‘Death Watch’: CNN Media Panel Likens Trump Health to Stalin’s Demise

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 4, 2020
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With CNN’s glee at seeing President Trump hospitalized with COVID-19 and other media outlets whining about him getting the “best medical care possible,” it’s hard on to imagine which outcome they would relish. Adding to that notion on Sunday, the media panel for CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” almost said the quiet part out loud when New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen likened the mixed messages to Trump’s health to the misinformation put out during the “death watch” of Soviet monster Joseph Stalin.

“Masha, what do you see happening in America right now with a country unable to know what to believe about the President's health,” host and media janitor Brian Stelter asked her at the top of the show.

Gessen wasted no time in making comparing Trump’s health condition to Stalin’s death. “Well, you know, Brian, there have been a lot of comparisons to the Soviet Union in the last couple of days. I think they are not unwarranted. The particular period I am thinking about is something I have written about a lot, which were the days of Stalin's deathwatch,” she proclaimed.

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