On Wednesday’s edition on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, co-host Mark Halperin admitted what many on the left probably wouldn’t dare to. He admitted that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s comments about Donald Trump have not been as controversial as they should be because she’s a liberal. “If a Republican justice did that to a Democratic candidate, I think, the world explode,” Halperin exclaimed to co-host John Heilemann.
Halperin’s exclamation came in response to his co-host who described Ginsberg’s comments as “unusual” and “probably inappropriate.” Halperin had plenty to say about Notorious RBG’s disparaging Trump comments. “NO! Definitely inappropriate. Repudiated by some Democrats. In this partisan period that’s extraordinary,” he said, speaking over Heilemann.
There is evidence to support Halperin’s assertion about the lack of explosiveness to the issue. During Tuesday evening’s broadcast both ABC and CBS ignored the ethical issues of the comments, with only NBC saying they were a question of ethics.
Heilemann agreed but had his own question to raise, “The question is whether Donald Trump gets much benefit out of attacking Ginsburg in the way he is attacking her.” He argued that Trump could combat her in a better way that would get, “everyone in the world who is not hopelessly partisan would say, “You know what? Trump has a point there.””
Halperin thought differently saying, “I think it’s good for Trump to even to do it this way … Again, probably not appealing to that many people in the center, but he does have some people on the left criticizing Ginsburg. And I think that helps his cause no matter how he takes it up.”