Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, the network’s political analyst Matthew Dowd accused President Trump of having an “obsession” with Russia “hacking” the presidential election. Without a hint of irony, Dowd added that Trump was the “one person” that “questioned Trump’s legitimacy the most,” seemingly forgetting that he himself has questioned Trump’s legitimacy over and over again on GMA since November.
After Trump tweeted this morning about a Washington Post report that revealed President Obama knew about Russia trying to meddle in the 2016 election long before Wikileaks but did nothing about it, ABC again shifted the blame from Obama to attack Trump. For tweeting about this revelation, anchor George Stephanopoulos and Dowd diagnosed Trump as having an “obsession” over the Russian hacking:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Meantime, the president simply can't help himself on those tweets about Russia.
DOWD: No, he has an obsession on this and I was thinking about this. The one person that questions Donald Trump's legitimacy the most for holding his office seems to be Donald Trump. Donald Trump constantly raises questions about his own electoral victory, about whether or not Russia interfered with it and I'm reminded of a quote, to cure one obsession you usually have to adopt another obsession so Donald Trump would be much better adopting another that was more beneficial for the public.
For Dowd to claim that Trump was the one who was “obsessed” with Russian hacking is a hoot. This is the same network that has spent just about every day talking about the investigation for months on end. Not only that, but Dowd claimed that Trump “questioned” his own election win more than anyone else. Again, Dowd ignored that his own network has questioned Trump’s legitimacy repeatedly, from questions asked by George Stephanopoulos to Dowd himself.
