CNN commentator Steve Cortes met with President Donald Trump Friday after CNN benched him for dispelling the “Charlottesville hoax” that the president once called Neo-Nazis “very fine people.
Cortes was seen leaving the White House Friday afternoon, and a source familiar with the situation reported that President Trump met with the CNN contributor in solidarity.
A source said that CNN benched him and prevented him from appearing on CNN for disputing the mainstream media “very fine people hoax.”
The mainstream media– as well as former Vice President Joe Biden — have continued to insist that Trump referred to Neo-Nazis as “fine people.” Cortes and many others have disputed this claim.
During a press conference after the Charlottesville rally in 2017, Trump said, “I’m not talking about the Neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than Neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?”
Cortes has fought the Charlottesville hoax for months.
Fired by the FBI for leaking stories to the media, lying under oath and of course, he hates Trump...the latter and some prestige being all you need to be hired by CNN.
A man is suing Don Lemon, claiming the CNN host attacked him at a Hamptons bar last summer. The suit, obtained by Mediaite, was filed Sunday and seeks unspecified damages for “emotional pain and suffering.”
“The plaintiff in this lawsuit has previously displayed a pattern of contempt for CNN on his social media accounts,” a CNN spokesperson told Mediaite in a statement. “This claim follows his unsuccessful threats and demands for an exorbitant amount of money from Don Lemon. Don categorically denies these claims and this matter does not merit any further comment at this time.”
Dustin Hice claims that Lemon attacked him at Sag Harbor dive bar Murf’s in July 2018. Hice, who was working as a bartender at another Hamptons watering hole at the time, said he approached Lemon at the bar one night after recognizing him. Hice “tried to get Mr. Lemon’s attention and offered to buy Mr. Lemon a drink,” the suit claims. The CNN host declined, stating he was “just trying to have a good time.”
Later in the night, the suit says, Lemon approached Hice.
“Mr. Lemon, who was wearing a pair of shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt, put his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers in Plaintiff’s moustache and under Plaintiff’s nose,” the suit says.
First, it should be noted that this isn't the first time that Cuomo has gone there and compared something relatively trivial to the N-word. Secondly, anyone who's seen The Godfather parts 1 and 2 knows full well that 'Fredo' has become synonymous with a 'weak' sibling and isn't a racist term at all. But in 2019, anything that disagrees with liberal orthodoxy is considered racist. Lastly, now that this video has gone viral and everyone knows that calling him 'Fredo' gets him under his skin, Cuomo will forever be linked to the character and deservedly so.
No pushback at all from Tapper on a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate clearly using a mass shooting to get his poll numbers up. Indeed, O'Rourke is more upset at Trump then the actual shooter and Tapper eggs him on.
