Wolf Blitzer uncharacteristically critical on Twitter:

[George II]

Link to tweet

[Zoonart]

1. WHY am I not seeing this headline?

Trump must resign.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Yes. He's typically cautious. But it also makes me wonder why

a seasoned news guy and the press as a whole aren't more curious and more focused on:

1) Trump's disfunctional personality fully on display here. When trump wins he wins. When trump loses he spins it so he wins.

2) Why can't anyone stop him? Where are the flaws in our system that allows him to do what he does. Who else is at fault? Who else was briefed on the deadliness of Covid in February and were silent?

[PatSeg]

4. Yes, alone Trump couldn't have done nearly as much

as he did. He had enablers and sycophants to keep this nightmare going. He needed leaders in congress, his cabinet, intelligence, and the military to say, "No, you can't do that". I put the biggest blame on McConnell and the republicans in congress who just went along, to get along.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Yes. And each has their own motivation to stick around. If

I didn't despise them so much, I would think, I get it. You stand up or your senate career is over. He replaced any free thinkers in his cabinet. Wonder if Anonymous still around. If yes, need new book

[PatSeg]

14. That really bothers me

that someone would put a political career before decency, principles, and the country they supposedly serve. These are people who generally have very good lives. If they lost their seat because they stood up to Trump, it would not be the end of their world, they have other options. But there reaches a point of no return and they will be tarnished forever. What kind of a person sells their character and soul for political office? And how could they ever be trusted again?

Yes, I wonder about Anonymous as well. You'd think that if he'd left the administration, he would reveal himself by now. And if he's still around, I would expect he would be writing articles or as you say, a new book.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. But there reaches a point of no return and they will be tarnished forever.

Thought that at impeachment. To me, that was the line in the sand. I think trump promises people stuff. Like it was published that Trump called gov abbott in TX about covid. Then Bang two days later abbott prematurely lifted covid rules. Set us back big time. No one was required to wear masks when state reopened. Nightmare since then. Anyway shortly thereafter TX got $$$$ for something.

[PatSeg]

17. I'm sure Trump uses numerous tactics

in his bag of tricks and bribery certainly is one. With people like Lindsey Graham, I think there is some kind of blackmail. Others just follow along like sheep. That is how republicans have operated for many years, especially after Newt Gingrich's Contract with America. Republicans were all admonished to be on the same page all the time. No deviations were tolerated. If politicians wanted republican fundraising help, they had to play along. In a sense, it was a brilliant and effective political philosophy, but it made for terrible governance.

I'm sure in the years to come, we'll discover more of what went on behind the scenes in this administration. Bit by bit the truth will come out and its probably even worse than we'd expect.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Out of town so not keeping up. But did trump really spend 300mm on campaign ads?

Of covid $$

[PatSeg]

20. Oh, I actually turned off the news

earlier and haven't been paying attention. If you nod off for a bit, something always happens with this administration. Guess I'll have to catch up now.

[PatSeg]

21. Oh shit!

Trump doesn't have to worry so much about campaign funds it seems. He just took $300 million from the CDC for ads that will benefit him. Very convenient that the story came out on the weekend isn't it? You can never turn your back on these people for one minute. What a lot of nerve.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. That's SO funny. Do the same thing. In shower, run to store, something

Big always happens.

This money to me is 100% Impeachable. Throw it on the pile.

[PatSeg]

24. Just one of so many impeachable offenses

It is really hard to keep up. No president has ever gotten away with so much and as such, he has become emboldened. I don't think there is a limit to what he would do if he got the chance.

[DallasNE]

16. Better Question

Why wasn’t the Gang of 8 notified? Indeed, why are they not angered by this coverup? And where are the investigative reporters covering this? A lot of blame to go around. Even Brix and Fauci get failing grades for their silence because it lead to people dying.

[DFW]

3. If I were a member of the press, I'd be going nuts right about now

You always have to verify what you report BEFORE you report it, but how do you write copy when the insanity coming out of Trump's mouth is so off the wall that you can't tell if it's really from Trump or from Andy Borowitz.

For that matter, pity guys like Andy Borowitz, trying to write satire that is even LESS believable than what Trump really says. Borowitz makes his living writing stuff that he is sure greatly exaggerates any nonsense Trump would ever really say, and then Trump comes out with some gibberish that makes Borowitz's satire seem like the more believable text of the two.

[gratuitous]

5. Those are definitely headlines, Wolf

Do you think they're good or bad? I notice you didn't render a judgment on that.

[Lucinda]

6. KNR

[C Moon]

7. Yes. For the past four years. Where have you been, Wolf?

[ffr]

11. Exactly! Coming from the guy who was all to okay with reporting 'both sides do it"

When taking down Hillary's campaign to keep the horse race ratings for CNN going.

So congratulations, Wolf, you facilitated those headlines, so how can you act surprised?

[jaxexpat]

8. Who are you and what have you done with Wolfe?

I know you aren't the guy who stands flat footed, scripted, uttering banalities for decades never learning one solitary, blessed thing about anything. Literally, THE dumbest creature ever created by Nielson.

Who WOULD'NT know we'd be reading these headlines except someone who genuinely doesn't have any comprehension of the world going on immediately around him even as ALL the data is at his fingertips? Of course, there are the inevitable lapses in comprehension and voids in historical understanding required of those who preach the gospel of 24/7 cable news, both-side-erism

[calimary]

9. It's the old "must be objective" thing.

As a retired journalist, I do get that. HOWEVER, it’s been four years if this shit. Not counting the year-and-a-half or so of the campaign. AND, for those who kept track, MANY other manifestations in the years leading up to the actual 2016 campaign (birtherism, anyone?).

And in that time, seems to this observer anyway, we’ve seen MORE than enough to start dispensing with the traditional “objectivity.” It no longer makes sense. It no longer applies. We’ve seen and heard and tracked and logged FAR too much. There’s been WAY too much to prove the need to point out the realities here. And the many many many lies, deceits, cases of negligence and actual, documented treason. Seems to me, anyway, that he’s squandered all conventions of “benefit of the doubt.”

[jaxexpat]

13. None of this nonsense would enjoy the light of day if the media had simply settled for ......

"just the facts". Followed by "dammit". No need (or license) to stretch the truth, accommodating a totally manufactured equanimity, all of it masquerading as "in depth coverage". Pathetic and so common for so long, the beating heart in the dumbing of America (and thus the world).

[sandensea]

12. The NYT, selectively mangling headlines as per usual

To the uninformed, they make it sound as though Trump's "having a problem with Congress" again on some vote or other.

All the more so with the weasel headline just below about the GOP "vowing to respect" results (yeah, right!).

WaPo's is perfect.

[lindysalsagal]

19. Sure. With wanna-be's like you carrying their water for years...

You're an enabler, Wolfie. Enabler.

[JI7]

23. See CNN Election Reporting for the 2016 Election for Why it came to this