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Reminder: Trump Derangement Syndrome is very real and a terrible affliction that rots the patient’s brain. A particularly advanced case was on full display during Cuomo Prime Time following President Trump’s address on border security. According to two afflicted patients, the Trump administration approached the media on Monday to request airtime on Tuesday in order to distract from news about Paul Manafort that... hadn’t even happened yet? Okay then.
The scandal in question involved the lawyers for former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort forgetting to redact information in a filing that suggested their client shared campaign polling data with a Russian agent. If true, it could be counted as an incident of collusion.
In an appearance late in the program, Never-Trumper Ana Navarro insisted the President’s address was not only lucky to have happened on the same day, it was planned. “And today! You know why today is a win for Trump despite this farce of an address to Trump nation,” she rhetorically asked host Chris Cuomo. “Because instead of this being the lead story, we are talking about his narrative that he put out with this, you know, with his address to the nation.”
“The same way that he did last week, let's remember, when he had that fake press briefing, which wasn't a briefing, where he took no questions,” Navarro added.
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