Just hours after former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said, under intense pressure from Democratic committee attorney Barry Berke, that he is under “no obligation to have a candid conversation with the media,” CNN booked him on the morning show.
According to Yahoo News, Berke extracted the statement from a frustrated Lewandowski Tuesday evening after playing him a series of clips from interviews he’d done during which he provably lied.
CNN did not immediately respond to request for an explanation as to the booking decision.
Berke succeeded at the end of the hearing where congressional Democrats had failed, hammering away at his points and successfully circumnavigating Lewandowski’s gleeful (and specious) insistence on executive privilege. At one point, Berke punctured holes in Lewandowski’s armor by pointing out that he had published conversations with senior White House officials in his book “Let Trump Be Trump.”
Lewandowski continued his performance during his early Wednesday CNN appearance, insisting that he was muzzled by executive privilege, then dodging questions about why that would apply to someone who never worked in the White House.
He also insisted that the Mueller report concluded that there was “no obstruction, no collusion” despite the fact that both the report does not exonerate President Donald Trump of obstruction and Lewandowski has now said many times that he hasn’t read even read it.
Host Alisyn Camerota tried to force Lewandowski to explain why he didn’t deliver Trump’s message about limiting the scope of the Russia investigation to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but he avoided it by crowing about his devotion to his children and taking them on vacation.
He finally wouldn’t address his own comments about the lack of obligation he feels to tell the truth to the media, turning the conversation to Andrew McCabe and shouting over Camerota when she tried to repeat her question.
The interview devolved as Lewandowski quibbled with every question Camerota asked, constantly yelling her name and accusing her of being “disingenuous” and her network of being part of the “fake news” machinery.
Lewandowski also appeared on Fox News Tuesday night, though that network is nearly always a safe haven for those looking to give Trump-pleasing performances, no matter the veracity of the content.
The guy should be blacklisted from all media outlets. Why give him a platform to lie and insult them to their faces? His admission that he lies to them when on should be brought up every time his upcoming paid campaign ads hit the air.
This is another example of why I quit watching CNN years ago. Not journalism, but . . . .I don’t have a word for it.
Lewandowski’s claims that he has “no obligation to be honest” will make an outstanding campaign bumper sticker for Senatorial campaign. What a total waste of carbon he is.
We’ve spent enough energy on Lewandowski. Let him rot. His 15 minutes of fame are over.
Of course they booked him. Nonsensical nothing theater is the hallmark of these networks. And why not give this guy who acts like every dad thrown out of a little league game park a crate to stand on so he can impress the 37% of New Hampshire voters who hear this sort of dog whistle quite clearly and say, I’d like this fellow to represent me in the United States Senate. Of course CNN, MSNBC and Fox and others will put him on. It helps them sell Dodge trucks, Sunsetter awnings and boxes people can poop in and send in the mail to find out if they’ve got the colon cancer. Any sane individual would look away from any of these networks should they appear in their line of vision. But sane is in short supply.
Any news station that puts him on air for any length of time is admitting that they are run by the entertainment division. Straight up. What they might gain in sheer “eyeballs” they lose in every bit of respect. You might as well be watching Dancing with the Stars.