Scaremonger much, Jim Sciutto?
On today’s CNN This Morning, subbing for Kasie Hunt, Sciutto suggested that if Americans don’t pay sufficient attention to Trump’s handling of Ukraine, it could lead to another 9/11.
Before making that baleful prophecy, Sciutto began by comparing Trump unfavorably to Neville Chamberlain and his failed attempt to appease Hitler. Sciutto approvingly quoted a post by David Frum noting that at least Chamberlain never parroted Nazi propaganda. Sciutto then observed: “Trump is amplifying the Kremlin propaganda here.”
Sciutto pulled the 9/11 redux alarm in response to a statement by panelist Edward-Isaac Dovere, a CNN reporter, that “foreign policy is not usually the kind of thing that voters, or Americans, pay deep, deep attention to.”
Responded Sciutto:
“Listen: they don’t pay attention until it affects their lives, right? You…
