{"id":20167,"date":"2024-06-25T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/trump-camp-hits-back-after-cnn-host-cuts-feed-slams-debate-moderators-history-of-anti-trump-lies\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:48:15","slug":"trump-camp-hits-back-after-cnn-host-cuts-feed-slams-debate-moderators-history-of-anti-trump-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/trump-camp-hits-back-after-cnn-host-cuts-feed-slams-debate-moderators-history-of-anti-trump-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump camp hits back after CNN host cuts feed, slams debate moderator\u2019s \u2018history of anti-Trump lies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN has already set the stage for an unfair debate between former President Trump and President Biden by selecting a debate moderator with a \u2018history of anti-Trump lies\u2019 and abruptly ending an interview with the campaign\u2019s spokeswoman on Monday morning, according to the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

\u2018CNN cutting off my microphone for bringing up a debate moderator\u2019s history of anti-Trump lies just proves our point that President Trump will not be treated fairly in Thursday\u2019s debate. Yet President Trump is still willing to go into this 3-1 fight to bring his winning message to the American people, and he will win,\u2019 Trump national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital on Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leavitt was abruptly cut off during an interview with CNN host Kasie Hunt on Monday morning, after criticizing CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, who will moderate Thursday\u2019s debate between Trump and Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018That\u2019s why President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network, on CNN, with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years. And their biased coverage of him,\u2019 Leavitt said on CNN, previewing the debate.<\/p>\n

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\u2018So I\u2018ll just say my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have acquitted themselves as professionals as they have covered campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I\u2018ll also say that if you talk to analysts of previous debates, that if you\u2019re attacking the moderators, you\u2019re usually losing,\u2019 Hunt responded.<\/p>\n

As Hunt tried to redirect the interview back to previewing the debate, Leavitt said it would take just a few minutes to pull up examples of Tapper\u2019s anti-Trump rhetoric across the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Ma\u2019am, I\u2019m going to stop this interview if you\u2019re going to continue to attack my colleagues,\u2019 Hunt said, before Leavitt continued that she was \u2018stating facts\u2019 about what CNN hosts have previously said about Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m sorry, guys, we\u2019re going to come back out to the panel,\u2019 Hunt said. \u2018Karoline, thank you very much for your time. You are welcome to come back at any point. She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump, and Donald Trump will have equal time to Joe Biden when they both join us later this week in Atlanta for this debate.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hunt followed up on X Monday morning that when guests join her show, they must \u2018respect my colleagues.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018\u200b\u200bYou come on my show, you respect my colleagues. Period. I don\u2019t care what side of the aisle you stand on, as my track record clearly shows,\u2019 Hunt posted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A CNN spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Monday morning that Tapper and Bash are \u2018well respected veteran journalists who have covered politics for more than five decades combined.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018They have extensive experience moderating major political debates, including CNN\u2019s Republican Presidential Primary Debate this cycle. There are no two people better equipped to co-moderate a substantial and fact-based discussion and we look forward to the debate on June 27 in Atlanta,\u2019 the spokesperson continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump had already predicted that the upcoming debate on CNN had a 90% chance of being unfair toward him, highlighting there was still a \u2018good 10% chance\u2019 moderators Tapper and Bash would be fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Fake [Jake] Tapper and lots of other people that were involved on CNN, [the Biden campaign] wanted to be seated, which I didn\u2019t like. I said we should stand and I think we won that point,\u2019 Trump said on\u00a0Logan Paul\u2019s \u2018IMPAULSIVE\u2019 podcast earlier this month. \u2018But I would have agreed to whatever I had agreed to because they didn\u2019t want to do it. They thought that I wouldn\u2019t do it because it\u2019s CNN, but I\u2019ve done plenty of CNN. I did a town hall not so long ago with CNN that worked out well. But I think they\u2019ll be fair. I think they\u2019re gonna try to be fair. As fair as they can be.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018But I think that it\u2019s important for there to be a debate. So [the Biden campaign] said, \u2018You want to debate?\u2019 \u2018Yep, I\u2019ll accept. You don\u2019t even have to tell me.\u2019 Then they said CNN, they said the different people that are involved, but let\u2019s see what happens. I used to get along with [debate moderator] Jake Tapper. We\u2019ll see what happens, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Whatever it is, it is,\u2019 Trump continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018They might be [fair],\u2019 Trump added. \u2018I\u2019d say a good 10% chance.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tapper has a long history of espousing anti-Trump rhetoric, including trying to link Trump to Adolf Hitler, as Leavitt mentioned in her brief remarks on CNN Monday. In December, Tapper tied Trump to Hitler following the 45th president\u2019s remark that illegal immigrants were \u2018poisoning the blood of our country.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018With four weeks until Ohioans cast the nation\u2019s first votes in the 2024 presidential race, the dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolf Hitler is once again alive and well on the national political stage. This time, of course, in the United States. This time, given life by former president and current Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, whose thoughts on immigrants were made shockingly crystal clear over the weekend,\u2019 Tapper said before playing the clip of Trump\u2019s remarks. \u2018If you were to open up a copy of Hitler\u2019s \u2018Mein Kampf,\u2019 you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning. The Jew, Hitler wrote, quote, \u2018poisons the blood of others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 2020, Tapper also eulogized Trump\u2019s loss to Biden, declaring that \u2018for tens of millions of our fellow Americans: their long national nightmare is over.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s been a time of extreme divisions, many of the divisions caused and exacerbated by President Trump himself,\u2019 Tapper said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s been a time of several significant and utterly avoidable failures, most tragically, of course, the unwillingness to respect facts and science and do everything that could be done to save lives during a pandemic. It has been a time where truth and fact were treated with disdain,\u2019 he continued. \u2018It was a time of cruelty where official inhumanities such as child separation became the official shameful policy of the United States. But now the Trump presidency is coming to an end.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tapper also shamed Trump after his COVID diagnosis in 2020, arguing it was \u2018was a demonstration of a wanton disregard for human life\u2019 and that Trump became a \u2018symbol of his own failures.\u2019 At the start of the pandemic, Tapper claimed Trump \u2018continues to lie to the American people\u2019 about COVID testing.<\/p>\n

Trump held a rally in Philadelphia over the weekend on Temple University\u2019s campus, and told Fox News before it that holding campaign events is \u2018really the best strategy\u2019 to prepare for Thursday\u2019s debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We have all these people out here and they are screaming questions. I look forward to the debate,\u2019 Trump said.<\/p>\n

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He added that he\u2019s confident ahead of the debate, while noting he\u2019s not worried about Biden\u2019s preparations for Thursday. Biden traveled to Camp David last Thursday, where he is anticipated to remain until the debate, preparing with senior officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Well, I think if he prepares, he\u2019ll be fine. Then he will forget it within about an hour after preparing. So, we\u2019ll see what happens. We\u2019ll see what happens,\u2019 Trump said.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Hanna Panreck and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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