Jake Tapper: New Trump TV project is “not real and it’s not news, and it’s definitely not real news”

Tapper: “Empirically there is nothing journalistic about a political organization that exists to support a politician”

From the August 7 edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper:

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JAKE TAPPER (HOST): Well we found out yesterday when President Trump’s facebook page unveiled a mock newscast from former CNN contributor and longtime Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany. The conservative website RedState.com called this quote, “propaganda straight out of North Korea’s playbook.” Obama’s former ambassador to Russia said it quote, “feels eerily like so many state-owned channels I’ve watched in other countries.”

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Now empirically there is nothing journalistic about a political organization that exists to support a politician cheering on that politician. It’s not real and it’s not news, and it’s definitely not real news.

Previously:

Some journalists can see through Trump's economic ruse. Time for everyone else to catch up.

CNN’s voting rights coverage demonstrates its Trump sycophant problem

CNN's Kayleigh McEnany defends Trump's sexist comments to Irish reporter