New Yorker's Gessen Horrified That 'Reasonable People Can Disagree' About Whether Trump Should be Impeached

During an appearance on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, New Yorker columnist Masha Gessen expressed horror that “reasonable people can disagree” about whether Trump deserved to be impeached, describing that notion as “absolutely terrifying.” Gessen’s comment came after Mark Lukasiewicz, former NBC News executive and Dean of the Hofstra University School of Communications, suggested that those who differ from the “consensus” view about the facts surrounding the Trump impeachment case should not be welcome on legacy media outlets: “there are two competing world view realities...We do a disservice when we serve those up.” As he attempted to make the case that the other side did not deserve to be heard, Lukasiewicz accused CNN analyst Rick Santorum of “gaslighting” and “trying to sow deep, deep, deep confusion in the American public about what is actually going on in the world.” Lukasiewicz had previously objected to host Brian Stelter’s use of the term “theories” to describe the allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election, instead preferring to refer to that narrative as a “disinformation campaign.” According to Lukasiewicz, “one of the failings of our contemporary media” is the hesitancy to describe the aforementioned theory as “deliberate deception” and “fabrication.” Lukasiewicz also contended that “calling it a conspiracy theory lends it a certain credibility.”