CBS’s Latest Trump Smear Unraveled in Less Than a Week
8th May 2024
journalism, is that their Trump Derangement Syndrome drives them to say things that are easily debunkable or quickly proven wrong.
Take, for example, CBS’s Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes. During her report last week fretting the effect the pro-Hamas campus protests might have upon President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, she threw in a 15-second non-sequitur accusing former President Donald Trump of making an “unfounded claim about campus demonstrators”- a fancier and more succinct “without evidence”. We flagged it the time, and memorialized it via X in anticipation of the inevitable: