On Wednesday morning’s New Day, CNN co-hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota brought on political correspondent Sara Murray to salivate over the supposedly tell-all book authored by President Trump's niece, Mary Trump. Scrapping all pretense of being journalists, the Democratic hacks eagerly lapped up the book's “revelations” without even questioning the truth of the wild accusations (like calling Trump a "sociopath"). Berman loved the claim that the President paid someone to take his SAT, but conveniently forgot Joe Biden’s disreputable academic reputation.
The morning show anchor began the segment by expressing his excitement for the “eye-popping” book:
Developing this morning, new details from an eye-popping book written by a member of the Trump family. The President’s niece, Mary Trump. She says her uncle is sociopath and claims he paid someone to take the SAT Test so he could get into Wharton. The book isn't even out yet but CNN's Sara Murray has read it. She is live in Washington with some of the details here. And Sara, I guess now we know why the President is so obsessed with people's college transcripts and obsessed with maybe keeping his own private.
Murray also seemed to be quite exhilarated when discussing the book's details:
You know, it certainly does have an interesting turnaround there doesn’t it. You know, you can see why the President did not want this book to come out. Mary Trump's portrait of the President and of the Trump family is certainly very unflattering. She basically says Fred Trump, the patriarch of this family, her grandfather, Donald Trump’s father, really created this toxic environment that led Donald Trump to become a liar, and a cheater, and a sociopath and she does not hold back on you know, releasing these sort of embarrassing anecdotes. And one of them is her allegation that Donald Trump actually paid another kid to take the SATS for him....Which of course is interesting in light of the fact that Donald Trump often brags about how he went to such an amazing school at the University of Pennsylvania....Mary Trump explains that she could not be silent any longer. She says that Donald Trump destroyed her father's life, that would be Donald Trump's sibling, Fred Trump Jr., and she said she cannot stand by while Donald Trump destroys the country.
Berman chortled over the academic allegations and played a clip of Trump discussing Barack Obama’s transcripts in order to mock him:
BERMAN: Look, it gets under the President's skin because the President has made such a colossal deal about how smart he thinks he is. He has all the best words, of course, maybe someone else is actually filling out the ovals and -- and figuring out what those words mean. But he also went after President Obama. He demanded President Obama's transcripts. So, I'm not a psychologist, but I'm sure that a psychologist could find some deflection in statements like this. I think we have the President talking about this when he was then just businessman Trump.
DONALD TRUMP: I heard at Columbia, wasn't a very good student. He then gets to Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you're not a good student? Now, maybe that's right or maybe it's wrong, but I don't know why he doesn't release his records. Everyone says he was this great student. If he was that’s great, and if he wasn't, that's great. I was a very good student.
BERMAN: Oh, my. Oh, my.
Berman clearly does not care whether or not the book is true. He only cares about making Trump look bad with the presidential election looming.
Speaking of the election, if Berman were to be an actual journalist instead of a Democratic mouthpiece, he could discuss Joe Biden’s academic record. Biden has plagiarized multiple speeches and was caught cheating in law school. He also lied about finishing in the top half of his class in law school.
Camerota ended the segment by discussing Mary Trump’s claim that the President is a “sociopath”:
Maybe this will make him release the transcripts of his college career. That would be interesting to see. You know, back to the -- the fact that she's a clinical psychologist. She labels him a sociopath, which means no conscience, no empathy.
Camerota does not care about the veracity of such a nasty insult, fact checking is not for Democratic shills. Instead, she ended the segment by calling the unverified claims “revelations.” This is characteristic of her, as she also fawned over John Bolton’s book about Trump and seemed to believe every negative claim without question.
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Here is the full July 8th transcript:
CNN New Day
07/08/20
6:26:31 AM
JOHN BERMAN: Developing this morning, new details from an eye-popping book written by a member of the Trump family. The President’s niece, Mary Trump. She says her uncle is sociopath and claims he paid someone to take the SAT Test so he could get into Wharton. The book isn't even out yet but CNN's Sara Murray has read it. She is live in Washington with some of the details here. And Sara, I guess now we know why the President is so obsessed with people's college transcripts and obsessed with maybe keeping his own private.
SARA MURRAY (CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT): You know, it certainly does have an interesting turnaround there doesn’t it. You know, you can see why the President did not want this book to come out. Mary Trump's portrait of the President and of the Trump family is certainly very unflattering. She basically says Fred trump, the patriarch of this family, her grandfather, Donald Trump’s father, really created this toxic environment that led Donald Trump to become a liar, and a cheater, and a sociopath and she does not hold back on you know, releasing these sort of embarrassing anecdotes. And one of them is her allegation that Donald Trump actually paid another kid to take the SATS for him. So here's what the book says. It says, Trump worried that his grade point average, which put him far from the top of his class, would scuttle his efforts to get accepted. Trump enlisted a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker to take his SATS for him. Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well. Which of course is interesting in light of the fact that Donald Trump often brags about how he went to such an amazing school at the University of Pennsylvania. Now, the White House is responding to this book. They said, President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people. Why speak out now? The president describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child. Well, in her book, Mary Trump explains that she could not be silent any longer. She says that Donald Trump destroyed her father's life, that would be Donald Trump's sibling, Fred Trump Jr., and she said she cannot stand by while Donald Trump destroys the country.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: Back to his aptitude as a student, Mary Trump names the kid who took the test for him, right? Does she use a name in this book about who she says did this?
MURRAY: She does. She names a guy named Joe Shapiro, who she says was one of Donald Trump's coworkers -- classmates at the time. You know, the White House did respond to this SAT thing in particular and they said it was absurd, which I think gives you an indication of how that little detail may be getting under the President's skin. But it is -- you know, a detailed anecdote for something that obviously happened a very long time ago.
BERMAN: Look, it gets under the President's skin because the President has made such a colossal deal about how smart he thinks he is. He has all the best words, of course, maybe someone else is actually filling out the ovals and -- and figuring out what those words mean. But he also went after President Obama. He demanded President Obama's transcripts. So, I'm not a psychologist, but I'm sure that a psychologist could find some deflection in statements like this. I think we have the President talking about this when he was then just businessman Trump.
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: I heard at Columbia, wasn't a very good student. He then gets to Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you're not a good student? Now, maybe that's right or maybe it's wrong, but I don't know why he doesn't release his records. Everyone says he was this great student. If he was that’s great, and if he wasn't, that's great. I was a very good student.
[Cuts to live]
BERMAN: Oh, my. Oh, my.
MURRAY: Yeah. Yeah. Donald Trump loves to brag about what a great student he was. And I think this is such an interesting portrait because Mary Trump, of course, is giving this view from inside the family. Now, granted, there's a lot of bad blood within the Trump family, but she's also, as you point out, giving her view as a clinical psychologist. So for anyone who's ever kind of wanted to play armchair psychologist to the President or has been curious about playing this role, I think this book kind of gives you an avenue in to do that. And she does pick at the things the President likes to brag about. You know, that he was a really good student, that he had really good grades. You know, she also, of course, digs into the family's wealth and the notion that Donald Trump, you know, was not actually this big, self-made billionaire. You know, he -- he didn't match the aura that he was giving off. And, actually, it was all of this family money and all of this money from his father that was helping to prop him up. So I think there are a lot of moments in this book that are -- that are the kinds of things that really bother the President.
CAMERATO: Maybe this will make him release the transcripts of his college career. That would be interesting to see. You know, back to the -- the fact that she's a clinical psychologist. She labels him a sociopath, which means no conscience, no empathy, and does she -- I mean we don’t -- we don't have much time, Sara, but does she say what caused that?
MURRAY: You know, she basically says that he has no disregard for other people and she ties a lot of this to the way that he was raised and to the way that Fred Trump raised him. You know, the notion that your value is all your monetary value and what you bring to the table. Your value is not, you know, your life as a human being.
CAMERATO: Sara, thank you very much. We will talk more about the book and its revelations in the program.
