CNN’s Dana Bash Does Absurdly Weak Pushback To Trump Sh*tposter MISTRIAL Talking Point: ‘Those Details Have Not Been Confirmed’

Tommy ChristopherJun 9th, 2024, 11:53 am
 

CNN anchor Dana Bash made an absurdly weak correction when Trump surrogate and proud puppy-murderer Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) insisted a “mistrial” is coming because a self-described “shit poster” posted a provocative Facebook comment.

Judge Juan Merchan — who presided over the Stormy Daniels hush money trial — sent a letter to Trump attorney Todd Blanche and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Friday notifying them of a recent discovery. A Facebook user named “Michael Anderson” whose profile describes himself as “a professional shit poster” left a comment claiming inside knowledge of the verdict before it was reached.

“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted. Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!” the comment read.

Trump and his allies immediately leaped to demand a “MISTRIAL” — which is not how laws or trials work — over the obvious and self-confessed trolling comment.

Noem was a guest on Sunday morning’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union, and joined the “MISTRIAL” chorus. Bash offered a frankly stunning quasi-correction:

NOEM: What he has said is that he’s warned the American people, if we start weaponizing the judicial system like they did against him, that it could happen to any president. It could happen to any political opponent.

What he’s talking about when he’s having those discussions is that be careful what you do because that opens the door in the future to anybody doing it. And that’s what he’s trying to shut down. He wants people to trust our judicial system. He wants to make sure that we still have law and order in this country.

If you look at conservative areas of this country, places where Republicans were in control, we have law and order. We have peace and stability. You go to Democrat states and cities, that’s where you see destruction and you see judicial systems and trials and corrupt judges that prosecute their political enemies.

That’s what New York was. New York, that was definitely a rigged election — or a rigged judicial process against the president, politically motivated.

BASH: Well, he was found guilty based on a jury, 12 members of the — 12 peers, 12 peers of his.

The other thing I just want to mention — and I do want to move on — is that, right now, the Justice Department is prosecuting the president’s son, President Biden’s son, is prosecuting a House Democrat, is prosecuting a Senate Democrat. So doesn’t that fly in the face of the claim that the whole judicial system is weaponized against Republicans?

NOEM: I don’t think anybody believes the whole judicial system is. I think they see places in this country where it is.

And New York was certainly one of those. And I don’t know, Dana, if you read that letter from the judge in the New York City trial that came out that talked about the fact that some of these social media posts that came out before the decision and the verdicts even came out from that jury.

So there may be a mistrial coming here because it was handled so poorly by this judge. And that’s what I think that will be eye-opening to the American people as they really, truly will have proof then that judge was corrupt.

He never — he should have refused himself, according to the ethics and rules of New York.

BASH: Yes.

NOEM: He should never have resided over that whole process. And President Trump should have never been in that situation.

BASH: And I just want to say that those details have not been confirmed. Obviously, the trial is over. So I think you’re probably referring to an appeal.

I want to move on–

“Those details have not been confirmed?”

As the kids say, AYFKM? Is there some universe in which comments on the internet are considered live issues that just haven’t been “confirmed” yet? CNN has also been unable to confirm that Biden is actually Harambe and Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer — oh wait, I confirmed that.

Aside from the facial absurdity, the “shitposter” in question responded to the flap by posting a message reading “Take it easy… I’m a professional shitposter” and including a definition of the term: “Shitposts are generally intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the biggest reaction with the least effort.”

To her mild credit, Bash gently corrected the “mistrial” misconception — you can’t have a mistrial of a case that has been decided. To her greater credit, she has been unflinching in calling out anti-Semitism from Trump and others.

But now is no time to soft-pedal fact-checking against a man who is using attacks on the judicial system to rile up followers who we know are prone to violence. That much is “confirmed.”

Watch above via CNN’s State of the Union.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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