CNN’s Jake Tapper known as out Trump for utilizing Putin as a personality witness within the felony instances in opposition to him.
Tapper opened CNN’s State Of The Union by saying, “Watch because the main Republican candidate Donald Trump quote one in every of our nation’s foremost adversaries, Vladimir Putin, as a form of character witness whereas on the stump in New Hampshire final evening.”
Trump stated, “Vladimir Putin, of Russia, stated that Biden, and this can be a quote, politically motivated persecution of his political rival is superb for Russia as a result of it reveals the rottenness of the American political system which couldn’t faux to show others about democracy.”
Tapper continued, “One may suppose such some extent needn’t be made however Vladimir Putin, a former Ok GB official with blood on his arms who recurrently sides with American adversaries each rhetorically and with arms and who proper now has no less than two People, Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan unjustly detained. Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be a reputable supply of details about American democracy, a lot much less American jurisprudence. Vladimir Putin seeks to undermine the USA and its allies, whether or not in Europe or Asia or the Center East. And but regardless of regardless of this or perhaps by now due to it, I can now not inform, Mr. Trump stands poised to do very properly within the Republican Iowa caucuses on January fifteenth in lower than a month.
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Jake Tapper calls out Trump for utilizing Putin as a personality witness, “The main Republican candidate Donald Trump quote one in every of our nation’s foremost adversaries, Vladimir Putin, as a form of character witness.” pic.twitter.com/YnMNoSIdih
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 17, 2023
Donald Trump is utilizing Putin to vouch for his character and his voters are applauding. That is the place the Republican Social gathering is, and the place that social gathering needs to take the USA if Donald Trump returns to the White Home.
Tapper was proper to name this out. Putin is unhealthy for America, and democracy doesn’t appear to be one thing that have to be stated, however it clearly must be as a result of so many different elements of the press insist on treating Trump like a standard candidate who shouldn’t be a risk to democracy.
Extra journalists on nationwide tv should be stating what they suppose is likely to be apparent, as a result of with so many others within the press normalizing and enabling Trump, what is apparent is getting buried below company lies for revenue.
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