Democrat lawmaker melts down on CNN, downplays Biden’s terrible performance while attacking network for failing to “fact-check” Trump.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) was not happy with CNN over its handling of the debate between former President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
During his Friday appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”, Goldman minimized Biden’s disastrous debate performance and instead went after CNN for allowing Trump to make his case before the American people without many fact-checks or interruptions.
“It was a bad night. There was a poor performance but one night does not make a campaign and it does not erase three-and-a-half years of stellar leadership that has brought our country back to the forefront on a global stage, has protected democracy around the world and he here at home and has benefited the vast majority of Americans, lower-class, middle-class Americans, through some historic, historic legislation,” Goldman told host Anderson Cooper.
“And when you compare what you saw from Joe Biden last night to what you saw from Donald Trump, you realize that this is a choice ultimately, in November of someone who is a decent, honest man of integrity, who has served his country his entire life against a felon, who is an inveterate liar and only cares about himself.”
“I think Joe Biden had an off tonight it was a poor performance. There’s no question about it and no one is saying anything different. But let’s have another debate. Let’s see what happens on a different night. Let’s see whether Donald Trump continues to lie over and over to deny his role in January 6, too. Proudly say that he increased the deficit more than any other president by reducing taxes on the super wealthy he is blatantly mischaracterizing the disaster that was his presidency and that got a lot of attention and didn’t get a lot of pushback.”
“But let’s have another debate where actually the moderators will push back on Donald Trump’s lies. He intimidated your network unfortunately, and there was no push back. He was given free reign to just lie as much as he wants and that’s not helpful to the American public either.” he added.
Cooper responded, “Yeah, I don’t know about the intimidation part.”
What Goldman didn’t mention was nearly every condition set by CNN was meant to give Biden the advantage.
CNN stated before the debate that moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash would fact-check Trump on Biden’s behalf, claiming it wouldn’t let the “responsibility” of fact-checking Trump during the debate “fall to Biden.”
After the debate, CNN anchor Erin Burnett even admitted that Sleepy Joe knew in advance every question he was going to be asked.
