Bias Watch: CNN's Jake Tapper retweets comment calling Trump '100% insane'

Tapper defended his retweet, saying that retweets do not necessarily equal endorsements

Published: April 7, 2020 8:46pm

Updated: April 7, 2020 11:24pm

CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday retweeted a tweet that described President Trump as "100% insane."

Tapper retweeted George Conway, the outspoken anti-Trump husband of Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, who was responding to a post from Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery.

"Either nobody in the Trump administration has the balls to tell Trump the truth or he is 100% insane. There's really not a lot of middle ground," Jeffery tweeted.

"He’s 100% insane, and nobody in the administration has the balls to tell him that," Conway responded.

When Tapper retweeted Conway's remark, he described it as a "Noteworthy comment on folks in the administration from a Trump critic who knows a lot of them."

Tapper later defended his decision to share Conway's post after George Washington University Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley said that Tapper's retweet "further undermines the media" by confirming some people's view that the media is biased against President Trump.

"I RTed Conway, a conservative attorney and Trump critic, because he wrote that no one in the administration has the courage to stand up to the president which seems newsworthy given how many people in the administration he knows," Tapper explained, adding that retweets do not automatically indicate an endorsement of the content being retweeted.

 

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