On Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS and CNN International, journalist Walter Isaacson talked to George Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic operative in President Bill Clinton’s White House and now the cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America and the Sunday political roundtable This Week, about his new book The Situation Room — The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis.
The weirdest plug for the book was ABC’s Jeopardy! Masters having George narrate a category on presidential crises.
After hailing President Barack Obama for making the call that took out Osama Bin Laden for 9/11, the discussion predictably turned to Stephanopoulos’s ongoing pretentious fretting about the possible reelection of Donald Trump. Isaacson set the Democratic operative turned media up to spread his fear-mongering about a second Trump term to a tax-funded…
