CNN’s Powers Mocks Trump and Supports for Being ‘Aggrieved’: ‘Grow up!’

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 31, 2018
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CNN political commentator and USA Today columnist Kristen Powers wore her disdain for Trump supporters and middle America on her sleeve during Wednesday night’s Anderson Cooper 360, as she berated them and President Trump for playing the victim.

In the wake of ABC firing Roseanne Barr and canceling her show after her racist comments, President Trump pointed out the liberal media’s double standard for downplaying similar transgressions against conservatives and others. The White House detailed just a handful of examples of their hypocrisy and CNN refused to address them. They instead chose to whine and cry about Trump was supposedly making it all about him, that’s where Powers came in.

And I'm also not surprised, frankly, that he has turned this into a grievance because that's what he does and that's what a lot of his voters like,” she bitterly spat. “[T]o be in this state of perpetual grievance that they have it so hard, even though none of those things that he mentioned comes anywhere near close to what Roseanne Barr did to Valerie Jarrett.

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