On CNN this morning, host Kasie Hunt described the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in blunt, truthful terms as:
“A massive failure by the Secret Service.”
Moments later, when panelist Elliott Williams, in the context of a discussion of unverified information on social media, made mention of people floating the notion of an “inside job,” Hunt shut him down, saying:
“We don’t want to get into that.”
Hunt might well have valid journalistic reasons for shutting down speculation about an inside job.
Although it was not as if the person who raised it, Elliott Williams, did so to lend credence to the notion. To the contrary, Williams, a CNN analyst, is a former Obama DoJ official. He mentioned “inside job” in the context of criticizing unverified information on social media.
Williams told people to “put away the social media.” He said there’s a reason…
