The Left was enraged that ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump by agreeing to donate $15 million to a Trump “presidential foundation and museum” over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly claiming in a March interview that Trump was found “liable for rape.” That’s not accurate. But cable “news” partisans shrieked about Trump’s “authoritarian playbook.” Like suing a media outlet is authoritarian?
Stephanopoulos didn’t mention the settlement when he hosted This Week on Sunday. But he suggested to Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) that Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence had a problem. “Tulsi Gabbard has a history with Bashar al-Assad and his regime. She met with Assad, she has said supportive things about him, said he wasn’t an enemy of the United States.”
Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry also politely met with the murderous Syrian dictator, who was just deposed. But it gets more embarrassing for George. ABC’s Diane Sawyer fawned over Assad in a February 2007 interview: “You like video games?…Do you have an iPod? And you’re a country music fan. Faith Hill? Shania Twain?” Sawyer also fawned over Mrs. Assad the next day. So ABC should probably go easy on who was a pushover for the Syrian tyrant.
We also discuss how MSNBC loves AOC and how Politico is warning everyone that Kash Patel is the second coming of J. Edgar Hoover, sure to commit “egregious abuses of power.” The dominant fiction in today’s leftist media is that Biden’s Justice Department or FBI are nonpartisan, or nonpolitical. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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