On Monday morning’s CNN Newsroom, co-host Jim Sciutto brought on Representative Gerald Connolly (D-VA) to promote insane conspiracies about the upcoming election. Forgoing any semblance of objectivity, Sciutto nodded along as Connolly declared that President Trump will “absolutely” interfere with the election and bizarrely claimed that Trump “has a special bromance with Vladimir Putin.”
Sciutto, the former Obama administration stooge, began the discussion by setting up Connolly to accuse Trump of planning to use the Postal Service to mess with the election:
Let's talk about the U.S. Postal Service. On Friday evening, typically when you try to hide things you don't want a lot of attention on, a -- a -- a hiring freeze, massive reorganization of top Postal Service leaders, of course led by the postmaster general, who’s a Trump supporter and a donor. He claims this is about efficiency in the Post Office. Do you believe that explanation?
That perfectly teed up the leftist lawmaker to launch into his rambling, unfounded fantasy: "I'd call that a Trojan horse. We're -- we're about seven weeks away from the first votes being cast, most of them initially probably by mail, and all of a sudden you want to have efficiency and organization, which just so happens to have the corollary effect of slowing down delivery of mail....connect the dots." Instead of asking for any proof of such wild assertions, Sciutto simply replied: "Yeah, it's a remarkable argument."
The hackish host then colluded with his fellow Democrat to outright claim that Trump will “interfere in the election”:
SCIUTTO: Are you saying, say it directly, is this an attempt by the President, do you believe, to interfere in the election?
CONNOLLY: Absolutely. The President has not, to his credit, not been subtle about this. He has said that voting by mail is a threat to him and to Republicans and it -- it, you know, has used phony -- you know, creates fraud and so forth and so on --
SCIUTTO: Yep.
CONNOLLY: -- even though we actually have lots of empirical data of states that gone -- have gone all mail voting who actually have almost no fraud and actually have smooth elections. But those facts notwithstanding, he's -- he -- he is afraid of people voting by mail in large numbers because of the pandemic and one way to suppress that vote, and they're experts in the vote suppression --
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
CONNOLLY: -- is to slow down the delivery of mail.
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
CONNOLLY: And threaten --
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
CONNOLLY: The -- the -- the -- the failure of your ballot to get there.
If Sciutto wants to work so hard against Trump, he should quit pretending to be a journalist and go back to explicitly working for the Democrats. Or maybe Sciutto should go work at InfoWars due to his love for outlandish conspiracy theories. Within the past few weeks, Sciutto has joined with Democratic guests on CNN to claim that Trump may interfere with the election, seize the ballot boxes, or even inspire far right extremists to rebel and then use the military to counter the rebellion and take over the country.
Because CNN cannot let the debunked Russia collusion scandal go, Sciutto then brought up Russia and Connolly responded by proclaiming that Trump “has a special bromance with Vladimir Putin”:
SCIUTTO: It's a remarkable charge. There -- there's another issue. Four years ago, Russia interfered in the election. It was the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community. They did so to help Donald Trump. Last -- last week we heard Russia is attempting to interfere in the 2020 election to help Donald Trump. The President has yet to warn Russia away. And, in fact, has -- has questioned that assessment repeatedly. Is the President, in effect, inviting Russian interference again in your view?
CONNOLLY: Again, I think this is another example where -- where Donald Trump is not subtle about that. He's already done it. So four years ago on the campaign he publicly, at a rally, invited the Russians to hack into his opponent's e-mails and reveal whatever they could find, which they promptly did. So -- so I don't think it's any secret that he has a special bromance with Vladimir Putin. We can all speculate why. But he is certainly not willing, even when American lives are involved, to hold Putin and Russia to account for anything.
What’s “remarkable” is that CNN considers this twaddle to be news. But then again, it does not care about the quality of its content, but about helping Joe Biden win in November.
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Read the full August 10th transcript here:
CNN's New Day
08/10/20
9:31:34 AM
JIM SCIUTTO: Let's talk about the U.S. Postal Service. On Friday evening, typically when you try to hide things you don't want a lot of attention on, a -- a -- a hiring freeze, massive reorganization of top Postal Service leaders, of course led by the postmaster general, who’s a Trump supporter and a donor. He claims this is about efficiency in the Post Office. Do you believe that explanation?
REP. GERALD CONNOLLY (D-VA): I'd call that a Trojan horse. We're -- we're about seven weeks away from the first votes being cast, most of them initially probably by mail, and all of a sudden you want to have efficiency and organization, which just so happens to have the corollary effect of slowing down delivery of mail.
SCIUTTO: Yeah, it's a remarkable argument.
CONNOLLY: It's -- it's really -- connect -- connect the dots.
SCIUTTO: Are you saying, say it directly, is this an attempt by the President, do you believe, to interfere in the election?
CONNOLLY: Absolutely. The President has not, to his credit, not been subtle about this. He has said that voting by mail is a threat to him and to Republicans and it -- it, you know, has used phony -- you know, creates fraud and so forth and so on --SCIUTTO: Yep.
CONNOLLY: -- even though we actually have lots of empirical data of states that gone -- have gone all mail voting who actually have almost no fraud and actually have smooth elections. But those facts notwithstanding, he's -- he -- he is afraid of people voting by mail in large numbers because of the pandemic and one way to suppress that vote, and they're experts in the vote suppression --
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
CONNOLLY: -- is to slow down the delivery of mail.
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
CONNOLLY: And threaten --
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
CONNOLLY: The -- the -- the -- the failure of your ballot to get there.
SCIUTTO: It's a remarkable charge. There -- there's another issue. Four years ago, Russia interfered in the election. It was the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community. They did so to help Donald Trump. Last -- last week we heard Russia is attempting to interfere in the 2020 election to help Donald Trump. The President has yet to warn Russia away. And, in fact, has -- has questioned that assessment repeatedly. Is the President, in effect, inviting Russian interference again in your view?
CONNOLLY: Again, I think this is another example where -- where Donald Trump is not subtle about that. He's already done it. So four years ago on the campaign he publicly, at a rally, invited the Russians to hack into his opponent's e-mails and reveal whatever they could find, which they promptly did. So -- so I don't think it's any secret that he has a special bromance with Vladimir Putin. We can all speculate why. But he is certainly not willing, even when American lives are involved, to hold Putin and Russia to account for anything.
SCIUTTO: It's amazing four years later.
