CNN Hosts Told They're 'Complicit' in Trump Re-Election in Live Interview
By: Gabe Whisnant (Newsweek)
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Presidential historian Allan Lichtman took aim at CNN's News Central hosts Monday morning for being "complicit" in Donald Trump's political rise amid the presumptive Republican nominee's bid for a second term.
Lichtman, appearing with hosts John Berman and Sara Sidner, shifted gears during his comments about recent polls between Trump and Democratic incumbent Joe Biden.
He believes Trump's remarks during last week's debate should have grabbed more headlines than Biden's much-discussed struggles.
"I love you guys in the media, but I have to say, you are complicit in Donald Trump lying and conning his way to the presidency. All of the attention has been on Biden's faltering debate, but Donald Trump's debate was vastly worse," Lichtman said. "It was based entirely on lies. More than 30 significant lies.
"He threatened our democracy by saying he wouldn't accept the results of a fair election. That he would seek retribution. Why wasn't that the headlines? Why wasn't that the greatest concern from the debate, rather than all of the focus on Joe Biden."
In his rebuke of the media's coverage of Trump, he continued:
"There's an old saying, it's not just the evil people who wreak havoc on the world, it's the good people who don't do enough to stop them. And the media right now is complicit in Donald Trump gaslighting his way to the presidency and threatening our democracy," Lichtman added.
Lichtman co-created a system called "The Keys to the White House" in 1981 alongside Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok. The only time it failed was in 2000 when the academics had falsely predicted Al Gore would become president.
The system was adapted from an earthquake prediction model and contains a list of 13 true or false statements about an election, including midterm gains, if there is sustained social unrest, existence of a major scandal, economic conditions and more. A loss is typically predicted if six of the 13 keys are against the incumbent.
In 2016, it accurately predicted Trump's win. In 2020, it accurately forecast Trump's loss.
Lichtman believes Biden should remain on the ticket despite continued calls for him to drop out after last week's debate performance. He concludes that Biden leaving the race would ultimately hinder Democrats' chances of keeping the White House since it would remove two of the keys that are currently in their favor — that there is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination and that the incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
The presidential historian also downplays Biden's recent dips in polling, both among Democratic voters and the overall electorate.
"Polling plays too much of a role in our decision-making. Polls are predictors, not for decision-making," Lichtman said.
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Let me guess, this is one of those unbiased presidential historians that rate presidents. the ones that the left like to quote so much.
Funny how Democrats/leftist can ignore every one of Joe's lies during the debate.
If Joe made an answer that anyone could understand- it was a lie.
Trump's debate strategy and performance were based on lies. Very few in the media emphasized this.
Can you substantiate any of those alleged 30 "lies"? Biden and the left have been lying to the American people for close to 4 years now, but we never hear about that. They were saying he is doing a good job and and fit as a fiddle, but we know that's a lie. The voters don't really care about politician's lying since all of them do it,
get lost
Can't post this IMPORTANT video yet (not on Youtube that I can find), but y'all need to hear Daniel Dale explain Biden's 9 lies and Donald's 35 lies.
(And if/when you do listen to the video, note that Daniel does not count the lie Donald uttered on stage that he did not have sex with Ms. Stormy Daniels.)
It’s Biden’s job to point out lies. He’s the debater. It’s not the moderators job to debate trump, and no one ever thought it was before democrats started whining about how badly Biden debates,[✘]
Trump is EASILY the most unfit for office person to ever seek the presidency. If its not the medias "job" to point that out why even have a media.
JR, did you happen to see the debate last Thursday, you may want to rethink your comment!
But there wasn't an incumbent for the 2000 election or the 2016 election. I guess the reporters missed something in their rush to the spin fest.
CNN has been doing the dems bidding for so long it is not a surprising that when the don't they get turned on.
I love that you posted this.
I watched this interview this AM. I am looking for the video (on CNN) and to my surprise and shock. . .CNN has edited out the "CNN is complicit" statement made by the historian.
Bad form. CNN. BTW, it explains why at the end of the interview John Berman (who is usually so good with his words) did not even open his mouth to wish the guest a goodbye. Berman just stood there. That is screwed up. A network that talks about everybody else, but don't wish to have its own back-side critiqued!
And that's the way it is: July 1st, 2024.....
The media is more focused on the optics of the presidential debate rather than the substance. All DJT did was stand there and make false allegations. Bluster fuck.
With all the snow flying around, Joseph biden still answered most questions truthfully, while DJT refused to answer questions without caveat. Donald Trump lost the debate on substance, but don't let that stop your party.
live until you cannot anymore
Damn our conservative media.