CNN host Christiane Amanpour is a pure match for PBS. On her Saturday present The Amanpour Hour (that does not air on PBS), she engaged within the normal claptrap about Trump being an authoritarian and nudged the Democrat governor of Massachusetts to unfold the lie that it is unprecedented to see a “weaponized Division of Justice,” ignoring every thing Group Biden did to Trump.
On the prime, Amanpour introduced: “Defying courts and testing constitutional limits, is Trump making widespread trigger with worldwide autocrats? I requested Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who’s on the entrance strains of American politics.”
Shortly after, she launched the interview:
Internationally, individuals are asking, is that this what America has develop into? And is it ushering in an age of authoritarianism? In the US, lengthy the bastion of democracy and the rule of regulation, many are attempting to determine the best way to get the ship of state again on an excellent keel.
My first visitor right now, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, is an influential voice in her social gathering. And her state is increasingly of a goal of the present administration. She advised me there is a easy reply. Arise in your constitutional rights or danger dropping them.
They talked about poor Harvard, after which Amanpour thumped the bathtub for Kilmar Abrego Garcia [Hat tip: Media Lies on X]
The governor of Massachusetts claims that Trump is “Weaponizing the DOJ” like we have by no means seen earlier than.
Sure, she really mentioned that.
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AMANPOUR: So while you see Senator Van Hollen going over to El Salvador to attempt to get certainly one of his constituents out of their gang jail there, he was exported or deported with no due course of.
This administration says too dangerous, you understand. Sure, it was an administrative error, however we’re not getting him again. This constitutional disaster that we have been advised would occur when the administration, if it did, problem or refuse a Supreme Court docket or larger court docket order, it is right here now, proper?
HEALEY: It is a — it is actually fairly unbelievable the place we discover ourselves. And simply so people perceive, my background, I used to be lawyer common. In actual fact, I served alongside Pam Bondi for a time because the lawyer common right here in Massachusetts.
What we’re seeing is one thing we have by no means seen earlier than on this nation. The weaponization of the Division of Justice, the launching of fully false, false investigations beneath false pretenses, the refusal to adjust to the rule of regulation, the refusal now to adjust to orders from the US Supreme Court docket.
We have not seen a president of this nation ever do that. And we’re on the eve of celebrating 250 years of this nice American experiment right here, proper this weekend in Massachusetts, in truth. By no means in the midst of historical past has a president so refused to adjust to the rule of regulation. It is dangerous for our individuals. It is dangerous for our democracy. It’s extremely dangerous for enterprise.
These women not solely failed to debate the Biden DOJ’s battle on Trump — together with an armed raid on his dwelling at Mar-a-Lago — they not noted Group Biden’s manipulations of the Hunter Biden case. One of many largest lies that the media elites routinely inform is that Biden’s Division of Justice was someway nonpartisan and un-“weaponized.”
