Tape shows: ethically, CNN chief a little shaky – Reporting by Matt Taibbi
America this week is obsessing about conversations between Donald Trump and Washington Post legend Bob Woodward. It s a scoop, but a crazier story is being buried.
Beginning on September 1, tapes were released of conversations between former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and top CNN figures, including Chris Cuomo and president Jeff Zucker. The conversations between Zucker and Cohen especially go a long way toward explaining how Donald Trump became president. We see clearly how Zucker, famed now as a supposed stalwart force of anti-Trumpism, actually encouraged him during the 2016 campaign, to the point where he offered Trump help on how to succeed in a CNN-sponsored debate.
Maybe it would be better if we had a hereditary monarch. We could get one from Europe somewhere. They would effectively own the whole country so they would have the incentive to maximize its value instead of the incentive to maximize their personal post-office income. Just a thought. We wouldn’t have to put up this corrupt nonsense from persons of scuminess (POS) trying to get elected and to get others elected. Of course then we’d have aristocrats and courtiers but we could make fun of them. Maybe would could have real rule of law then? Just a thought.