to any country clubs. I don’t belong to any Masonic organizations. I have no strings at all attached to me, but almost everybody else has lots of strings attached to them,” McCloskey said.

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On Aug. 1, former President Donald Trump endorsed “Eric”—a move that could be taken as support for either former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens or his top rival in the primary, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.

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