Washington’s liberal media isn’t just assuming that Democrats will take control of Capitol Hill in next year’s midterm congressional elections. They’re already demanding retaliation against President Donald Trump & Company — even more than leftist lawmakers.
Take, for example, Kasie Hunt, one of CNN’s resident Trump haters, and our weekly Liberal Media Scream.
She was substitute hosting CNN’s State of the Union show on Sunday when she asked Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) if he’d push to impeach Trump or Attorney General Pam Bondi should the Democrats take the House majority.
“Are you considering, or would you support, attempting to impeach the attorney general, Pam Bondi, as some other colleagues have suggested as possible?” wished Hunt.
Later, she pressed Raskin on Trump. “If Democrats retake the House in the fall, which is looking increasingly likely next fall in the midterm elections, do you think impeaching the president should be something the House looks at?” she said.
Trump was impeached twice during his first administration. He was never convicted in the Senate.
Raskin sounded reasonable by comparison, suggesting that maybe building a case for taking on Trump and Bondi is the better place to start, rather than just filing articles of impeachment.
“That’s purely performative. We’re interested in actually getting these materials out,” he said.
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From Sunday’s State of the Union on CNN:
KASIE HUNT: Are you considering, or would you support, attempting to impeach the attorney general, Pam Bondi, as some other colleagues have suggested as possible?
REP. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD) I mean, look, I think everything is on the table here, but people are coming up with solutions that require a majority in Congress. So, we know the Republicans are in control in the House, they’re in control in the Senate. So, when people say, you know, let’s impeach Bondi, let’s impeach Robert F. Kennedy, let’s impeach Trump or whomever, I say, bring me some Republicans and we can have a conversation. Otherwise, what happens is what happened the other day to Al Green. You get up on the floor, and then the whole thing is shot down immediately. So, that’s purely performative. We’re interested in actually getting these materials out.
HUNT: Yeah. So speaking of what happened on the floor, impeachment, I’d like to turn to politics because, as you mentioned, that vote, that impeachment vote, did fail on the floor of the House. If Democrats retake the House in the fall, which is looking increasingly likely next fall in the midterm elections, do you think impeaching the president should be something the House looks at?
RASKIN: I mean, right now, we are all 100% absorbed in trying to do the work of getting information out that’s being withheld by Trump and then going out and campaigning around the country.
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Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “A perfect example of how the Washington press corps do a lot more than just favorably cover what Democratic politicians think and do. They see their role as directing what those elected officials should think and do.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
