Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric unsuccessfully tried not once, not twice, but three times to get Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman to label President Trump as anti-democratic on Thursday’s episode of her Next Question podcast. It was just another example of former broadcast anchors and reporters confirming that they were not the down-the-middle reporters they claimed to be.
Couric’s first swing came when she wondered, “You've said that Donald Trump, in your view, is not an autocrat because his presidency is quote, ‘the product of a democratic election.’ But history has shown that even leaders who come to power through elections can still govern in anti-democratic ways. So, I have to ask, when you consider some of Donald Trump's behaviors and policies, like deploying federal forces to US cities, undermining the Department of Justice's independence, attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Does that not trouble you deeply?
After Fetterman insisted that he can still be a good Democrat and not believe that trying to convince people that democracy is in peril is not the best hill “to die on” because the recent government shutdown proves that such fearmongering is silly, Couric swung at strike two, “Do you think that Donald Trump is not conducting himself or not pushing policies though that you would consider to be anti-democratic?”
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