Posted on 09/29/2019 10:01:54 AM PDT by rktman
During a special two-hour edition of The Lead Friday titled “The White House in Crisis,” host Jake Tapper and the panel repeatedly compared President Trump to former President Richard Nixon as they focused on the impeachment drama that has engulfed Washington and the media.
While they spent most of the segment making Trump-Nixon comparisons, the panel also noted a few differences in the situations faced by the current and former President. For instance, Tapper complained that unlike Nixon, President Trump has Fox News and conservative political websites to carry his water for him.
Eventually, Tapper asked the panel to weigh in on “the Republican reaction to this.” He singled out Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz as a member of “the Kool-Aid drinkers, the ones who will just defend President Trump no matter what.” Tapper proceeded to ask CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash if the Republicans she talked to understood that it “looks really, really bad” when they defend President Trump.
After Bash finished explaining the Republicans’ calculations on how to respond to the impeachment push, Tapper argued that while “Nixon had a much better legal apparatus to defend him, and Bill Clinton did as well, during their impeachments than President Trump has,” President Trump “has something that Nixon did not have. He has Fox News. He has an army of trolls. He has sites, web sites that will defend anything he says or does.”
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Unlike Nixon, Trump has done a few good things for the Country.
..... In other words .... Now there are ways for Republicans to fight back against the Democrat Socialist Propaganda ..... and their , ever popular, Anti American Kangaroo Courts that have, until now, been held with impunity ....
Trump as a bunch of angry people who feel cheated by the media, government and both parties. Fox and the web are the tools chosen by the angry people to get information that is closer to the truth.
Yeah, a few.
I felt depressed thinking that we were not hitting any bells in making the media feel uncomfortable.
By golly, it seems, we are being pretty successful at getting under their skin and I am smiling.
Sheesh Trapper! What “high crime” did Trump commit?
I swear, there should be a class action suit against MSM for malpractice! Seriously!
Fox was anti-Trump from the start.
I have never trusted Neocon Fox.
Right. And Dems have just about everything else. All the networks “except” Fox. Just about every newspaper you can think of. Hollyweird and fringe media (comic books and such). Tapper reveals how much the Left controls by pointing out the few things that lean right.
That was a classic. How long had it been?
I thought you were going to close with Vince Lombardi’s dictum:
“Winning isn’t everything. It’s the ONLY thing.”
Awwww. No fair, Trump! In the past, republicans had no way to thwart the 4th estate. Now they have a way to get the word out! What a bunch of weenies. (Though only some of FOX is on our side -— Bartiromo, Gutfeld, Hannity, Levin, Pirro, Ingraham, Tucker, FOX and Friends, and Dobbs, with occasional assistance from Kilmead, Watters, Hilton).
Providing the monsters at Google, Facebook, et al, don’t get their way.
He is kind of out there by himself.
Well, not exactly...there’s GOD.
Bush II?
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