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CNN's Scott Jennings Compares The Epstein Files To The Steele Dossier Attacks On Trump
On Thursday Hillary Clinton testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of their investigation of the Epstein files, where she claimed in her opening statement that she had never met Jeffrey Epstein, and accused the committee of using her testimony to "distract" from and "cover up" Donald Trump's involvement with Epstein. This is a theme that the leftist media had been pushing, and later, on CNN's The Arena, Hillary's words seemed to serve as a shot in the arm for them to ratchet up the anti-Trump rhetoric.
About thirty minutes into the show, which was dominated by coverage and analysis of the Clinton testimony, CNN pundit and former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield insisted the Clintons were fine, but all this would damage President Trump.
BEDINGFIELD: As a political matter, I mean I think the idea of bringing Hillary Clinton in, again, to me, this only underscores for the American public the hypocrisy in the way the Republicans are handling this. But also, you have to remember that the person for whom Epstein is the biggest political problem, the biggest political albatross right now is Donald Trump. And so the more this is front and center, the more Donald Trump is having to talk about this, the more damage it's doing to him. Bill Clinton [who would testify Friday] has not been president of the United States in 26 years. So should he be accountable for things that he did that were unacceptable? Yes, he should. Of course he should. But as a purely political matter, this is damaging to Donald Trump.
Classic Democrat spin. Hunt then addressed the only conservative on her panel, Scott Jennings and presented a disclaimer of sorts.
HUNT: There's what may or may not be in the files that names Donald Trump...I think we've been very clear on this show, it's very important to be clear that these files are of an investigation that contains allegations. It is not saying that those allegations are true. Right we're not sitting here and saying, you know, the current president has committed a crime, we're not saying Bill Clinton has committed a crime, we're not saying that. But Donald Trump as the current President of the United States has the power to release the Democrats say, 2.5 million files that are still unreleased here...
JENNINGS: Well if the files can be released, and they should be released according to the law that Congress passed, they should do that.
Polite exchange, but things were about to get heated.
JENNINGS:.. Regarding Trump, if they end up asking him questions, I assume he's going to end up testifying somewhat about the whistleblower status that he has in these files. I mean, the only real true thing that we know is that he called up the police in Florida and said, you need to look at this. You need to look at this guy. You need to look at Ghislaine Maxwell. He was telling them he was warning them about what Jeffrey Epstein was doing.
And although you're being quite clear that the President has never been accused of anything, any wrongdoing, you have Democrat after Democrat after Democrat, even Hillary Clinton, just a little while ago, all too happy to go on television and cast aspersions on his character using this idea that well, his name appears in the files. They're trying to mislead the American people. It's the Steele Dossier all over again. That's all this is.
Great analogy, but Hunt wasn't having it.
HUNT: Hold on, hold on..
JENNINGS: ..Let's just throw out and hope it sticks even though there is no evidence whatsoever.
HUNT: Hold on, the Steele Dossier is completely unrelated to what we're talking about.
JENNINGS: It is because it was a bunch of uncorroborated crap, and you're trying to stick it to the guy.
HUNT: That's not what I'm doing.
Hunt hadn't yet had enough of trying to cast doubt on Trump.
HUNT: The thing is, if Donald Trump is in fact the whistleblower and it is shown to be the whistleblower exclusively in these files, why did he fight so hard to prevent Congress from passing this law in the first place?
JENNINGS: He signed the law....He did raise a legitimate issue, which is when you start dumping unredacted and uncorroborated documents out into the public domain, people who have nothing to do with it could be getting hurt....But the reality is he signed the law they've released millions of documents.
Keep in mind that most liberal shows, by design, don't have a Scott Jennings on the panel to refute their unfounded accusations against President Trump,