CNN was in pretty typical form Monday – absorbed with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and still quite comfortable making up and promoting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about him on the spot. On Inside Politics, Dana Bash interviewed former CFPB director Rohit Chopra, ostensibly on Musk’s plan to cut the agency, and Chopra conjectured wildly about Musk abusing his position for his own illicit profit, to which Bash happily played along.
Bash neglected to mention that Chopra had, in addition to his former post at the Consumer Financial Protection Board, held a long series of positions in the Democratic Party, and was far from a neutral source.
“What is happening, as Musk and his team… have access to pretty much everything in the federal government- sensitive data about… American citizens?” she asked…
