Scott Jennings, former special assistant to George W. Bush, provided his usual, much-needed touch of sanity to CNN Sunday morning, on State of the Union. As a panel hosted by Dana Bash railed against the Trump administration in a by now pretty true-to-form way, Jennings forced them to listen as he confronted them with actual facts about the current state of affairs, and the proper respective functions of the presidency and federal bureaucracy.
His words fell on deaf ears, though, and in the end Bash was still at ease jokingly comparing the administration and its supporters to Nazis.
Bash opened the discussion with President Trump’s meeting Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which ended in a heated exchange of words. She referred to the incident as “theater,” and asked “Is it kind of, ‘Apprentice 2.0,?’” suggesting it was a…
