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CNN's Jake Tapper: I'm Not Blaming Trump For Five Dead Ukrainians, But...
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/17/2025 3:16:15 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

It's said that when someone makes a positive or neutral statement, then follows it with a "but," what follows negates what went before, and reflects the speaker's real opinion.

Thus it was that on Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, host Jake Tapper three times mentioned that Russian attacks killed five Ukrainians after President Trump's meeting with Putin ended without a ceasefire.

In his final mention, Tapper said to Mike Pence:

"I'm not blaming it on President Trump,it's obviously President Putin's fault. But, if the ceasefire had happened on Friday, those five Ukrainians would be alive."

Gotcha, Jake. You're not blaming Trump for five dead Ukrainians, but . . . you'll let viewers read between the lines: yeah, it kinda is Trump's fault.

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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Jake Tapper...Mike Pence...
Two peas in a pod, IMHO...

Anti-American scumbags...
Although the American Scumbags Society (ASS) might get pissed at me...

21 posted on 08/17/2025 4:04:50 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: stanne

“What is pence’s role in life.”

Whatever Mrs. Pence tells him to do.


22 posted on 08/17/2025 4:05:17 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jake, but, if pigs had wings, we might call them eagles.


23 posted on 08/17/2025 4:07:17 PM PDT by kawhill ("Of the camp it knew, where were the other food-providers and fire-providers".)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does that idiot understand that a cease fire is a total JOKE you can break a cease fire within TWO seconds..just ask Hamas..yet its hilarious with these commies gee Jake, if Biden hadnt screwed up the Afghan withdrawal 13 American troops would NOT have been murdered, any comment or nah cant blame Biden for that


24 posted on 08/17/2025 4:09:55 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Soul of the South

“Whatever Mrs. Pence tells him to do.”

I caught her at the 2020 Jul 4 White House celebration as President Trump introduced them. Vice President and Mrs Karen

No one hates Trump more than she does if her “if looks could kill, Trump would be dead” look is any measurement

Whoa.


25 posted on 08/17/2025 4:10:08 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Let’s not forget that Biden allowed a “Small incursion” into Ukraine, he BEGGED Putin to go in


26 posted on 08/17/2025 4:10:29 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: stanne

To spew Deep State globalist talking points.


27 posted on 08/17/2025 4:14:47 PM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jakes throws another dart and misses for the 14,529th time in a row.

Can you imagine getting paid to miss constantly.


28 posted on 08/17/2025 4:26:22 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They have to get all their negativity out fast, something good could happen at any time and ruin everything for them.


29 posted on 08/17/2025 4:27:27 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: stanne
"What is pence’s role in life.."

To remind us what a traitor and scumbag Judas Iscariot was..

...He even has 30 strands of silver hair draped over his thick skull.

30 posted on 08/17/2025 4:32:18 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s said that when someone makes a positive or neutral statement, then follows it with a “but,” what follows negates what went before …

That’s retarded. Maybe if you can’t read, or comprehend words and distinctions.


31 posted on 08/17/2025 4:32:25 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If ifs were 5ths, we’d all be drunk.


32 posted on 08/17/2025 4:33:08 PM PDT by stylin19a ("Death Smiles At Everyone - Marines Smile Back" - 250 years of smiling - 11/10/2025)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is the point where somebody ought to step in and say, “Don’t you know there’s a war on?”


33 posted on 08/17/2025 4:45:10 PM PDT by x
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I love the left.

1. Don’t make peace — keep this war going! Trump wants to surrender. Putin owns him. blah blah blah

2. OTOH, Trump didn’t stop the war. Bad Trump. So he’s responsible for every death caused by the war.


34 posted on 08/17/2025 4:46:22 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: kiryandil

Jake the Liberal snake ”KNEW” Joe Biden was a senile chump the whole time! Look for his book in the Fiction section at the bargain book store.


35 posted on 08/17/2025 5:30:21 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He made his money on his book and now it’s back to the same old sh*t. Bias is an incurable disease when it comes to him and his media running dogs.The media is the only entity keeping the Democrat Party on life support. Destroy the media and and the Democrat Party goes down with that ship


36 posted on 08/17/2025 5:47:41 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Trump is the only realist in the bunch and this is why we always say Trump doesn’t bluff. The reason why he’s not going hard here is because he has an extremely weak hand. His base doesn’t care a lick about what happens in Ukraine and even those who are all in on Ukraine aren’t willing to cut social security benefits or raise taxes to pay to support their war effort. No one, no one wants US troops in Ukraine to fight Russians and Europe and US blew a huge wad of sanctions and escalatory steps in the first 2 months of the war. Based on that what exactly is Trump going to do? Not to mention Russia has been holding 20-25% of Ukraine for 2 years. The fact that Putin is at the table at all is pretty good. They want Trump to hit them with secondary sanctions in order to prevent Russian oil to get into the hands of Europe, China and India. Europe could stop all on their own you know. Europe can also stop trading with China and India bc without Trump putting sanctions on them but they don’t want to damage relations with those countries because they use those countries in negotiations with US in trade.spare me the it’s all Trumps fault nonsense.


37 posted on 08/17/2025 6:09:44 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

How does this guy even have a job still?


38 posted on 08/18/2025 4:35:40 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: stanne

To torment patriots who love the United States


39 posted on 08/18/2025 9:31:23 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: TexasGator

“Three years of fighting and Russia has lost territory”

Is this Schrödinger’s Russia, LOL?

Spoiler alert: Alternate realities exist only in science fiction


40 posted on 08/18/2025 9:41:58 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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