Anderson Cooper Reveals Why Donald Trump Keeps 'Hijacking' Coronavirus Briefings

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Anderson Cooper on Monday tore into Donald Trump for “hijacking” the White House coronavirus task force briefings, accusing the president of using them as a campaign platform ahead of the 2020 election.

Trump is determined to “rewrite the history of his early and reprehensibly irresponsible response to this virus” at the daily news briefings, said the host of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°.”

The president downplayed the threat posed by the contagion for weeks as it spread, and his administration’s response as the toll soared has been criticized as slow and sloppy. The U.S., now the epicenter of the pandemic, has more than 367,000 confirmed cases and almost 11,000 deaths.

“What the president showed us today is what the nation’s top scientists have to deal with every day,” said Cooper, who said Trump was using the briefings as a “reelection platform” and “an opportunity to lie, to deflect, to attack, to bully and cover up his own deadly dismissals of the virus for crucial weeks.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/anderson-cooper-donald-trump-coronavirus-briefings-071550258.html

[Newest Reality]

1. Stating the obvious.

I am glad he made it clear, but many of us who pay attention have already figured it out.

Now, will the rest of the nation get on board?

[Totally Tunsie]

2. Thank you, Anderson.

This and so much more needs to be said.

[msongs]

3. cooper talking about trump on tv. mission accomplished for trump. cnn is the problem nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. It's really simple......Stop covering these fake "briefings". Even if it means you lose "access"...

for awhile. He can't bear to be out of the spotlight, so he'll cave eventually and let you back in the room.

[MontanaMama]

15. +1

Absolutely. He’s an attention addict...he must have it.

[Meowmee]

22. This

Stop covering him at all. He is not a president, he is a lunatic murderer and needs to be shutdown.

[Stuart G]

5. thank You for posting...K and R..Anderson Cooper really rips into Trump & reveals the truth

This was broadcast on Monday April 6, in the early evening in New York.

[uponit7771]

6. K&R, M$M reporters continue to help him by asking him questions and not working together to get

... solid answers out of people.

People are dying, they're worried about being the story

[Faux pas]

7. Well Duh

[Lonestarblue]

8. I wish White House reporters would not attend his press conference just one day.

And the media should not broadcast either. Instead, the writers should write articles about why they are not attending and point out exactly what Trump is doing. Broadcast media should also explain why they are not covering the presser and then list all the lies and dangerous information Trump pushes. They could spend their on-air time posing the questions we all want answered, like where are the millions of masks promised almost a month ago, why was the national stockpile not maintained, etc. There are enough questions for a good 15-minute segment.

After one day, Trump might get the message that there’s a reason he has a nearly empty room. Of course, Fox and right-wing conspiracy groups would still be represented.

Trump depends on being able to manipulate the media—and they mostly let him do it.

[Alex4Martinez]

9. Good job, CNN. K/R eom

[3Hotdogs]

10. 5-4-3-2, we will learn that Cooper is a disgrace

and a nasty person.


Oh, and with no future in journalism.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. 5-4-3-2-1

CNN will run today's briefing.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I don't think he's that smart.

I think he's just a monkey jacking off in front of the crowd at the zoo.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. You kiss your mother with that mouth?

Welcome to ignore.

[renate]

18. That image of him both amuses me and haunts me now nt

[flibbitygiblets]

13. Then stop normalizing and enabling him. Either ask TOUGH questions or don't give him airtime.

Jeesus, we already know trump's playbook. Stand up and call him on his shit, in front of him. Do your fucking job.

Or at the very least, stop giving him free airtime to spew his lies.

Got it yet??

[Grasswire2]

23. CNN's Jim Acosta is plenty tough.

and Trump hates him.

[marieo1]

14. Nail on the head

Right on, Anderson Cooper.......we need more newscasters to stand up to the mistake in the WhiteHouse. And..........show the world exactly what kind of a person we have as president. He has conned his way all through his life and then he conned his way into the presidency. What a horrible insult he is to all the rest of our upstanding elected officials. Oh, he uses other gullible people to do his dirty tricks and he never has to suffer the consequences. Thank you, Anderson Cooper. Your truthfulness is encouraging. Just maybe DJT will get his, I hope!!

[barbtries]

16. obviously.

these are taking the place of his rallies.

they shouldn't be airing them. send one camera, don't even ask questions. verify the truth of what is said and report it.

the press should stop taking abuse and just sitting there. it's so sick.

[dmr]

20. Precisely. It's a way to skirt around the campaign finance laws.

Instead of the Trump campaign paying for his rallies, they are being paid by the taxpayer. In addition, there's the violation of campaigning inside the White House!

It's all a pretend coronavirus news presser.

You are 100% correct:
"Trump wouldn't hold them if he didn't think they helped him."

It's a ruse. Trump's playing us all. He's conning the American people, and the media knowingly enables him.

[musclecar6]

21. The press needs to keep blasting away at this con man, liar and cheat

With the probing questions that drive him crazy, so he can keep stepping all over himself. Yeah he keeps twisting bullying and lying like crazy, but he makes a fool of himself daily and drives more and more of the independents to Joe.

[Permanut]

24. Cooper's dead on with this..

I'm wondering why when Birx or Fauci is on camera, the camera angle always includes Mango Mussolini loitering at the side. Are the camera operators under some obligation to show his orangeness in every shot?