CNN appears to be carrying water for the ABC News moderators who provoked a backlash over their biased handling of the debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
As Slay News reported, David Muir and Linsey Davis are facing an intense backlash over the obvious bias they expressed while moderating the ABC News debate.
Both Muir and Davis are being shamed for their clear anti-Trump bias and the way it impacted the way they handled the debate.
They both repeatedly needled Trump with “fact-checks” throughout the debate.
Meanwhile, they allowed Harris to lie with impunity and didn’t once “fact-check” any of the vice president’s widely debunked claims.
Seemingly jumping on the bandwagon, CNN’s John Berman repeatedly interrupted Trump’s campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt with more phony “fact checks” during a Wednesday interview.
As Leavitt tried to speak, Berman cut her off multiple times as he attempted to present his opinions as overruling “facts.”
On “CNN News Central,” Leavitt reiterated the criticism about Muir and Davis unfairly “fact-checking” Trump.
However, Berman interrupted Leavitt to deflect and read from an X post defending the network before “fact-checking” the Trump campaign spokeswoman.
“I think President Trump was defending himself from attacks and lies from [Vice President] Kamala Harris that unfortunately were not fact-checked by the moderators in this debate,” Leavitt said.
“They fact-checked President Trump five times, they didn’t fact-check Kamala Harris once, even though she repeatedly lied about President Trump and his positions on the issues.
“She said he supports a federal ban on abortion.
“That is unequivocally false.
“He has said repeatedly he does not support a ban on abortion.
“Kamala Harris said that he supports Project 2025. He does not.”
Berman cut Leavitt off and did not address her allegations about Harris’s false claims.
Instead, the CNN anchor asked the Trump spokeswoman about Trump’s abortion comments during the debate.
Berman argued that Trump’s comments during the debate must have been false because the CNN host “had not heard” his position before, despite Trump stating it multiple times previously.
“Karoline, last night on the debate stage, I will say this,” Berman said after interrupting Leavitt.
“It was a position I had not heard before from him, which he refused to say that he would veto a national ban on abortion,” Berman said.
“He was given a chance multiple times to say that he would veto a national ban and he wouldn’t do it.”
“Well, he has said multiple times, as well, that he will not sign a ban on abortion and it’s because it’s a states rights issue now,” Leavitt responded.
“And Kamala Harris also refused to say if she supports a ban on late-term abortions in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy.
“President Trump pointed that question at her directly twice.
“She refused to answer it and she laughed it off.
“And voters deserve an answer to that question.”
Berman then read the post by leftist The Atlantic staff writer Tim Alberta, which states:
“One way to look at it: ABC moderators fact-checked Trump 2-3 times and Harris zero times.
“Another way to look at it: ABC moderators fact-checked Trump 2-3 times instead of 500 times.”
The CNN host asked Leavitt about Trump’s healthcare plan that the 45th president asserted he will release soon.
He asked when it would be publicized.
Leavitt told Berman she does not have a date for the plan’s release yet.
“President Trump’s plan to drive down healthcare costs … is to let the free market thrive to increase competition in the healthcare marketplace to give Americans more options for healthcare,” Leavitt said.
“That is the opposite of what Kamala Harris wants to do in healthcare.
“She was the co-sponsor of Bernie Sanders’ socialist Medicare for All plan.
“She said last night she doesn’t support that anymore.
“That was also a lie that wasn’t fact-checked by the moderators.
“Kamala Harris’s radical healthcare will eventually force every American off of their private health insurance …
“President Trump wants to drive down costs and increase the quality of care here at home and you do not do that by forcing people off of their private health insurance plans like Kamala Harris wants to do.”
“She said that is not her plan last night,” Berman said before ending the interview.
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