Neil Cavuto, anchor of "Your World" on Fox News channel, was responding to the latest chaos created by President Trump and Rudy Giuliani about the $130,000 hush money payment. Cavuto unloaded in a way I never expected to hear on Fox News. This concluding excerpt is verbatim:
"Let me be clear, Mr. President. How can you drain the swamp if you're the one who keeps muddying the waters? You didn't know about that $130,000 payment to a porn star, and then you did. You said you knew nothing about how your former lawyer Michael Cohen handled this, until you acknowledged today you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this.
"I'm just having a devil of a time figuring out which news is right. I guess you're too busy draining the swamp to stop and smell the stink that you're creating. That's your doing. That's your stink -- Mis-ter Pres-i-dent."
I was watching Nicole Wallace's news show on MSNBC Friday afternoon when she played this clip from Fox News. Nicole's reaction was the same as mine: a jaw-dropping WOW! This coming from a Fox News anchor. WOW.
This is significant, possibly a turning point. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Trump should worry that the American people will stop believing anything he says. Mara Gay of the New York Times editorial board added to this, saying that we've reach a critical point where people choose to believe news depending on its source, and we are so politically divided, even tribal.
Mara Gay added: People who get their news only from the Wall Street Journal -- or especially only from Fox News -- will now see something other than adulation of Trump.
Ralph
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