CNN’s Dana Bash Accuses Elon Musk of Making Money By ‘Breaking the Rules’ #Political
Considering they just spectacularly lost a major defamation suit, CNN has seemed remarkably unconcerned about throwing around wild accusations. On Monday’s episode of Inside Politics With Dana Bash, Bash seemingly suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had made his money through illegal means, though she never provided evidence. She also lashed out at President Trump’s voters, calling them “the problem.”
Bash summed up what has always been CNN’s transparent view of Trump when she said that what we “cannot lose sight of,” is that the President had a “history” of “being litigious, slowing things down. I mean, we've seen that throughout his career in real estate and in business, and of course, as he made his way back to the presidency.”
“Elon Musk,” she continued, “has that same MO, just the rules are there to be broken effectively, and that's how he became the richest man of the world, when it comes to disrupting. But now he is applying that to the federal government”
In effect, she accused Musk, while offering zero actual evidence, of being a criminal, of becoming the “richest man in the world” through illicit means, and of now bringing his criminality right into the heart of the Capitol itself. Not the best look when your outfit was just found liable of defamation.
Bash went on to trash Musk for his proposal to systematically weed out corrupt and incompetent judges, which she sneered was “just a window into his worldview.”
Washington Post national political reporter Sabrina Rodriguez agreed:
I think hearing Elon Musk express his world view, and hearing Trump and J. D. Vance and other Republicans talk this way is chipping at public confidence in these institutions. I think that is something that Donald Trump has done very effectively since he came into politics…The way he's talked about the justice system over many years, can make people skeptical of it.
It could be pointed out that when the Biden administration came down very hard on more conservative courts and judges that they viewed as an impediment, CNN applauded heartily, particularly with Biden’s action on student loans. CNN also gushed about the ProPublica hit pieces on conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices funded by liberal dark money, which the liberal media eagerly amplified because it damaged the court’s credibility. Hypocrisy or double standard, anyone?
The conversation then turned to Republicans who the panel felt were too passive in the face of the monstrously evil Trump and Musk. “A lot of them don't want to stick their neck out,” chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju opined, “because not only will they get Donald Trump on them, they also get Elon Musk. And that's just simply a bridge too far at this point. We'll see if that changes.”
Bash had an addition to that, though: "Because their own voters who are going to reelect them are Donald Trump's voters. So, therein lies the problem that we've seen since the beginning of Trumpism."
“So, therein lies the problem.” The “problem,” the root of what is wrong in America, being the American voter, according to CNN.
To read the transcript, click "expand":
CNN Inside Politics
January 10. 2024
12:10:56 - 12:11:51 p.m. Eastern(...)
DANA BASH: And the thing that we cannot lose sight of. And you mentioned that Donald Trump's history is being litigious, slowing things down. I mean, we've seen that throughout his career in real estate and in business, and of course, as he made his way back to the presidency. Elon Musk has that same MO, just the rules are there to be broken effectively, and that's how he became the richest man of the world, when it comes to disrupting.
But he is now applying that to the federal government. Just one example of one of the many, many things he posted: “I'd like to propose that the worst one percent of appointed judges as determined by elected bodies, be fired every year. This will weed out the most corrupt and least competent.”
I don't want to read that as like something that's necessarily going to happen. Although, in this environment, who knows. But just I think as a window into his world view.
SABRINA RODRIGUEZ (national political reporter, Washington Post): I think hearing Elon Musk express his world view, and hearing Trump and J. D. Vance and other Republicans talk this way is chipping at public confidence in these institutions. I think that is something that Donald Trump has done very effectively since he came into politics.
The way that he talks about the media, it can make someone who doesn't follow it closely become a little more skeptical. The way he's talked about the justice system over many years, can make people skeptical of it.
And I think that having Elon Musk on X every day, raising questions about different agencies, raising questions about different media institutions, raises questions in the American public. And I think that is the point.
I think Donald Trump wants for the American public to say, well, he did say he wanted to change it up, and he's changing it up, and that's how he gets to do it. And of course, the justice system here. Of course, judges are this backstop. But I think there's a bigger question about, what impact does this rhetoric have on Americans listening in on what's happening?
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12:15:56 p.m. Eastern
MANU RAJU: A lot of them don't want to stick their neck out because not only will they get Donald Trump on them, they also get Elon Musk. And that's just simply a bridge too far at this point. We'll see if that changes.
BASH: Because their own voters who are going to reelect them are Donald Trump's voters. So, therein lies the problem that we've seen since the beginning of Trumpism.
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