CBS’s Garrett Preemptively Blames Trump and GOP ‘Hardliners’ for Shutdown

[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS This Morning journalist Major Garrett on Tuesday jumped to blame Donald Trump and Republican “hardliners” for a potential government shutdown. Garrett made little effort to find culpability for the liberal Democrats in the Senate who are demanding a clean DACA bill in return for keeping the government open. He began by whining, “It was just a week ago, cabinet room, President Trump, bunch of lawmakers. Nearly an hour of televised immigration give and take where the President said he would sign anything because he could, quote, ‘take the heat.’” Getting in front of a possibly looming shutdown, Garrett identified the guilty parties: “Then came the backlash. Hardliners accused Mr. Trump of weakness and toying with amnesty by providing protection from deportation for immigrants brought to the country illegally by their parents.”