Talking heads on CNN and MSNBC are convinced President Trump has some shadowy ulterior motive for assuming federal control of policing in Washington, D.C. In addition to citing cooked crime statistics to slam President Trump’s federalization of policing in D.C., panelists on the liberal cable networks have begun offering up wild theories for what Trump’s “real” goal was:
One popular theory pushed by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, among others, was that the President hoped to “distract” Americans and the media from Jeffrey Epstein. As CNN media critic Brian Stelter explained on Tuesday:
There were lots of people yesterday saying, “Hey, is this a distraction? Is Trump trying to distract from the Epstein scandal?” Well, here’s the more interesting — here’s the better question: is it working or not? And I’m here to tell you, yes, it is working. If this was working, yes, it is succeeding.
Another theory was that Trump had been motivated primarily by racism. Shortly after the President’s announcement on August 11, CNN national politics correspondent Eva McKend remarked: “He has always felt that American cities, especially this with large black populations, like Washington, D.C., are crime-ridden.”
And still others, such as MSNBC host Symone Sanders and MSNBC contributor Barbara McQuade, surmised on Morning Joe that Trump’s declaration was a part of a larger “power grab.”
It seems that no matter what President Trump’s administration does, liberal journalists will interpret it as cynically as possible. That’s clearly the what happened in this instance, as evidenced by the loony speculation that ensued.
