Posted on 10/12/2026 4:43:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Jake Tapper might have thought he was going to put the DHS Secretary on the spot. Instead, Markwayne Mullin administered a master class to CNN's State of the Union host today.
The topic was ICE's operation against Oscar Belgal, an illegal Dominican immigrant wanted on multiple charges. ICE agents accosted him in his car, and when he tried to flee, running into other cars, an agent fired and superficially wounded him. Belgal was taken into custody.
Incredibly, Tapper began by defending Belgal's actions
"Do you see how for anyone, a bunch of men not clearly identified as with the government, as with ICE, banging on windows with a gun, might cause anyone to flee?"
Mullin wasn't buying Tapper's take: "Jake, what you're not understanding is the full gravity of the situation. Oscar had already fled once before, just a month ago. He knew that officers were looking for him. He understood that he was a wanted man."
Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper tried to put the DHS Secretary on the spot over an ICE operation—and walked right into a Markwayne Mullin masterclass. Unloading a wagon-full of facts, Mullin demolished Tapper’s second-guessing.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Fact Wagon.
Thats a new one!
I’ll have to file that with “destroyed,” “decimated,” “melts down,” “schooled,” and similar hyperbole obscuring that nothing has changed.
At least it’ll garner clicks.
We can use him in my small NC town. Our resident know-it-all passed away recently.
Don’t forget “annihilated.”
Mullins obliterated Fake Tapper...
Jake Crapper — Always ready to defend criminals and deadbeats against authorities trying to enforce immigration law.
Jake says, this IS my happy face.
“nothing has changed.”
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Wrong !
Before I read tapped took more learning up his tap I was t smiling
I am now
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Jake is a socialist who is trying to hold on to his job.
Jake is a socialist who is trying to hold on to his job.
How stoopid of me.
I’ll never be smart.
What a total loser.
Seriously, I was thinking of doing a post on political hyperbole. You’ve motivated me to do it. Watch this space.
It’ll annihilate people. /sarc.
Jake is the perfect CNN drone. Arrogant, condescending and totally and proudly ignorant of any facts.
Jake is the perfect CNN drone. Arrogant, condescending and totally and proudly ignorant of any facts.
Maybe someday a conservative will buy CNN and hire people who have a few brain cells to rub against each other... We can dream, right?
:)
He was a thug, he was a gangbanger, and he had only been in the country for three years, and he had this long of a rap sheet and had been released multiple times by New York State. At the same time, he was on probation. So you couldn't have got a worse of a worse thug than this, than Oscar is.
Jake Tapper defends these illegal alien criminals b/c he is able to live far away from them in a low-crime area and in housing with high security and armed guards.
He's A-OK with the state and city government of New York releasing these violent criminals onto the streets to prey on innocent American citizens.
NOTE TO JAKE:
THE BEARD DOES NOT MAKE YOU LOOK MORE MANLY
NOT EVEN CLOSE
The CNN audience would not accept such a thing.
from above link:
CNN has a new owner: Skydance.
After a tumultuous, roughly yearlong process, Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday. And beyond Hollywood, the mega merger brings two titans of the American TV news landscape — CBS and CNN — under the same roof.
Politics are also top of mind. The billionaire family of Skydance CEO David Ellison has a cozy relationship with President Donald Trump — who has been far from shy about targeting coverage he deems unfavorable from both CNN and CBS. Last month, his administration moved to bar CNN from the White House. And the network’s new ownership arrives as coverage ramps up less than a month ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Still, Skydance’s corporate leaders are to choose who sits on this board. And critics are bracing for potentially deepening editorial turmoil.
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