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CNN media reporter and TV host Brian Stelter’s hatred for President Trump and Fox News was on full display during Sunday’s “Reliable Sources”. He spent most of the show decrying the President and Fox News while relegating the disturbing and horrific revelations in the sexual misconduct allegations against former CBS executive Les Moonves to a segment during the latter half of the program.
In the first segment of the show, Stelter was speaking with CNN political analyst and former Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein about the similarities between the scandals for former President Richard Nixon and President Donald Trump. “After you and Woodward exposed Watergate you said Nixon was a criminal president and it was a criminal presidency. Is the Trump presidency a criminal presidency,” he wondered.
Bernstein wasn’t ready to go that far just yet, but he was willing to slap the Trump administration with his assumptions:
I think it's very obvious that there has been a criminal conspiracy led by the President of the United States to obstruct justice. It's hard to see otherwise in the filings that have been made public thus far. But on top of that, we also know that there is criminal behavior by Donald Trump in the Southern District of New York case in terms of ordering the payment or approving the payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels and another woman that Michael Cohen testified about.
“But the connect-the-dots aspect of this, this massive obstruction. What is this obstruction about? It is about Russia and all things Russian and that is what Mueller has been charged with,” Bernstein rambled on. “And the individual who the White House was aware of who came back saying they know everything ability Russia, this is about Russia in terms of what Mueller was charged with investigating.”
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