Proving how sleazy and scummy they were, CNN disrupted night four of the Republican National Convention to launch a disgusting attack on Ann Dorn, the widow of retired police Captain David Dorn. Her crime? Daring to speak about the radical leftist mobs torching American cities, and who killed her husband as he defended their pawn shop during the George Floyd riots.
Shortly before Mrs. Dorn spoke, consistently shoddy host Jake Tapper interjected an attempt to defuse her upcoming remarks. Turning to senior political reporter Abby Phillip, Tapper came back from a commercial break and teed up the hit job:
We are back with our coverage of the Republican National Convention. We are awaiting President Trump's speech delivered unusually from the South Lawn of the White House. And Abby, one of the upcoming speakers is a woman named Ann Dorn, she’s the widow of a retired police captain who was killed in St. Louis, David Dorn. What else can you tell us about her and her late husband?
Phillips responded by cautioning viewers about Ann. “Her story or the story of her husband was something that really captured the imagination of conservatives during the George Floyd protests earlier this summer,” she warned.
Ignoring how the Democratic National Convention featured the daughter of a Trump supporter, who blamed his COVID death on the President (she also chided her own father for his vote), Phillip denounced how the families of victims of violence were speaking at the RNC:
But one of the things about having so many victims or the families of victims speaking at this convention is that, the victims themselves are obviously no longer here with us to say how they would feel about it. And two of David Dorn's children, apparently, Debra and Lisa have both said that their father was not a Trump supporter and that they do not think he would have wanted his legacy to be used in a political fashion at a political convention in this way.
“But again, it’s one of those things where, you know, he’s not here, unfortunately, to speak for himself and his children are not going to be here to speak with her,” Phillip continued, smearing the widow as besmirching her husband’s memory.
As a follow up to Phillip, Tapper again decried how many African-Americans were speaking at the convention, essentially complaining that the party was not allowing the media to paint them as racist. He had the same complaint on night one following the speeches from former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC).
“And so many African-American speakers this week, disproportionate to their membership in the Republican Party and certainly in the Trump administration,” he whined.
Phillip agreed that the point of having a litany diverse speakers was to provide racial cover and convince white women vote for Trump (Click “expand”):
PHILLIP: Yeah. And as you've said it is sort of asking people to not believe what they are experiencing. And it’s a challenge, but there are also questions about whether this is really aimed at African-Americans so much as it might be aimed at white Americans, white women who are concerned about seeming like they are contributing to racial strife by supporting President Trump.
So, it is obviously, you can see it in all these different speakers, they've taken great care to find as many voices as they can to speak to this. People who know the President. People who don't. And their stories are important and notable but we should also say, as you said, it is not actually representative of the Republican Party. Or, for that matter, the President's own cabinet. There are not many African-Americans serving in the President's cabinet or senior levels of government right now, and that's been the case since President Trump came into office.
That accusation in and of itself was racist. But then again, this is CNN.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN’s America's Choice 2020: Republican National Convention: Night 4
August 27, 2020
9:16:06 p.m. Eastern [3 minutes, 21 Seconds]JAKE TAPPER: We are back with our coverage of the Republican National Convention. We are awaiting President Trump's speech delivered unusually from the South Lawn of the White House. And Abby, one of the upcoming speakers is a woman named Ann Dorn, she’s the widow of a retired police captain who was killed in St. Louis, David Dorn. What else can you tell us about her and her late husband?
ABBY PHILLIP: Yeah, Ann Dorn is going to be one of these very emotional speakers. Her story or the story of her husband was something that really captured the imagination of conservatives during the George Floyd protests earlier this summer.
But one of the things about having so many victims or the families of victims speaking at this convention is that, the victims themselves are obviously no longer here with us to say how they would feel about it. And two of David Dorn's children, apparently, Debra and Lisa have both said that their father was not a Trump supporter and that they do not think he would have wanted his legacy to be used in a political fashion at a political convention in this way.
But again, it’s one of those things where, you know, he’s not here, unfortunately, to speak for himself and his children are not going to be here to speak with her. But this is going to be a really kind of one of those key, core messages that is going to be tying together the law and order idea and also this idea that protesters or rioters are ravaging American cities.
TAPPER: And so many African-American speakers this week, disproportionate to their membership in the Republican Party –
PHILLIP: Yeah.
TAPPER: -- and certainly in the Trump administration. So much of this seems geared towards trying to convince people that, despite the fact that so many Americans think that President Trump is racist -- to be frank -- he's not. We keep hearing people who are African-American who know the President and are saying, ‘I wish you could see the Trump that I see.’
PHILLIP: Yeah. And as you've said it is sort of asking people to not believe what they are experiencing. And it’s a challenge, but there are also questions about whether this is really aimed at African-Americans so much as it might be aimed at white Americans, white women who are concerned about seeming like they are contributing to racial strife by supporting President Trump.
So, it is obviously, you can see it in all these different speakers, they've taken great care to find as many voices as they can to speak to this. People who know the President. People who don't. And their stories are important and notable but we should also say, as you said, it is not actually representative of the Republican Party. Or, for that matter, the President's own cabinet. There are not many African-Americans serving in the President's cabinet or senior levels of government right now, and that's been the case since President Trump came into office.
TAPPER: Yeah. I think I read a New York Times reporter saying, so much of this seems aimed at insulating the President and the Republican Party from target, from accusations of racism, not necessarily trying to actually reach out to African-Americans themselves. Let's rejoin the convention now.
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