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CBS’s King Whines People Don’t Care Enough About Trump Trial (Unlike ABC)
Newsbusters ^ | 4/16/2024 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 04/17/2024 10:48:56 AM PDT by Signalman

Amid the voluminous coverage on the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC this week on the start of the hush money trial brought by far-left Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg against former President Trump, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings whined not enough Americans care about this trial....like ABC’s Good Morning America, who was tickled pink about Trump suffering.

CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman had just finished explaining why this Trump trial is “significant because it’s first” and “is a solemn day in court when you put a former President...on trial” when co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King kvetched about the American public not being consumed by this.

“We should point out this is not normal. You know, Donald Trump always says he’s a — it’s a witch hunt, everyone’s against him, that it’s unprecedented, but also his behavior, for a lot of people, is unprecedented,” King huffed.

She then added the times we’re living in are “just not normal” and, despite all these histrionics, she’s “worr[ied] that the audience just hears white noise when they hear all of these cases running together.”

They may, but this is the first one that actually is going forward, so the attention will be on this one. But, no, it is not normal. Nothing about this follows legal norms in a courtroom. It may happen this time because Judge Merchan is strict and he’s going to run a courtroom the way it should be run, but 34 felonies for business records? Not normal.

Over on ABC, co-host and former Clinton flack Stephanopoulos giddily told chief Washington correspondent and three-time bestselling anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl that after having spent a year “talking about the political and legal calendars clashing”, Monday finally arrived.

Stephanopoulos added Monday “felt” like a change in “the dynamic...from” the past “when Donald Trump was so convinced” the charges would be boon for his campaign.

Karl beamed in announcing he saw “it in his behavior, in his demeanor” with Monday having been “a wake-up call for Donald Trump” in the form of “his new reality” as “now criminal defendant Trump”.

Clearly excited (and perhaps about the idea of a fourth book to hawk about Trump), Karl looked enthused at the idea of “see[ing] the bitterness, the anger” and “energy drained from” Trump:

Sure, he’s been indicted four times, he’s had to go to his indict — go to his arraignments, but now, he has to be inside a non-descript courtroom in lower Manhattan day after day against his will. He must be there and he is in a courtroom where he has no control. The judge is the boss and, for the most part, he has to be silent. You could see the bitterness, the anger, I think, the — the energy drained from him when he walked out of that courtroom at the end of the day. That was a different Donald Trump. And, look, he was restrained yesterday. He didn’t violate the gag order. He didn’t lash out at anybody. But how is this going to affect his psyche and his behavior as he does this for the next roughly two months?


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To: Signalman

Gayle King.....shouldn’t she be at her gal pal Oprah’s 100 million dollar pad in Montecito munching on lobster tails and hanging out with Harry and Meghan?


21 posted on 04/17/2024 11:44:27 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

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22 posted on 04/17/2024 11:54:30 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN 💎GOING GfirstETS TOUGH KEEP GOING💎 IfIT DOESNT KiILL yOU I wil MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
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To: Signalman

As far as whether Trump will be allowed to attend his son’s high school graduation, I heard that the judge can allow it only if the prosecutor agrees...so Alvin Bragg can refuse permission. Very likely he will do so out of spite.


23 posted on 04/17/2024 11:58:12 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Signalman

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/04/17/trump-on-trial-having-reverse-effect-we-love-trump-chants-break-out-in-harlem-n2637904


24 posted on 04/17/2024 12:13:03 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Signalman

CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman - apparently is a poor lawyer if she can’t recognize this lawfare for what it is.


25 posted on 04/17/2024 12:15:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Signalman

Sack of lard Alvin Bragg tells Trump welcome to the new Salem.

Orders crew to get the fire started.


26 posted on 04/17/2024 1:11:58 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: 1Old Pro

She probably does recognize this lawfare for what it is but the most important thing for all of the propaganda media is getting g another Dem into the White House. They will say whatever is needed to accomplish this.


27 posted on 04/17/2024 1:31:27 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Signalman

People dont care about the fake trial 😭 waaaaa


28 posted on 04/17/2024 1:51:27 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yet they get paid quite well.


29 posted on 04/17/2024 2:03:23 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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