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2022-08-22 Government Corruption

CNN's Acosta clashes with Trump's former DHS chief over election 'lies'

[THEHILL] CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
anchor Ace Newshound Jim Acosta
...CNN's showboating White House correspondent...
clashed with former acting Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf on Sunday over his claims of election fraud.

The exchange quickly became heated as Acosta pushed Wolf, who served under former President Trump, to say whether President Biden justly won the last election.

"Who won the 2020 election?" Acosta asked after Wolf expressed concern over voter fraud and irregularities.

"Obviously Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
is president," the former HHS secretary responded.

"No, no, no," Acosta retorted. "Do you believe that he won that election fair and square?"

Wolf again answered the question indirectly.

"Joe Biden is president," Wolf said, adding that he didn’t have all of the evidence needed to conclude that Biden’s victory was legitimate.

Wolf cited Wisconsin’s use of drop boxes to back up his claims of fraud, noting that polling consistently shows a lack of confidence in election security among Americans.

"There are a number of irregularities, illegalities and fraud," Wolf said before Acosta interrupted.

"Not enough to alter the outcome of the election," the CNN anchor shot back.

Acota slammed Wolf, accusing him of undermining democracy and leading Americans down a "path of lies."

"It sounds like you’ve watched one too many conspiracy theories on the 2020 election," Acosta said as the segment came to a close.

Posted by Fred 2022-08-22 01:16|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 ...formerly the "Cable News Network", now who know what it might stand for...

We called it the 'Clinton News Network' back in the day. Perhaps that hasn't changed.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-22 07:56|| 2022-08-22 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Nobody knows how.much fraud and irregularity there was, Jim, you least of all.

Posted by Bobby 2022-08-22 07:57|| 2022-08-22 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 "Not enough to alter the outcome of the election," the CNN anchor shot back." An admission that it wasn't the cleanest, fairest, most just election in American history? Or that all elections were worse?

Either way ifs the first chip in the monolithic narrative.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-22 07:58|| 2022-08-22 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 "Not enough to alter the outcome of the election,"

That is actually quite a walk-back from the original "No evidence of widespread election fraud". NPR has been hitting the election integrity theme pretty hard lately, with frequent mentions of "Trump's Big Lie" and the phrase "election denier".

Traffic analysis would suggest they are worried about something.

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-22 08:50|| 2022-08-22 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I prefer the Kari Lake solution to CNN appearance opportunities.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-22 09:11|| 2022-08-22 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 A Ukrainian soldier put on trial by the Russians has a better chance of getting fair treatment than a pro-Trump Republican has on CNN.

Posted by Matt 2022-08-22 12:50|| 2022-08-22 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 "Widespread" fraud is a strawman. Who said 'widespread'?

Cook County (Chicago) was sufficient to put Kennedy in the White House in 1960.

Posted by Bobby 2022-08-22 13:23|| 2022-08-22 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 All the Dems really had to do in 2020 to make the steal was mail-in ballots; everything else was icing on the cake.

Posted by Raj 2022-08-22 13:39|| 2022-08-22 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^ And if they didn't quite get enough, truck in a few more after-hours.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-22 17:51|| 2022-08-22 17:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Time magazine: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign

Posted by KBK 2022-08-22 18:01|| 2022-08-22 18:01|| Front Page Top

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