CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper got into a heated exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Sunday when the lawmaker repeatedly defended President Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine.
During a discussion on Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, Jordan kept deflecting by bringing up the false claim that Biden had gotten a Ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating a company with ties to his son for corruption.
When Tapper pointed out that the prosecutor was fired precisely because he wasn’t investigating corruption, Jordan complained about the “gymnastics you guys will go through” to defend Biden.
“Sir, it’s not gymnastics, it’s facts,” an exasperated Tapper responded.
“And I would think somebody who’s been accused of things in the last year and two would be more sensitive about throwing out wild allegations against people,” he added, referring to allegations that Jordan had ignored the sexual abuse of Ohio State wrestlers by the team’s doctor when Jordan served as assistant coach.
The interview only went downhill from there as Jordan doubled down on his claims about Biden and his son, then started sounding off about former FBI officials James Comey and Peter Strzok’s alleged conspiracy against the Trump campaign.
After about two minutes of crosstalk, the CNN reporter had had enough.
“I understand you want to change the subject, but the President was pushing the president of Ukraine to investigate a political rival,” Tapper retorted. “I cannot believe that that is okay with you. I can’t believe it’s okay with you.”
Watch the exchange below:
Tapper snaps at Rep. Jordan for pushing false claim about Biden and Ukraine: "I would think somebody who's been accused of things in the last year and two would be more sensitive about throwing out wild allegations against people." pic.twitter.com/92mfTTqBjI
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 29, 2019
The Holocaust did not happen with just Hitler’s loathsome self…he had the Nazi Party! Just as the Extortion-In-Chief has the RepubliCONS that are dead-beat legislators, Faux News and Murderous Putin! All told, Trump’s THUG’s-R-Us are going to deny, distract, deflect that the Extortion-In-Chief is a criminal even if Trump has admitted his extortion deed!
How to shame the shameless, lawless, hypocrites and UNPATRIOTIC RepubliCONS?
Please tell me it aint so.
Sorry Jake, that doesn’t cut it.
Having awakened from the delirious optimism brought on by events of the past week and recovered from the concomitant crippling naïveté, I can see now, in the dull grey light of Sunday, that the dark side is going to win. It’s inevitable.
Because the question is not, for example, what does Putin or Trump or whoever have on Lindsey Graham that they can make him behave like such an idiot. The question is rather, what does Graham understand that we do not? What do all the dead-enders defending the indefensible know?
The answer is: “Democrats’ shit is weak; ours is strong like a bull’s.”
This isn’t the science channel. It’s professional wrestling. Superior showmanship worked with Mueller report, it worked with Kavenaugh and it’s going to work again with Ukrainium. Graham was overheard on a flight to Washington telling Jared on the phone "This is Kavanaugh on steroids! This is hearsay – and this person has bias.” On “Face the Nation” today I thought Graham looked and sounded like a gibbering idiot. But I’m not a wrestling fan so what do I know. What really happened is that while Pelosi and Schiff muttered about facts Graham and Giuliani bounced off the ropes and blew them away with a perfectly executed Corkscrew Shooting Star Press!!! Trump, wearing the belt, jumps in now and finishes it with an awesome Iranian Nuke Kick.
I tend to be somewhat bipolor. Would somebody please talk me down (no up) from this nightmare?
“We appreciate your appearance. Thanks so much for being here. PLEASE NEVER EXPECT TO COME ON AGAIN.”
Ok, so we know this fool was making the rounds this morning.
Where were Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi and the host of prosecutors? Did the morning shows only feel we needed to hear only defense of Trump?
BTW, dear hubby’s close friend at work wants to travel upstate to our very right wing friends and ask them all about this. It would be a fun confrontation, but I won’t be around for it.
The Republicans use hype, everything is the worst that ever happened in our history. Couple that with "we alone can protect the family values, the country from terrorism by saying “Radical Islamic Terrorist”, and don’t worry little lady “trickle down economics works and will save you”, and all anyone has to do is vote for Republicans up and down the ballot.
Today’s Democratic candidates have moved from protector of unions (though still imporatant), and all the FDR and Johnson programs we’ve enjoyed for 50 years.
All you have to remember is that out the field of 17(?) Republican candidates in 2015-16 they couldn’t deal with Trump using their playbook against them. They treated him as someone who knew what he was doing, despite is past history.