Jake Tapper Is Lying About CNN’s Key Role In The Russia Collusion Hoax
Tapper is not allowed to rewrite his horrible history of propagating the Russia collusion hoax.Tapper is not allowed to rewrite his horrible history of propagating the Russia collusion hoax.CNN anchor suggests 'election denialism' is becoming a 'U.S. export' because of what happened in Brazil
CNN anchor Jim Sciutto worked overtime on Monday to connect Donald Trump and Jan. 6 to chaos in Brazil.
What is the background?
On Sunday, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the now-former president of Brazil who narrowly lost reelection last year, stormed the National Congress of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Brazil, and the Brazilian presidential palace. Bolsonaro's supporters believe election fraud caused Bolsonaro to lose his reelection.
After hours of unrest, law enforcement finally gained control of the situation. The government said that at least 1,200 people were detained, according to the Associated Press.
What did Sciutto say?
Speaking with former Rep. Joe Walsh (R) on CNN about the unrest, Sciutto asked Walsh if the U.S. is becoming an exporter of "election denialism" where it used to export democracy.
"We used to talk about and many folks still imagine this, and perhaps it's true to some extent, the U.S. exports democracy," Sciutto began.
"But as you watch [what happened in Brazil] and how it was seeded by the losing candidate in that election, who had a lot of rapport, one might say, with Donald Trump, is election denialism a new U.S. export?" he asked
\u201cCNN\u2019s \u2066@jimsciutto on the uprising in Brazil: \u201cIs election denialism a new U.S. export?\u201d\u201d— Tom Elliott (@Tom Elliott) 1673274964
Walsh appeared to agree with Sciutto's assessment and suggested other countries learned from Jan. 6.
"The rest of the world watches us. Clearly the rest of the world watched us on Jan. 6," Walsh responded. "I never would have thought that two years removed from a violent attempt to overthrow an American election that ... Donald Trump would still be the leader of the Republican Party and he would be running for president again.
"The world watched what we did on Jan. 6, and Trump and the Republican Party really didn't pay a price," he claimed. "My fear is that this is something that fledgling democracies around the world are learning from us."
Anything else?
Democrats are calling on the U.S. government to "extradite" Bolsonaro back to Brazil from the U.S.
But the White House said on Monday the government cannot do that because it has not received a formal request from Brazil for Bolsonaro's return.
Bolsonaro was reportedly hospitalized in Florida on Monday. He has been in the U.S. for more than a week. He left his home country two days before the inauguration of his successor, Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva.
CNN anchor asks Biden official: 'Why won't the US shoot down' Russian planes?
A Biden administration official wouldn't give a straight answer when asked why the U.S. won't "shoot down" Russian planes that are bombing civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
On Thursday, CNN anchor Jim Sciutto asked State Department spokesman Ned Price to explain why the U.S. won't take military action against Russia, given that the government considers Russian military strikes against civilian targets like hospitals to be war crimes.
The question came up after Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a joint press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda Thursday, during which Harris called Russia's actions "atrocities of unimaginable proportion."
She also said that Russia "absolutely" should be investigated for war crimes.
Afterwards, Price joined "CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto" to discuss the vice president's comments, and he was asked if Russia had committed "war crimes."
"Lamentably, that's an apt description," Price said, adding that "we’re working with the international community, each group to create new mechanisms to ensure that we are holding Russia and will hold Russia accountable for any potential war crimes.”
Sciutto then asked why the U.S. won't take military action and "shoot down" the Russian planes attacking civilians.
"OK, hold them accountable, but not stop them because they’re continuing here. Why won’t the U.S. shoot down the planes that are bombing hospitals?" Sciutto asked.
"Well, Jim, we are providing our Ukrainian partners with what they need to engage in self-defense. And you have seen the effectiveness of that strategy. The Russian war effort really has been stalled," Price answered, deflecting the question. "President Putin has severely miscalculated if he thought he would roll into Ukraine, not find any resistance. Clearly, he was wrong. We have seen convoys stuck. We’ve seen Russians engaged and stopped really in a morass of their own making."
"And we’ve done that by providing over the course of the past year, as you heard from the vice president, more than $1 billion in defense of security assistance, more than $250 million in security assistance over the past week alone," he continued. "And by working with Congress, we’re grateful for Congress’ cooperation. We’ll be able to provide more than $13 billion to our Ukrainian partners, about half of which will be in the form of security assistance."
Sciutto followed up by asking if President Joe Biden is "in effect giving the Kremlin a veto, veto power over U.S. military options here?"
“Jim, we’ve heard a lot of rhetoric from Moscow. I wouldn’t put stock in Moscow’s rhetoric,” Price said, without giving the obvious response that taking direct military action against Russia, like shooting down planes, would start World War III.
(H/T: Mediaite)
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