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CNN seems to be Picking up where Fox left off [1]

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Date: 2023-05-10

• CNN CEO Chris Licht said last year he won’t allow CNN guests and panelists to push disinformation. • Former President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall on the network Wednesday. -- cnbc.com

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How quickly CNN forgets … Will these edicts issued by the twice-impeached serial liar, even be mentioned by CNN hosts? My money is no, NOT brought up — no way, no how. To do so would disrupt the “dignity” of this pandering event. An event “starring” the Caveman-in-Chief, by his own admissions. Way to go CNN, way to remake CNN in the image of disgraced Fox News … PS. Fox wouldn’t bring up these Constitutional edicts either. Why bother the low-info voter with such petty details. No harm, no foul. Afterall, it hasn’t happened — YET! Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post

by Kristen Holmes , CNN — Dec 4, 2022

CNN — Former President reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories. Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election andSaturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories. “Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution ,” Trump wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social and accused “Big Tech” of working closely with Democrats. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” [...] Earlier this week Trump expressed support for the rioters behind the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, saying in a video played during a fundraiser that “People have been treated unconstitutionally in my opinion and very, very unfairly, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.” In a September interview, Trump said he was “financially supporting” some January 6 defendants and promised he would issue pardons and a government apology to those being prosecuted if he were reelected.

Trump insists he doesn’t want to ‘terminate’ Constitution

by Brett Samuels, The Hill — 12/05/22

Former President Donald Trump on Monday denied he wanted to “‘terminate’ the Constitution,” two days after suggesting “the termination of all rules ... even those found in the Constitution .” [...] “I must tell you that I think that everyone that serves in public office, everyone that aspires to serve or serve again, should make it clear that we will support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Pence said on a South Carolina radio show on Monday morning. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who defeated a Trump-backed challenger in November, said suggesting the termination of the Constitution “is not only a betrayal of our Oath of Office, it’s an affront to our Republic.” Trump has for years claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him and that Hunter Biden colluded with his father over his business dealings, though there is no proof of either. But his calls for the Constitution to be ignored so he could be returned to power marked a new level of incendiary rhetoric .

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This ongoing threat to American ideals needs to be repeated a hundred times — and every time this Traitor to Democracy is given one ounce of credibility as a serious candidate — like CNN is about to do with its Town Hall event.

To give the serial liar this “stage of normality” is like giving dry lightning wildfires, hot Santa Ana winds. It’s like reintroducing the Plague to America, because the Dark Ages were simply “character-building episodes” in the long story of Freedom and Democracy.

To give Donald Trump such a “rehabilitation stage” — is like pretending the predator has “Never told a Lie” — you know, just like George Washington. Both belong on our coinage, because both were cut from the same cloth, right Licht?

The Celebrity Apprentice has nothing but ill-intent for America. The hats say MAGA, but MAHA is really their new agenda. The H-word stands for Hate. At the Waco kick-off event the would-be Mob Boss version 2.0, just told us his mission — to get his “Retribution” for “the imagined injustice” of actually being voted out of office.

Because the Biggest Loser cannot accept that: “The people have spoken, and voted the failed Coup-leader off the Island ...”

And here comes CNN, to sneak him back into the Tribal Council, using their Producer’s prerogative. The guy gets clicks. The guy is their Reality Show villain, the foil, the one-man wrecking crew, with the ego the size of Mt Rushmore. So it only makes sense from their new “center-right” demographic targeting goals.

When do ordinary Americans get our accountability for this law-breaking, train-wreck of a Sore Loser? The guy would tear it all down, just to get his pound of flesh.

Instead of holding Trump to account, CNN is giving him the keys to the bulldozer.

Some politicians in DC are calling the ongoing threat what it is, but not far enough. Given the Constitutional harms inflicted — and yet still to be rendered ...

x Donald Trump believes we should terminate “all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution” to overturn the 2020 election. That was his view on 1/6 and remains his view today. No honest person can now deny that Trump is an enemy of the Constitution. — Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) December 4, 2022

Trump’s ceaseless incendiary statements should be plastered on billboards and news crawls, from now til Election Day — and not whitewashed away like CNN is about to do, like it never even happened.

Nevermind, then. That was then, this is the just the “Next Chapter” …

Trump DID happen. Anyone at CNN remember January 6th? Give him a second time around, the president-for-life will finish what he started. The ego-maniac will exact his revenge. We haven’t seen nothing yet.

CNN is choosing to promote this Trump “rehabilitation tour” — much to their shame and discredit. Perhaps they should read their own reporting on this ongoing threat to Law and Order, to Democracy ... and to everything that is “still great” in America:

Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post

CNN reports, CNN Decides. It doesn’t really matter.

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