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CNN Panel Smears Kavanaugh: ‘Unhinged’, ‘Deeply Political’ at Hearing
September 27th, 2018 5:08 PM
Judge Brett Kavanaugh came out swinging against Senate Democrats during Thursday’s show trial at the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was angry and pulled no punches as he called out the bad faith actors trying to destroy his life. But to CNN liberals, he was acting “unhinged” and his comments were “deeply political”.
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Cable News Worried by Porn Lawyer's Role in Kavanaugh 'Circus'
September 26th, 2018 5:54 PM
A handful of cable pundits were less than thrilled to see highly political porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti injecting himself into the Judge Brett Kavanaugh controversy.
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CNN: Trump is 'Uber Inappropriate,' 'Missing a Human Screw'
September 12th, 2018 4:40 PM
During Tuesday’s The Lead, the CNN panel complained that President Trump did not act like a “Consoler-in-Chief” on the seventeenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, describing his behavior as “uber inappropriate” and suggested he may be “missing a human screw.”
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CNN’s Psaki: Trump Sounds ‘Almost Gleeful and Excited’ for Florence
September 11th, 2018 5:59 PM
On the Tuesday edition of CNN’s The Lead, political commentator and former Obama administration official Jen Psaki suggested that the President was “almost gleeful and excited about” Hurricane Florence, its size, and possible destruction as if it’s an accomplishment he helped engineer.
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CNN Strategist Says Dems 'Extremely Respectful' at Kavanaugh Hearing
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September 5th, 2018 4:28 PM
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s daughters didn’t leave their father’s hearing because it got heated, according to one CNN strategist. After interruptions from both Democrats and protesters, Kavanaugh’s young daughters were ushered out of his confirmation hearing on Sept. 4. Despite contradicting reports, CNN strategist Symone Sanders argued that they were “already going to get up” and “…
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CNN: Trump Sent His Press Secretary to 'Basically Poop on the People'
August 16th, 2018 6:32 PM
During Wednesday’s edition of The Lead, the panel found itself in a little bit of shock after learning that President Trump had revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, who has previously called President Trump treasonous in his new capacity as an NBC News analyst.
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Media Collusion: CNN, MSNBC Personalities to Trump Officials: 'Resign'
July 17th, 2018 6:27 PM
For all of the talk about collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the liberal media seems to have engaged in a little bit of collusion themselves. On six different programs over the past 24 hours, the hosts or guests either suggested or asked their guests to weigh in on whether Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats should resign due to President Trump’s refusal to accept the…
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Tapper Asks: Was Obama 'Asleep at the Switch' on Russia?
July 15th, 2018 5:05 PM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN analyst (and former Obama national-security aide) Samantha Vinograd arrogantly denounced President Trump as a "tool" of Russian disinformation. But during Friday's extended edition of The Lead With Jake Tapper, the CNN host actually confronted Vinograd with the Obama administration's record. After Robert Mueller handed down his latest indictments, Vinograd said…
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CNN Legal Experts: Lefty Values ‘In Line with’ America Are Now at Risk
June 27th, 2018 5:40 PM
NewsBusters has documented some of the initial reaction to Justice Kennedy's retirement, but it continued hours later with CNN legal analysts Laura Coates and Jeffrey Toobin on The Lead. The pair warned that “more progressive-minded notions and ones that, frankly, are in line with our democratic principles” are at stake with Kennedy gone with gay people likely to face discrimination and being…
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Jeffrey Toobin on CNN: 'Roe v. Wade Is Doomed'
June 27th, 2018 5:31 PM
On Wednesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin and The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Legal Analyst, Jeffrey Toobin expressed his anguish over the likelihood of President Trump nominating another Supreme Court Justice and forecasted the “doom” of Roe v Wade.
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Fireworks: Jake Tapper Torches Keith Ellison Over Louis Farrakhan Ties
June 26th, 2018 8:01 PM
CNN’s The Lead spent almost six minutes on Tuesday discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Trump’s travel ban with Minnesota Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, but host Jake Tapper turned the tables on Ellison by grilling him for the remaining five minutes on his ties to anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and sexist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
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Begala Accuses Trump of Politicizing the Plight of Angel Moms
June 23rd, 2018 3:35 PM
During Friday’s edition of The Lead With Jake Tapper, CNN political analyst Paul Begala reacted to President Trump’s meeting with the “angel moms” (and dads) who have lost their children as a result of crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Begala accused President Trump of “politicizing” these tragedies and using their pain to “divide America.”
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CNN Panel Rips into Melania for Wearing an ‘Old’ and Ugly Jacket
June 22nd, 2018 12:06 AM
First Lady Melania Trump caused a stir with the liberal media on Thursday when she wore a questionable jacket with “I really don’t care. Do you?” written on the back. She headed off to visit the children at the border who were separated from their parents. Of course, the gossip-prone media spend a considerable about of time trying to divine the secret meaning of the wardrobe choice and there were…
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Tapper: The Real Consequence of Strzok’s Bias Gave Us President Trump
June 15th, 2018 12:50 AM
With the Justice Department's Inspector General rocking Washington, D.C. on Thursday with a damning report exposing the anti-Trump bias of senior FBI investigators, many in the liberal media were desperate to spin the findings to fit their narrative. During CNN's The Lead, host Jake Tapper took one of the greatest leaps and suggested that the consequence of biased FBI members was the election of…
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