CNN Journalists Lament Giving Trump Election by Reporting on ‘Bogus’ (WTF) Clinton Email Server

The panel on CNN’s New Day Tuesday morning used the Ivanka Trump email story to fawn over Hillary Clinton, admitting regret over giving it “too much” attention during the 2016 election cycle. The journalists revealed their bias in calling it a “bogus” story to begin with, complaining that they probably helped seal her defeat by giving it attention.

Co-host Alisyn Camerota: “I mean, the staggering hypocrisy…[T]he next time we hear lock her up chants, at a Trump rally, which we will -- who will they be talking about?” Camerota asked sarcastically.

JEFFREY TOOBIN: It also just underlines what a bogus issue the e-mails were from the beginning. And it chose the Trumps don't even care about the e-mails because they recognize that people their personal and business e-mails. They probably shouldn't do it, but they did it anyway. Hillary Clinton did it. Ivanka Trump did it. Jared Kushner did it. And it's not that big a deal. It was turned into a big deal in the 2016 campaign.

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While the journalists punished themselves for reporting on Clinton’s email scandal, the networks as a whole only spent ⅙ of their reporting time on Clinton, on that particular topic. On New Day, the hosts even went out of their way to deny Clinton had done anything wrong, with this exchange in September of 2015:

There’s “nothing in here that reeks of illegality,” Berman ruled...“If there’s no smoking gun, when does the e-mail issue go away?” his co-host Alisyn Camerota echoed.

Less than 50%

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