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CNN panelist admits Dems used Trump trials to derail campaign
Sky News ^ | May 16, 2025

Posted on 05/18/2025 12:13:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

CNN panelist and Democrat strategist Lis Smith has sparked backlash after appearing to admit on-air Donald Trump’s criminal trials were designed to upend his reelection.

Ms Smith made the remarks during a recent episode of CNN's The Arena with Kasie Hunt.

"Like we [Democrats] resisted so hard between 2017 and 2024, we impeached the guy, like, prosecuted him, convicted him on 34 felony counts, and guess what? He still got elected," she said.

Republican strategist and fellow CNN panellist Scott Jennings immediately called Smith out on-air for saying the quiet part out loud.

"Everybody who now touts the 34 felonies, take it from Liz. This was not a real case. This was a plot to upend the presidential campaign, which backfired," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at skynews.com.au ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arrestericholder; arrestlisamonaco; arrestmerrickgarland; democrats; harassment; lawfare; lissmith; persecution; trump
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1 posted on 05/18/2025 12:13:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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which backfired.

Really? Where is the smoking coyote, augered in at the bottom of a canyon with the anvil about to land on him?

2 posted on 05/18/2025 12:20:14 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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The rats fight dirty. That’s why we call them rats. Trump fights back and they call it dirty. I don’t see him doing underhanded stuff like his opponents.


3 posted on 05/18/2025 12:20:34 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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"Like we [Democrats] resisted so hard between 2017 and 2024, we impeached the guy, like, prosecuted him, convicted him on 34 felony counts, tried to blow his brains on out live TV and guess what? He still got elected,"

Okay, I added the part in bold.

4 posted on 05/18/2025 12:21:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Donald Trump’s criminal trials were designed to upend his reelection.


Is there anyone sentient who doesn’t know this to be the case? This isn’t a ‘quiet par out loud’ moment rather a, ‘Well duh’ moment.


5 posted on 05/18/2025 12:23:02 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Braking news.


6 posted on 05/18/2025 12:24:46 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Of course they did.


7 posted on 05/18/2025 12:27:52 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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I am so sick of hearing about the 34 felony counts with no pushback by any supposed conservative. It was one payment, which Trump himself did not even make. sent out in installments.


8 posted on 05/18/2025 12:28:44 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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The Bolsheviks at CNN trying to be Tass


9 posted on 05/18/2025 12:33:15 PM PDT by Vaduz
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No kidding. Really? How stealthy those Dems are


10 posted on 05/18/2025 12:52:44 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: MinorityRepublican

like anyone with a brain didnt know that.


11 posted on 05/18/2025 12:55:46 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: hanamizu

In other news. The sky is blue.


12 posted on 05/18/2025 1:06:38 PM PDT by calljack (Stealing the 2020 Election will go down in history as the worst political miscalculation of all time)
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Saying out loud what everybody already knew, even most democrats.

Only those born yesterday didn’t know.


13 posted on 05/18/2025 1:12:43 PM PDT by adorno ( )
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Trump has to fight back since NO congressional Republicans will.


14 posted on 05/18/2025 1:26:16 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

link is whacked...

https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/cnn-panelist-admits-dems-used-trump-trials-to-derail-campaign/video/f6732e911c7f3da1517921d04d8d8b1c


15 posted on 05/18/2025 1:30:54 PM PDT by stylin19a ("Death Smiles At Everyone - Marines Smile Back" - 250 years of smiling - 11/10/2025)
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We all knew that. At least, everybody on FR knew that was their strategy.


16 posted on 05/18/2025 1:47:00 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: AndyJackson

“ Really? Where is the smoking coyote, augered in at the bottom of a canyon with the anvil about to land on him?”

Sitting at home without a security clearance trying to stay relevant by going on MSNBC as a foreign policy expert.


17 posted on 05/18/2025 3:19:31 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Send members of DNC-13 to Club Gitmo.)
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Well, that’s some sort of hell, I guess. It would be for me.


18 posted on 05/18/2025 3:21:52 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Page not found

Either the URL is incorrect, there’s a technical issue, or the page is no longer available.


19 posted on 05/18/2025 3:22:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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And you didn’t think that We the People didn’t know that? That’s why the demoncRATS were soundly defeated because the people got tired of the demoncRATS games played against President Trump.


20 posted on 05/18/2025 7:53:01 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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