Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone earlier this week stated CNN’s Scott Jennings “does not deserve a platform,” calling him “an opportunist” who curiously modified his thoughts about President Donald Trump to reap the advantages as a Republican heel on “NewsNight.”
A mob of MAGA voters attacked Fanone throughout the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and he later suffered a coronary heart assault. He joined Mediate reporter Tommy Christopher’s Substack for an interview on Wednesday, torching Jennings by means of a lot of it.
Christopher requested if there’s at the very least a profit to “NewsNight” host Abby Phillip frequently calling Jennings out, but additionally famous that “she won’t call him a liar to his face.” Whereas Phillip has completed so on social media, Fanone argued “that’s the problem.
“The other thing she’s doing is she’s elevated Scott Jennings’ platform to a position now where he has this tremendous podcast and he’s become a darling of the right,” Fanone added. “Scott Jennings does not deserve a platform!”
Fanone additionally identified that Jennings frequently contradicts his personal “relatively moderate views” from 4 or 5 years in the past. Jennings referred to as Trump an “authoritarian” in 2016 and stated he “violated his oath of office” on Jan. 6.
Fanone added that “for every person that thinks he’s an asshole and a clown, there’s 200 people on the right” which might be beginning to tune into CNN for Jennings as a result of he goes on CNN “and ‘owns the libs’ day in and day out… and I just don’t think that it’s healthy for the country.”
Jennings has defended a number of Trump blunders this 12 months. He additionally argued that if the president was concerned within the crimes of late baby intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, “we would already know” — regardless of categorized paperwork within the matter nonetheless awaiting launch.
Phillip did push again throughout that dialogue and is conscious of the criticisms of her present.
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She stated throughout a current “Breakfast Club” interview that platforming pro-Trump voices is “an opportunity” to have much-needed debates. She added that she attracts her personal traces on sure “NewsNight” company and their feedback “when they need to be drawn.”
Fanone expressed a distinct ethos throughout his Substack look.
“I don’t have any interest in debating MAGA,” he stated. “I’m not going to sit here and debate with you about whether it’s inhumane or unconstitutional to go in and rip people away from their families and deport them with no due process. That’s not a debate for me.”
He continued, “It’s not a debate for me to tell you about my experience on Jan. 6. I couldn’t care less about convincing you. The only thing that I want to do is defeat you. I want to remove you and your extremist ideology from our political discourse in this country because I find it to be unhealthy.”
