On Friday morning’s New Day, CNN hosts Alisyn Camerota and John Berman brought on political commentator Errol Louis and global affairs analyst Susan Glasser to spew falsehoods about President Trump in order to promote Joe Biden. Camerota gloated over an editorial which called Biden “President-Elect” and Louis lied about the reason for the high number of COVID-19 caused deaths in New York.
Camerota smirked at an editorial calling Biden "president-elect." But first, she began the segment by touting Biden’s election chances in comparison to Trump:
President Trump seems to be in a very strange mind-set right now. I don't know if you would describe it as self-destructive, but he -- he has always called himself a numbers guy. He loves looking at the ratings. He sees the polls across the board, from Fox News to the New York Times, that his handling of this and of course the, you know, the racial moment that we're in, are hurting him.
Glasser responded by implying that even Trump knows that Biden is ahead of him:
What Trump seems to be almost in denial, not that he's in trouble, but about what to do about it. I, you know, watched him for an hour and his good friend Sean Hannity's show last night, and you know, several times, he even referred to the idea that Biden might be winning, well, maybe he's winning because people don't like me.
Berman even claimed that people dying due to coronavirus is Trump’s fault:
So here's the thing, though. If it were only self-destructive, that would be one thing. If it were just poor campaign strategy, that would be one thing. But people are getting sick, Errol. People are dying in this country. 124,000 people -- I'm looking at the screen right now -- have now died in this country. The President won't wear a mask in public. The President won't say that we should have more testing. The President barely acknowledges that this is spreading. He had a campaign rally and every campaign staffer there is now in self-quarantine. He is putting people in harm's way. They are getting sick because, in some cases, of the decisions that he has made.
Berman, in his effort to spout Democratic propaganda about Trump, failed to acknowledge that most of the leading states for coronavirus cases and deaths are Democratic run states. These states are New York, California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. But why would he use facts when he is shamelessly advocating for Biden? It does not matter to him that Biden has not offered any concrete solutions for COVID, other than bashing Trump’s common sense China travel ban. Or, he’s too busy distorting the data on coronavirus cases.
Louis then flat out lied about why New York has been hit so hard by the virus by blaming Trump:
That's correct. And look, at some point, people have to take some responsibility for this. It is heartbreaking for me talking to you from my home, where I've been for a number of months, since our whole company up here in New York have been sent home, to --to see tens of thousands of people lost in New York, New York City alone, in just a matter of weeks. It is shocking what happens. It happens so quickly. The -- the morgues are overwhelmed, the funeral homes are overwhelmed. Refrigerated trucks are set up outside of hospitals. Medical staff themselves start to perish. Friends, coworkers, neighbors, gone. It happens so quickly.
If Louis wants to blame someone, he should blame New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo. On March 25th, Cuomo signed an executive order which sent recovering COVID patients to nursing homes. The deadly blunder resulted in at least 6,200 nursing home deaths. Some estimates put the death total as high as 12,000. But this does not matter to CNN because Democrats love Cuomo. CNN has repeatedly refused to hold Cuomo accountable for the grisly results of his failure.
Camerota then triumphantly discussed an article that called Biden the “President-Elect”:
The Wall Street Journal, right-leaning newspaper, has an editorial this morning that talks about the lack of leadership. It says President Trump may soon need a new nickname for sleepy Joe Biden. How does President-Elect sound? On present trend, that's exactly what Mr. Biden will be on November 4th, as Mr. Trump heads for what could be an historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him. That is notable.
Camerota did not even try to hide her enthusiasm about the editorial. Of course, that is her and CNN’s candidate, and they have not obscured their preference. Why be a news network when CNN can function as the propaganda arm of its preferred party?
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The full transcript is here:
CNN New Day
06/26/20
6:24:30 AM
ALISYN CAMEROTA: The United States just recorded the highest number of new cases since the pandemic began. And sources tell CNN that President Trump is aware that his handling of the coronavirus pandemic is hurting his standing in the polls, but he seems unwilling to change course. Joining us now is CNN political commentator Errol Louis and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser, she’s a staff writer for the New Yorker. Susan, President Trump seems to be in a very strange mind-set right now. I don't know if you would describe it as self-destructive, but he -- he has always called himself a numbers guy. He loves looking at the ratings. He sees the polls across the board, from Fox News to the New York Times, that his handling of this and of course the, you know, the racial moment that we're in, are hurting him. Yet, he continues to do nothing. What- how do we explain that?
SUSAN GLASSER (CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST, NEW YORKER STAFF WRITER): Well Alisyn –
CAMEROTA: Go ahead, go ahead Susan.
GLASSER: Oh yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. So, listen, I think you've hit on something really important here. What Trump seems to be almost in denial, not that he's in trouble, but about what to do about it. I, you know, watched him for an hour and his good friend Sean Hannity's show last night, and you know, several times, he even referred to the idea that Biden might be winning, well, maybe he's winning because people don't like me. But it collides with another central aspect of President Trump’s personality, right? Which is that he never wants to admit that he's in the wrong. He never wants to change course. He doesn't want to say, you know, I am not following the right tact. He had a plan for June, and it was a great reopening of America, transitioning to greatness, even after the debacle of his rally in Tulsa. This week, you've seen him actually double down on his approach. He's going to go down -- he seems to be indicating to us, name calling and finger pointing and denying until the very end. It's really striking that that's the course he's chosen, even as Republicans are starting to groan ever more loudly and say, basically, hey, buddy, you know, give us some relief here. Change course.
JOHN BERMAN: So here's the thing, though. If it were only self-destructive, that would be one thing. If it were just poor campaign strategy, that would be one thing. But people are getting sick, Errol. People are dying in this country. 124,000 people -- I'm looking at the screen right now -- have now died in this country. The president won't wear a mask in public. The president won't say that we should have more testing. The president barely acknowledges that this is spreading. He had a campaign rally and every campaign staffer there is now in self-quarantine. He is putting people in harm's way. They are getting sick because, in some cases, of the decisions that he has made.
ERROL LOUIS (CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR): That's correct. And look, at some point, people have to take some responsibility for this. It is heartbreaking for me talking to you from my home, where I've been for a number of months, since our whole company up here in New York have been sent home, to --to see tens of thousands of people lost in New York, New York City alone, in just a matter of weeks. It is shocking what happens. It happens so quickly. The -- the morgues are overwhelmed, the funeral homes are overwhelmed. Refrigerated trucks are set up outside of hospitals. Medical staff themselves start to perish. Friends, coworkers, neighbors, gone. It happens so quickly. People have to recognize that that's real. It's not a political slogan, it's not propaganda. Frankly, it's not even related to the -- the, what the president says. Reality is here staring people in the face and we've got a president who's off on some other track. He's not acknowledging it. He's mired in his own political problems, which are severe. Many of which are of his own making, but people are going to have to really wake up and -- and no leadership is coming from the White House. You’re gonna have to look to your governor, your local public health officials, your friends, what information you can find from trusted sources. Not the White House. Definitely not the White House.
CAMEROTA: Susan, it's very interesting, The Wall Street Journal, right-leaning newspaper, has an editorial this morning that talks about the lack of leadership. It says President Trump may soon need a new nickname for sleepy Joe Biden. How does President-Elect sound? On present trend, that's exactly what Mr. Biden will be on November 4th, as Mr. Trump heads for what could be an historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him. That is notable.
GLASSER: Absolutely, it's notable. Generally speaking, the remarkable thing about The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page is that it had been anti-Trump originally, but it had been trending more towards, you know, supporting the president in the last couple of years and so I do think it's a wake-up call that, by the way, this has use for President Trump's allies politically. I think it's important to note that, you know, scaring him a little bit with these numbers, using that to scare his faithful base, as well, is -- is not entirely politically useless at this moment, number one. So there is some value, even for the Republicans' campaign in serving as a wake-up call right now. Secondly, though, you have to acknowledge right now the political geography of the pandemic is changing in ways that are deeply threatening for Trump's re-election. It was one thing when, you know, in a terrible, political calculation he looked at the initial outbreak of the pandemic and saw it mainly in urban areas, heavily Democratic-run states like New York and California and Washington state. It's another thing entirely now that the politics are going to shift along with the epidemic itself. We're talking about states like South Carolina, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, and Texas, which are among the leading growth states right now for the pandemic. And, of course, those are all must-win states for Donald Trump this fall. So, you know, is the political imperative and the terrible numbers of disease right now going to change the political need for the president to do something? I do think that's the moment we're in. And his advisers must be extremely alarmed when they see where this disease is headed.
