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Brian Stelter Hates Trump So Much He Claims He Needs a 'Translator'
July 6th, 2020 3:18 PM
Sunday’s edition of Reliable Sources featured an entire segment devoted to smearing President Trump and Fox News viewers as “conspiracy theorists” living in an alternate reality. The guest for the segment, CNN presidential historian David Brinkley, described Trump as “the InfoWars President” and compared him to the late Senator Joe McCarthy.
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CNN Mocks 'Abomination' Trump, Praises Internment Camp-Creator FDR
June 26th, 2020 3:00 PM
On Thursday morning’s CNN Newsroom, hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto brought on presidential historian Douglas Brinkley to spout Democratic propaganda about President Trump in an effort to boost Joe Biden. Brinkley accused Trump of lacking “empathy,” despite Democratic failures in addressing COVID-19 and incitement of violence. Even more outrageously, Brinkley called Trump “an…
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CNN's Brinkley Likens Trump to American Nazi Party Founder
June 13th, 2020 2:48 PM
On Friday's CNN Tonight, Don Lemon presided over a panel whose members bashed President Donald Trump over his handling of the George Floyd-inspired protests. After former CBS News anchor Dan Rather accused several Republican presidents of "playing the race card," CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley likened President Trump to the founder of the American Nazi Party, George…
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Brian Williams: Trump Lacks 'Empathy' For COVID Victims
April 25th, 2020 2:29 PM
As COVID-19 deaths continue to rise, MSNBC's Brian Williams and historian Douglas Brinkley wondered on Friday night's The 11th Hour why President Trump doesn't seem to care.
NYTimes Front Page: Trump ‘Rewriting History’ to Save His Reelection
March 25th, 2020 8:30 AM
The New York Times is consumed with using the coronavirus crisis against President Trump, with Monday’s front-page “news analysis” mocking the very idea of presidential leadership during the pandemic in “Trump Shifts Image: Leader For ‘Wartime.’” Times reporters sneered: "This gambit, however, requires a rewriting of history -- Mr. Trump’s muted approach to the virus early on -- and it’s far from…
Column: Impeachment Dies in Desperation
February 5th, 2020 8:19 AM
As the Trump impeachment effort inevitably burns out on the ash heap of history, Democrats are left to argue that if this president is left unchecked, if he’s not removed from office, he’ll “do it again.” He’ll pressure foreign governments to investigate the business dealings of the Bidens, which is a “threat to national security." But a Democratic House majority has aggressively checked him with…
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Brinkley: ‘Democracy Is Broken’ If Dems Don’t Get Their Way in Trial
January 16th, 2020 6:21 PM
According to CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, we can kiss American democracy goodbye if Senate Democrats don’t get their way with the Trump impeachment trial. That was the message he delivered Thursday afternoon when to eager co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, stating that presidents will now act as “an outlaw” with “imperial precedent” and “democracy” will be “broken” if Senate…
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Tapper, Brinkley Compare Trump to Huey Long, George Wallace
July 19th, 2019 3:07 PM
CNN host Jake Tapper devoted a large amount of Thursday’s edition of The Lead to covering the chants of “send her back” that erupted during President Trump’s rally in North Carolina the night before when he brought up Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia who is now an American citizen. Tapper and his guests used the chants as an excuse to paint President Trump as a racist and compare…
New York Times: Trump 'Darth Vader-like Figure' on Environment
July 9th, 2019 2:28 PM
New York Times political reporter Katie Rogers teamed with environmental reporter Coral Davenport for Trump mockery on Tuesday’s front page: “In Speech, Trump Portrays U.S. As a Leader on the Environment.” That benign headline hid deep bias. The current online headline reflected the story’s actual tone by quoting a Trump critic: “Trump Saw Opportunity in Speech on Environment. Critics Saw a ‘“…
BEHOLD the Worst Quotes from Jim Acosta’s Narcissistic Book of Hogwash
June 14th, 2019 2:16 PM
CNN chief White House correspondent and cartoonishly self-centered Jim Acosta released on Tuesday his 353-page work of narcissism, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. And, folks, it’s everything you thought it would be and then some. CNN chief White House correspondent and cartoonishly self-centered Jim Acosta released on Tuesday his 354-page work of narcissism…
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Douglas Brinkley Fawns Over 'Master' and 'Historic Speaker' Pelosi
May 23rd, 2019 10:57 PM
The media has been heavily covering the recent jabs that President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been lobbing at each other. Brinkley, rather than remaining objective, couldn’t help but drooling over Pelosi.
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CNN: Only 2020 ‘Guardrail’ Can Save us From ‘Constitutional Crisis'
May 10th, 2019 5:32 PM
Appearing on CNN’s New Day Thursday, CNN Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley echoed Jerry Nadler’s rhetoric, declaring that “we’re hovering on a Constitutional crisis” as a result of the standoff between House Democrats and Attorney General Bill Barr. Brinkley went so far as to argue that the election of President Trump was a “Constitutional crisis” in and of itself while both Berman and…
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Brinkley: Justice Roberts's 'Great Intellect' May Move Him Left
October 7th, 2018 6:25 PM
Appearing on Saturday's CNN Newsroom to discuss Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley predicted that he will have a "stain" that he will "carry for the rest of his life," and suggested that conservative Chief Justice John Roberts may move further to the left because he has "great intellect," as if intelligence implies being more…
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Brinkley Worries Rosenstein Story Validates Trump Deep State Narrative
September 21st, 2018 6:16 PM
The shocking revelation in the September 21 New York Times that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump as well as invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office is stunning. It is also disturbing because this just feeds into Trump's "narrative" about the "Deep State" working to undermine him.
The latter is a great concern of CNN's…
