Following their being found liable for defamation in January, CNN proclaimed in a statement that they “will of course take what useful lessons we can from this case.” But during Monday’s edition of The Lead, host Jake Tapper once again found himself embroiled in controversy when he refused to strongly push back on Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (CT) after he peddled the long-debunked hoax that billionaire Elon Musk did the “heil Hitler salute,” and other conspiracy theories.
Near the end of their interview, and while contorting his face into all manner of angry expressions, Murphy went on an unhinged rant against Musk and asserted that he had “amplified vicious anti-Semitic information on Twitter, who gave the heil Hitler salute on Inauguration Day.”
“It seems to be standard that the qualification to serve in the Trump administration is…
