Audie Cornish wants Trump’s tariffs cast in the most negative possible light.
On today’s CNN This Morning, host Cornish played a clip of a plain-spoken Iowa soybean farmer: “You know, it’s just a match, you know? And nobody’s going to win.” The p-word was muted but it’s clear what he said.
A bit later, when panelist Kevin Frey [a Spectrum News reporter] launched an earnest, factual description of the effects of tariffs, Cornish eventually cut him off, saying:
“We just got a deep dive into commodities from you, which, you know, I like it. You’re bringing some good energy this morning. But the farmer gave us a very, like—people understand what tariffs are now, right?”
Note that as Cornish cut him off, the panelist Frey realized he was being dissed, and actually apologized: “sorry.”
The panel’s take on tariffs was uniformly negative,…
