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Remember back to 2014 when CNN became a laughing stock when they suggested aliens might have abducted Malaysia Flight 370? Well, it took over three years of a Trump presidency but they finally reached a similar milestone again. This time, however, they did it when CNN media “journalist” and host of so-called “Reliable Sources” ended his Sunday show with a segment decided claiming President Trump was a “destructive cult” leader like Jim Jones and using “mind control.”
He began the segment by claiming “the word ‘Cult’ has been popping up more and more.” His evidence was the ramblings of anti-Trump talking heads and a serial liar, two of which were on his show in as many weeks:
Think back to two weeks ago on this program, Anthony Scaramucci talked about his claim that Trump supporters are in a cult. Just last week, Dan Rather said he thinks for Trump seems increasingly cultish. And this weekend in The Washington Post, Trump critic and Republican strategist John Weaver said, the GOP is “not a party anymore in the traditional sense; It's a cult.”
His expert on the matter was Steven Hassan, author of The Cult of Trump, and former member of the Unification Church cult of the ‘70s. According to this guy, Trump was “destructive cult” leader, as opposed to those “healthy cult” leaders.
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