Critics said Tapper was supporting Conway’s harsh characterization of Trump, who has frequently ripped Conway himself.
Tapper insisted Conway’s barb “seems newsworthy given how many people in the administration he knows.”
“I RTed Conway, a conservative attorney and Trump critic, because he wrote that no one in the administration has the courage to stand up to the president which seems newsworthy given how many people in the administration he knows,” Tapper tweeted, attempting to explain his motives. “RTs do not nec. = agreement.”
The critics included Johnathan Turley, the only Republican witness during the House impeachment hearings.
Turley, a George Washington University law professor and a contributor to The Hill, ripped Tapper, saying his retweet “only further undermines the media by reaffirming for many that the media is campaigning against Trump rather than covering him.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper is a fraud. Early in his career, as a mouthpiece for a leftwing congresswoman and propagandist for Handgun Control, Inc., he was an openly partisan... https://t.co/gkkGaHvOZ2— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 27, 2018
“conservative lawyer George Conway”
GTFOH
Inasmuch as Turley is a lifelong Democrat, Tapper's is obviously an opportunistic and misleading smear-comment. Only with the hyper-technical twist that the Republicans were pleased to let Turley speak does Tapper's comment have any truth at all.