CNN’s The Lead hosted some very dangerous and incendiary rhetoric from anchor Jake Tapper during Thursday’s episode as he promoted Democratic Party conspiracy theories that President Trump was going to turn the National Guard on Americas. According to two different segments Tapper presented to his audience, Trump was going to steal the midterm elections, and he found it suspicious troops were being sent to American cities at the same Trump was renaming the Department of Defense back to Department of War.
Earlier in the week, Tapper had described online claims that Trump was dead as “bizarre conspiracy theories.” But that firm condemnation was nowhere to be found when he highlighted and thus promoted Democratic Party claims Trump was going to steal the midterm elections using the National Guard:
TAPPER: And Terry, some Democrats, such as Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, have suggested this isn't about fighting crime itself. Take a listen to what he told CBS Face the Nation.
(Cuts to video)
PRITZKER: He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if in fact he's allowed to do this.
(Cuts back to live)
TAPPER: And the governor of California, Gavin Newsom has said similar things.
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