CNN’s Jake Tapper has once again excelled at what he does best: making a total ass out of himself.
The Russian conspiracy hysteria is back with a vengeance as Democrats have control of the House and prepare to launch a boatload of show trial investigations into the nonsense that President Trump is a Kremlin sleeper agent.
Following a New York Times story that Trump’s enemies in the politicized FBI opened an investigation into him after he fired conniving partisan hack and “sleazeball” James Comey, the media had the talking points ready for the Sunday morning shows that the POTUS was working for Putin and hammered them for all they were worth.
Despite the underlying and deliberately ignored narrative that the FBI sought to use innuendo, conjecture and outright falsehoods to take out the duly elected president with whom they had political differences – something that one would expect in an authoritarian police state – the push was mounted to bully and browbeat Republican members of Congress into going on record on the great Trump-Russia hoax.
Leading the pack was CNN and fake news peddler Jake Tapper who during the network’s “State Of The Union” tried to bait Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc) into putting his stamp of approval on the dubious reportage of the NYT by condemning Trump on Russia as well as a Washington Post bombshell that there was something nefarious about the president’s meeting with Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit.
Johnson who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs refused to be trapped by Tapper and repeatedly rebutted the “innuendo” that continues to be foisted off on the public as actual evidence by the mouthpieces of the Deep State at CNN.
Via The Daily Caller, “Tapper Presses Sen. Johnson To Condemn Trump On Russia – He Isn’t Biting”:
Tapper led the segment with questions pursuant to reports from the New York Times and The Washington Post alleging that the FBI had investigated whether the president had worked on behalf of Russia — taking specific interest in reports that Trump had taken his interpreter’s notes following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (RELATED: Sarah Sanders Responds To New York Times Report)
“Do you think — why do you think President Trump is trying to keep these meetings off the books?” Tapper asked.
Johnson replied, “I don’t want to speculate beyond the fact that I know he was burned by leaks in other areas. He was frustrated by it. That may be one explanation but otherwise, I can’t really comment further.”
Tapper pressed again: “Are you okay with the fact that the Kremlin knows more about these meetings than U.S. intelligence and the national security committee?”
But Johnson didn’t budge, saying that he intended to judge the president “on his actions.”
In the end I’m going to judge this president based on his actions. We have increased sanctions. Why did — we have begun providing lethal defensive weaponry to Ukrainians to defend their integrity. The jury will be out on other actions this president will or will not take. In the end you just have to basically judge him on his actions.
We defeated, basically, ISIS and have taken away that caliphate. We were concerned about a precipitous pullout. That’s going to be conditions-based. We can continue to attack ISIS from positions in Iraq. I will wait to see but I’ve seen strong actions by this administration on the part of Russia.
Tapper pressed once more, referencing an earlier segment with Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.
You just heard your colleague senator mark Warner talking about the FBI counterintelligence investigation into whether President Trump worked on behalf of Russia against the interests of the United States. Warner said the president at one point was almost parroting Putin’s policies. Do you have any concerns President Trump may have unwittingly been doing things that would help Russia and hurt the United States?
But Johnson fired right back, accusing Sen. Warner of dealing in innuendo rather than facts. “Yeah, I heard an awful lot of innuendo from Senator Warner, who’s on the intelligence committee and has a lot more knowledge about this than I do. And that’s part of my frustration.”
And innuendo is exactly what this all is but the longer it continues and the more suspicion that the partisan hacks can gin up, the more probable that it becomes that Hillary Clinton could get into the race for 2020 based on the narrative that Trump’s election was invalid because he was some sort of Manchurian candidate.
