We’ve been clear that our expectations for Jake Tapper and Dana Bash in this CNN debate are low, considering their years of Trump-trashing antics. Under Jeff Zucker, Tapper and Bash and all the rest were relentlessly warning that Trump was dangerously inept, mentally unfit, and temperamentally authoritarian.
It’s a little amazing CNN political director David Chalian told the AP that they don’t plan to “fact check” the candidates. Chalian left a door open: “Obviously, if there is some egregious fact that needs to be checked or the record needs to be made clear, Jake and Dana can do that,” he said. “But that’s not their role. They are not here to participate in this debate. They are here to facilitate a debate between Trump and Biden.”
Don’t hold your breath this pledge will be observed. Fighting with Trump is in CNN’s DNA. They’ll find the…
