White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday found himself in a heated exchange with CNN’s Jake Tapper as the anchor took him to task on President Trump’s purposeful downplaying of the COVID-19 pandemic in its early stages, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book.
When pressed on why Trump misled the public on COVID-19 — citing his remarks to Woodward in a Feb. 7 interview when the President privately expressed fear over COVID-19 after being warned by national security officials in late January that it would be the worst pandemic in a century, which contrasted his public downplaying of the threat in the following weeks — Navarro brought up Trump’s so-called travel ban on China imposed at the end of January and plans that the White House made in early February in preparation for COVID-19.
After calling Navarro out for dodging his question, Tapper grilled him on the stark contrast between Trump’s public comments versus his remarks those to Woodward on COVID-19.
“Why wasn’t the president straightforward with the American people?” Tapper asked.
Navarro insisted that Trump was “straightforward” before accusing Tapper of “cherry-picking.”
Tapper continued pressing Navarro to answer his question as he denied that he was “cherry-picking.”
After Navarro defended Trump’s comments again and claimed that “CNN is not honest with the American people,” Tapper abruptly ended the interview by talking over Navarro — who insisted that he “answered the question” — and reminding the American public of the country’s dire statistics on COVID-19.
“I would just like to remind the American people that are watching that the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, and the United States has more than 20% of the world’s coronavirus deaths,” Tapper said. “That is a fact. It does not matter how many times he insults CNN.”
Watch Navarro’s remarks below:
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro accuses CNN's Jake Tapper of "cherry-picking" Trump's COVID response pic.twitter.com/n9Ue425gXN
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 13, 2020
I can’t decide whether, when translating to American, “Navarro” should be translated as “HImmler” or “Goebbels”.
Good for Tapper and CNN!
Navarro’s bootlicking dishonesty requires calling out. It’s the only way to call out the bullshit, corruption, and criminality of Trump and his MAGATS!
In my fantasy world, from this point onward, I would see the mainstream media, when discussing anything Trump related, simply say “we would like to be able to bring someone from this administration that could give an honest argument in favor of his policies…but as a news organization, we can’t. They are only interested in lying and changing the subject and filling our viewers with bullshit. We can no longer tolerate this. The moment the Trump administration has serious, fact based individuals willing to argue his policies, we will have them on. Until then, they will no longer be given a platform here.
“Thank you.”
Navarro constantly lies is a total idiot and nothing but a worthless tool for Spanky. For the life of me I have no idea why anyone in the media would bother to have him on their show.
Navarro is accusing someone else of cherry-picking???
Boy, that’s really rich…
Dickhead, advisor to Dickhead.