CNN Democrat Commentator: Trump Might Envy Putin, Wishes He Could Murder Foes
20th February 2024
In the 2 pm hour of CNN News Central on Monday, their Democrat commentator Maria Cardona came unglued about how fiendishly Donald Trump supports Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. CNN Republican analyst Alice Stewart staunchly denounced Putin as a murderous tyrant.
CNN then played a package of video clips (mostly from 2019) they implied were Putin endorsements. Several were Trump claiming Putin “out-smarted Obama” when he took Crimea. They hated that idea when Trump said it originally. The Almighty Obama is never outsmarted. (Angry Yamiche Alcindor was Exhibit A.)
Several of the clips were Trump saying he had a “good” or “lively” conversation with the Russian leader, which isn’t really an endorsement. It’s diplomat-speak. If Biden said he had a “good meeting” with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, would CNN suggest that is like endorsing a dictator? All this was a setup for Cardona to make wild statements about Trump’s love for murdering rivals, and no one interrupted to say they can’t air these false statements as a news network.