CNN Avoids Biden Pledge to Gut Oil Industry, Trump ‘Theoretically’ Normal

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 23, 2020
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The final presidential debate, Thursday, featured a more strategic and measured President Trump who allowed Democratic nominee Joe Biden to speak more freely and thus tie himself in knots with his own policy proposals, including admitting to wanting to gut the oil and natural gas industry in this country. The liberal media have spent weeks denying this fact, so it was no surprise that CNN’s so-called “journalists” kept far away from it as they attacked the President.

Kicking off the hot takes, consistently shoddy Jake Tapper proclaimed that Trump “theoretically” acted like a normal human. “It was definitely a more normal debate. President Trump behaved more like a regular person might, theoretically,” he told Wolf Blitzer.

Adding: “I think it's fair to say that Trump supporters and Republican officeholders can relax for the night. They can exhale. He didn't set himself on fire tonight like he did at the first debate.”

After accusing Trump of lying “like Pinocchio,” Tapper admitted that Trump got in some “clean hits” on Biden. But there was no mention of Trump getting Biden to admit he would “transition from the oil industry, yeah.

Instead, Tapper complained about Trump using “Fox lingo that most voters have no idea what he’s talking about” (a tacit admission that CNN hides critical news from their viewers). And showing his contempt for Trump supporters, Tapper declared Trump was feeding them “raw meat” like they were a pack of rabid animals.

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