{"id":668,"date":"2026-05-29T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:07:18","slug":"stunned-cnn-anchor-takes-republican-to-task-over-trumps-blatant-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Stunned CNN anchor takes Republican to task over Trump\u2019s blatant hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper could not abide U.S. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) looking past President Donald Trump\u2019s duplicity fueling his controversial $1.8M slush fund.<\/p>\n

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What set Tapper off wre the examples of government\u2019s \u201cweaponization\u201d that Flood used to defend the existence of the unpopular fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump has been under assault from actors in the federal government for a long time. But so have pro-lifers. So has Turning Point USA. So have school board members that were questioning our school board \u2014 people who cared about what the school board was doing. Parents, they were under assault in this lawfare world under Joe Biden,\u201d said Flood.<\/p>\n

But Tapper called out Trump\u2019s own politicized DOJ targeting his perceived enemies with bogus investigations and indictments \u2014 many of which were too flimsy and contrived to survive a grand jury summary.<\/p>\n

Tapper warned that \u201cthere are probably people that would disagree with you\u201d on whether or not it was \u201cinappropriate lawfare\u201d on some of his examples, before going on the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about President Trump telling Attorney General [Pam] Bondi to go after [Sen.] Adam Schiff and [state prosecutor] Letitia James and [former FBI head] James Comey?\u201d demanded Tapper. \u201cWhat about the investigation into Cassidy Hutchinson? What about the investigation into E. Jean Carroll, allegedly for perjury?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo you not see that other people can look at what’s going on right now and say, ‘that’s also lawfare, except it’s against the president’s critics?’\u201d Tapper added.<\/p>\n

But Flood refused to acknowledge the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, in those situations that you just talked about, it takes a grand jury in the federal system, probable cause before they indict. Same thing with Trump. As we have seen several times throughout this current president’s term, his second term they have attempted to get grand jury indictments and grand juries have said \u2018no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Flood also insisted that Comey \u201cwas a government actor\u201d with \u201cgovernment resources\u201d and \u201carguably did things that were out of bounds.\u201d He then defended Trump\u2019s DOJ investigating Trump\u2019s sexual assault victim Carroll, claiming it \u201cwas proven in some sense that she, in fact, did have her efforts underwritten by a donor,\u201d which he claimed qualifies \u201cas perjury.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Flood refused to acknowledge Trump\u2019s own misbehavior in abusing DOJ resources to target his people on his political hit list, as other critics have claimed, saying only \u201cif it’s happening under President Trump, then those individuals should receive compensation from a fund like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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