In a sign of how poorly life has been going for the liberal media, two CNN guests lost their noodle on Monday with one saying President Trump surging law enforcement resources and National Guard members to Washington D.C. to fight crime was akin to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi “Germany in the 1930s” while another said Trump’s investigations of Russiagate promulgators and now John Bolton is “completely unprecedented.”
Former Acting Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau, retired Army Major General Randy Manner appeared on CNN multiple times Monday and it was during a hit on CNN News Central that he dropped the Nazi comparison.
Asked by co-host Brianna Keilar what he made of reports the Trump administration will have “specialized National Guard units around the country to ‘deal with public order issues.’” Manner shrieked this “is absolutely abhorrent” and “reminds me so much of what happened in Germany in the 1930s” with Trump “put[ting] [on] a show of force to anybody who opposes him.”
“He wants armed and uniformed military on the streets. If his true intent is all about law and order, then this should be what it is. It should be a law enforcement operation, not a military operation. He should restore the funds for community policing, for education, for the hiring of policemen and women in all of the jurisdictions,” he added.
Manner tossed out more fear-porn for CNN viewers, calling the use of the National Guard to curb crime “unconscionable” and “very disconcerting because we are not a nation that is run by the military” and antiethical to the “civil authority of duly elected leaders.”
Keilar further cued him up, wondering how Trump’s “politiciz[ing] military when the Trump Administration is only activating the Guard in cities that are in states with Democratic governors, but not in states with Republican governors even if those are cities that are significantly more violent.”
“[I]t is all about intimidating the people and the voters in the blue areas, the blue cities, the mayors, the governors that do not support his policies. It’s extremely clear that while this is legal action, he’s using it in that manner,” Manner replied.
A few hours later, infamous Zoom self-pleasurer Jeff Toobin screeched on AC360 that Trump’s federal government investigating those who served in past administrations was a “criminal crusade against political adversaries” that’s “completely unprecedented in — in — in all of American history.”
Toobin hilarious then conceded the raid against former Trump national security adviser John Bolton was done with “search warrants...approved by an independent magistrate, both in Washington and Maryland.” Nonetheless, she huffed this and investigating everyone from Senator Adam Schiff (D_CA) to Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to former President Obama “is absolutely unprecedented.”
Sure enough, former Trump 1.0 Homeland Security official Miles Taylor — aka “Anonymous” — is continuing his years-long grift to make the hearts of rich, white, liberal wine moms swoon (click “expand”):
ANDERSON COOPER: Miles, how concerned are — what happened to Bolton could happen to you?
TAYLOR: Anderson, we think it’s likely. I mean, we think that there’s a decent chance. I mean, if you know, past is any indicator of what the President’s done, we think this is certainly possible. But one of the things I want to point out is I think people can get a little disassociated from this whole thing when they focus on the elites who are being targeted. Maybe it worries the average American that John Bolton or Chris Christie or Senator Schiff or Miles Taylor is being targeted, but they don’t think it really affects them. That’s where I think people are wrong. This is affecting them. In the United States of America you don’t need a permission slip to criticize the President of the United States. But now, through his retributive actions, the President is making it as such and he’s warping every institution in our society. His revenge against the media affects the news you consume, his revenge against educational institutions, affects where you send your kids to school, his revenge against legal institutions might make it harder for you to get a lawyer. Heck, he’s sending troops into your cities. I mean, this campaign is going to touch every single American and by the way, if you think none of those things matter to you, did you ever like a tweet that was critical of Donald Trump? Have you ever friended someone on Facebook that’s critical of him? Well, next time there’s a tornado or a flood in your community, your aid, your disaster aid could be tied to that. That may sound crazy, but the President himself has said, he will start making aid decisions in the office of the President and we’ve already seen he wants to reward allies and punish enemies. This doesn’t just affect elites. This revenge campaign affects everyone.
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TAYLOR: [J]ust having the President order his agencies to investigate you is enough to detonate your life and in our case, it has meant that we’ve had stalkers coming after us, stalkers threatening my wife and my one-year-old daughter. We’ve had to hire a team of attorneys. You know, the business that I was running was destroyed by this. My business partners forced the dissolution of our company because they too were scared of being in Donald Trump’s crosshairs if they stayed associated with me. I’m the sole income earner in my household. I mean, really, really quickly, you watch these things unravel. You see friends, you see family members who you thought would be in the trenches run for the hills. The level of social fear, Anderson, in this second Trump administration is exponentially higher than the first. So once you’re added to that blacklist, it’s a wrecking ball to your life, regardless of whether they bring charges against you.
To see the relevant transcripts from August 25, click here (for CNN News Central) and here (for Anderson Cooper 360).
