WATCH: Jake Tapper Tells Viewers To ‘Demand Evidence’ From Trump
Image by Getty Images
Jake Tapper ripped into President Trump’s claim that former President Obama ordered espionage against him, calling it classical “fake news” and despairing over how many voters seemed to have believed the unsupported assertion.
“The president and his team kept pushing ways to make this evidence-free claim somewhere, sort of, possibly in the neighborhood of not entirely false. They failed but they muddied the waters quite a bit,” the feisty CNN anchor said in a commentary on “The Lead.”
Noting that 32 percent of Americans now believe the Trump claim, Tapper urged viewers to demand leaders and the media “adhere strictly to facts and cogent analysis,” even if you “already agree with the politics of the person on your TV.”
Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning journalism this Passover.
In this age of misinformation, our work is needed like never before. We report on the news that matters most to American Jews, driven by truth, not ideology.
At a time when newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall. That means for the first time in our 126-year history, Forward journalism is free to everyone, everywhere. With an ongoing war, rising antisemitism, and a flood of disinformation that may affect the upcoming election, we believe that free and open access to Jewish journalism is imperative.
Readers like you make it all possible. Right now, we’re in the middle of our Passover Pledge Drive and we still need 300 people to step up and make a gift to sustain our trustworthy, independent journalism.
Make a gift of any size and become a Forward member today. You’ll support our mission to tell the American Jewish story fully and fairly.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
Only 300 more gifts needed by April 30
