On Thursday morning’s CNN Newsroom, hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto brought on presidential historian Douglas Brinkley to spout Democratic propaganda about President Trump in an effort to boost Joe Biden. Brinkley accused Trump of lacking “empathy,” despite Democratic failures in addressing COVID-19 and incitement of violence. Even more outrageously, Brinkley called Trump “an abomination,” and then praised Franklin Roosevelt, who interned 100,000 innocent Japanese-American citizens.
Sciutto began the segment by accusing Trump of not trying to “save lives”:
Coronavirus cases are surging in many states across the country, and right now just like the last several month is a crucial time for leader in this country to take action, action that could indeed save lives, but that leadership based on the facts, and the statements simply not coming from the White House despite and in contradiction to what the nation's top doctors and experts say.
If Sciutto wants to talk about not saving lives, how about starting with the Democrats? Due to Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York has had the most COVID-19 cases and deaths of any state. This is in part a result of his disastrous March 25th order to send recovering coronavirus patients to nursing homes, which resulted in 6,200 deaths in nursing homes. Some even estimate that he was responsible for around 12,000 nursing home deaths. California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, all run by Democratic governors, are among the leaders in both cases and deaths.
Brinkley then unabashedly attacked Trump:
It's not going to look very good for Donald Trump. Lack of leadership is being polite. He's been an abomination. Anything he could do to help the country has gone by the wayside. He's denied science. He was slow to react for two months, he refuses to wear a mask. He holds rallies in Arizona and Oklahoma that put people at risk. Marco Rubio today had to say for gosh sake, just wear the mask. Instead, the country has to turn to governors, mayors, other public health officials to try to get some guidance, and as we're seeing we're losing the COVID-19 fight. We're failing the rest of the world. We haven't had a coherent strategy. We've had no leadership. All of this has been the great inconvenience for Donald Trump. He was trying to put his head in the sand and pretend that this COVID could blow away. He didn't think it would help him politically to get re-elected in 2020 and so alas, we're now look being at the worst president in American history dealing with one of our worst crises, and it's frightening.
This is pure Democrat propaganda. Calling Trump “an abomination” and “the worst president in American history” would be fitting for a Joe Biden campaign ad, not a “news” network. It’s not difficult to tell whose side CNN is on in the upcoming election.
Brinkley then praised FDR in comparison to Trump:
Well, you know, with Franklin Roosevelt, the very fact that in 1921 he had polio, there was this vigorous young man, a great political career who suddenly couldn't walk, had to train himself just to kind of move a few feet forward, and so FDR developed this massive amount of empathy, so when the great depression struck and we had, you know, 25% unemployment, Roosevelt was feeling the pain of the poor, feeling the people that were afflicted and that lives were – were dissolving in front of them. Contrast that to Donald Trump.
So would Brinkley praise Trump if he put 100,000 people of a certain ethnicity in an internment camp? Exactly how much "empathy" did FDR have for the innocent American citizens he imprisoned?
The liberal hack then accused Trump of not being empathetic:
Trump shows zero empathy. He has an empathy deficit disorder. He lives in a biological bubble as Anderson Cooper’s been putting it quite aptly, meaning that he’s got testing and anything he needs around him and he doesn't seem to care about anybody else. So instead of you have nothing to fear but fear itself, he’s letting the country live in fear while he’s living in this sort of protective cocoon.
“No empathy?” Trump wants people to be able to make a living, while Democrats have advocated for longer lock downs, which have caused 46.5 million people to lose their jobs. It is easy for an academic elite to casually talk about such policies, but working class Americans need to work to get by.
And speaking of “empathy,” left-wing elites, including many in the media, from their safe, gated communities, have been calling for defunding the police and supported violent riots, looting, and the Seattle autonomous zone. The violence and property destruction that has ensued has not affected them of course, but it has ravaged everyday Americans. Those elites are not empathetic of course, they just care about people being angry and thinking the system is against them so that they can remain in power.
CNN continues to spew Democratic talking points against Trump but seems to be quite impressed with a Democratic hero who took away the constitutional rights of 100,000 people.
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The full transcript is here:
CNN
Newsroom
06/25/20
10:47:51 AM
JIM SCIUTTO: Coronavirus cases are surging in many states across the country, and right now just like the last several month is a crucial time for leader in this country to take action, action that could indeed save lives, but that leadership based on the facts, and the statements simply not coming from the White House despite and in contradiction to what the nation's top doctors and experts say.
POPPY HARLOW: For example, experts say wear masks. The president instead promotes and hosts several rallies with no mask requirements and doesn't wear a mask himself. With us now to talk about the broader picture here is Douglas Brinkley, CNN presidential historian. It's great to have you because you know how history judges presidents long after they are not in office anymore, and I wonder how you think history will look back at this moment and this leadership or lack of leadership when it comes to a public health crisis, one, the greatest we've seen in 100 years in this country.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY (CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN): It's not going to look very good for Donald Trump. Lack of leadership is being polite. He's been an abomination. Anything he could do to help the country has gone by the wayside. He's denied science. He was slow to react for two months, he refuses to wear a mask. He holds rallies in Arizona and Oklahoma that put people at risk. Marco Rubio today had to say for gosh sake, just wear the mask. Instead, the country has to turn to governors, mayors, other public health officials to try to get some guidance, and as we're seeing we're losing the COVID-19 fight. We're failing the rest of the world. We haven't had a coherent strategy. We've had no leadership. All of this has been the great inconvenience for Donald Trump. He was trying to put his head in the sand and pretend that this COVID could blow away. He didn't think it would help him politically to get re-elected in 2020 and so alas, we're now look being at the worst president in American history dealing with one of our worst crises, and it's frightening.
JIM SCIUTTO: You know Douglas, in past crises it -- it wasn't just considered duty it was considered politically smart for presidents to share and sacrifice, right? I mean during rationing in World War II, right, FDR rationed as well. I mean, you know, that was a badge of honor. Here you have Donald Trump reveling in the opposite, right? And kind of encouraging that kind of worst motivations. Just, no one has to do anything. I'm not going to do it myself. What -- what explains that to you?
BRINKLEY: Well, you know, with Franklin Roosevelt, the very fact that in 1921 he had polio, there was this vigorous young man, a great political career who suddenly couldn't walk, had to train himself just to kind of move a few feet forward, and so FDR developed this massive amount of empathy, so when the great depression struck and we had, you know, 25% unemployment, Roosevelt was feeling the pain of the poor, feeling the people that were afflicted and that lives were – were dissolving in front of them. Contrast that to Donald Trump. Trump shows zero empathy. He has an empathy deficit disorder. He lives in a biological bubble as Anderson Cooper’s been putting it quite aptly, meaning that he’s got testing and anything he needs around him and he doesn't seem to care about anybody else. So instead of you have nothing to fear but fear itself, he’s letting the country live in fear while he’s living in this sort of protective cocoon.
