CNN host Christiane Amanpour is a natural match for PBS. On her Saturday show The Amanpour Hour (that doesn’t air on PBS), she engaged in the usual claptrap about Trump being an authoritarian and nudged the Democrat governor of Massachusetts to spread the lie that it’s unprecedented to see a “weaponized Department of Justice,” ignoring everything Team Biden did to Trump.
At the top, Amanpour announced: “Defying courts and testing constitutional limits, is Trump making common cause with international autocrats? I asked Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who’s on the front lines of American politics.”
Shortly after, she introduced the interview:
Across the world, people are asking, is this what America has become? And is it ushering in an age of authoritarianism? In the United States, long the bastion of democracy and the rule of law, many are trying to figure out how to get the ship of state back on an even keel.
My first guest today, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, is an influential voice in her party. And her state is more and more of a target of the current administration. She told me there’s a simple answer. Stand up for your constitutional rights or risk losing them.
They talked about poor Harvard, and then Amanpour thumped the tub for Kilmar Abrego Garcia [Hat tip: Media Lies on X]
The governor of Massachusetts claims that Trump is “Weaponizing the DOJ” like we’ve never seen before.
Yes, she actually said that.
Did she live under a rock for the last decade? pic.twitter.com/5K7Jjjl3Vl
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AMANPOUR: So when you see Senator Van Hollen going over to El Salvador to try to get one of his constituents out of their gang jail there, he was exported or deported with no due process.
This administration says too bad, you know. Yes, it was an administrative error, but we’re not getting him back. This constitutional crisis that we were told would happen when the administration, if it did, challenge or refuse a Supreme Court or higher court order, it’s here now, right?
HEALEY: It’s a — it’s really quite unbelievable where we find ourselves. And just so folks understand, my background, I was attorney general. In fact, I served alongside Pam Bondi for a time as the attorney general here in Massachusetts.
What we’re seeing is something we’ve never seen before in this country. The weaponization of the Department of Justice, the launching of completely false, false investigations under false pretenses, the refusal to comply with the rule of law, the refusal now to comply with orders from the United States Supreme Court.
We’ve not seen a president of this country ever do this. And we’re on the eve of celebrating 250 years of this great American experiment here, right this weekend in Massachusetts, in fact. Never in the course of history has a president so refused to comply with the rule of law. It’s bad for our people. It’s bad for our democracy. It’s very bad for business.
These ladies not only failed to discuss the Biden DOJ’s war on Trump — including an armed raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago — they left out Team Biden’s manipulations of the Hunter Biden case. One of the biggest lies that the media elites routinely tell is that Biden’s Department of Justice was somehow nonpartisan and un-“weaponized.”
