National “Public” Radio has existed for more than 50 years as a publicity organ for the Democrats, and for the last ten or eleven, it’s certainly been Red Hot Anti-Trump Radio. MS NOW pundit Andrew Weissman – Robert Mueller’s deputy in the Russian collusion probe – was granted an hour of book publicity on the talk show Fresh Air on May 20.
We’ve established that Fresh Air pretty much never grants any national publicity to conservative journalists or authors, but loves promoting Trump-trashing products. You could hear this from the get-go with NPR host Terry Gross:
TERRY GROSS: Why can't you sue a president or a presidential candidate who knowingly lies to the public? After all, corporate executives can be sued for lying to shareholders. This question about our inability to legally hold politicians accountable for their speech, the threats that poses to our democracy and what we can learn from how other countries deal with these lies are the subjects of my guest Andrew Weissmann's new book Liar's Kingdom: How To Stop Trump's Deceit And Save America.
During Trump's first term, The Washington Post tabulated over 30,000 false or misleading Trump public statements. Andrew Weissmann was a lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Russians colluded with candidate Donald Trump and his campaign.
Gross wasn't going to mention that Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler abruptly stopped counting allegedly false statements by presidents when Joe Biden came in. Democrats apparently never lie, and the prospect of suing a sitting president for lying only applies to Republicans in the leftist bubble of NPR.
This was the only mention of Russia. There were no questions about Weissman failing to get Trump, or Robert Mueller's Bidenesque feebleness when he testified after the Mueller Report came out. Fresh Air also promoted Weissman's book about the Mueller probe back in 2020, and that transcript reads like Weissman wrote all the questions himself.
No, this was just organized publicity. Here's where Gross really let her hatred flow late in the hour:
GROSS: What are your concerns about if there's an authoritarian president and if Congress is going with an authoritarian president's wishes, and a lot of the courts, as well as a majority of the Supreme Court, seem to often take a cue from the authoritarian president or at least seem to agree with the authoritarian president -- how the laws you suggested could still be abused?
WEISSMANN: There is the potential for abuse. And there's no doubt that if there is some weapon lying about, like a Chekhov gun, that Donald Trump or people like him will be tempted to use it. We are witnessing, in my view, a series of retributive indictments and the weaponization of the Department of Justice in the grossest way. And just to be clear, Terry, as you noted, I've worked in the Department of Justice for 21 years with Republican and Democratic administrations, and I've never seen that in any of those administrations. There just wasn't that -- directives coming from the White House to the Department of Justice.
Oh, sure. They never weaponized or abused the DOJ under Clinton, or Obama, and certainly not the Biden DOJ going after Trump. This is the easiest way to establish a network is a Democrat Party echo. Gross's question neatly matched the Weissman book blurb by PBS omnipresence Ken Burns, another Democrat warrior:
"Though they thought constantly of posterity, our founders could not have imagined the assault on our founding principles that we find ourselves mired in today—the legislative and judicial branches subservient to an aggressively authoritarian executive. Fortunately, we have Andrew Weissmann to illuminate these dark times and to offer a roadmap back to sanity, a reinvestment in our age-old principles and a return to virtue." ―Ken Burns, filmmaker
