Opinion: The toughest job in journalism is defending President Trump on CNN
on-air to former Republican member of the House of Representative Sean Duffy on October 20, as the congressman commenced his duties as one of the network’s paid contributors expected to defend President Donald Trump. Tapper’s welcome was heartfelt. But had Tapper placed honesty in front of manners, he would have warned Duffy that he just had volunteered for a mission—defending Trumpism on CNN—that’s more perilous than taking the beach at Normandy.
Trump’s spurious position that Ukrainians have possession of the Democratic National Committee’s server, which is “at the heart of the Russia investigation.”until Tuesday when he went on CNN to question the patriotism of Ukrainian-born Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the White House insider who had just wounded Trump with testimony in the House’s impeachment inquiry.
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