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After starting Sunday’s Reliable Sources by shredding ABC and Brian Ross for their disastrous reporting regarding Michael Flynn’s plea deal, host Brian Stelter retreated to more familiar grounds: Claiming President Trump was insane and was a threat to everyone. His inspiration for the segment was the recent diatribes published in the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, and on MSNBC, places known for their even keel attitudes towards the President (please note the sarcasm).
“Jeff, let's have what I always say is this uncomfortable conversation. I think it is deeply uncomfortable to talk about this. But I think we have to,” Stelter proclaimed to veteran journalist Jeff Greenfield. “Look at the New York Daily News this morning. A column calling the President a madman. Saying that he is truly unhinged.”
Seemingly unaware of the ridiculousness of his sources, Stelter recalled how “I've been noticing a new theme I the coverage of the President this week, among Trump skeptics in the press, liberal columnists, places like that.” He then read from a column written by known Trump critic Eugene Robinson and Published in The Washington Post:
Let’s show, for example, Eugene Robinson's column in The Washington Post. People are saying we have to talk about his health now before it's too late. Eugene Robinson saying: “How long are we going to pretend that President Trump is fully rational? How long are we going to ignore the signs he's dangerously out of control?”
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