CNN's Scott Jennings at the CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Des Moines, Iowa on January 10, 2024 (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
Like Fox News' Sean Hannity, CNN's Scott Jennings often draws scathing criticism and mockery from Donald Trump opponents for stridently defending the president at every turn. Much of the criticism comes from Democrats, yet right-wing Never Trumpers have major disagreements with Jennings as well.
Some of those Never Trumpers are at CNN, including SE Cupp and Florida-based Ana Navarro (a Nicaraguan immigrant who, in the past, helped former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other Republicans with their Latino outreach).
Jennings recently attacked Never Trumpers, claiming that Trump is quite consistent with traditional GOP conservatism. But The Bulwark's Tim Miller, a former Republican strategist, pushed back against Jennings' pro-Trump "rationalizations" in a biting video posted in late November.
Miller told viewers, "(Jennings') core argument for Donald Trump is that he will stand up for America and he will stand up for the West. I just think this is a fundamentally flawed argument…. There's some idea that the left is out there and they're in league with the Shariah-law Muslims and these other people that hate American values — so you have no choice but to support Donald Trump."
Jennings, Miller noted, went from being a "rank-and-file part of the Bush GOP" to "Trump's biggest cable-TV shill." And the "problem" with Jennings' pro-Trump arguments, according to Miller, is that "Donald Trump is a threat on American values at home and abroad."
"And Donald Trump is a threat to the West," Miller added. "If you care about the western world order — the post-World War 2 alliances that have allowed us to live peacefully in this world, that have created unimaginable economic success and freedom and liberty for people in Europe and here and throughout the world — then how can you say you're for Donald Trump? Donald Trump is trying to unravel all that."
The Never Trump conservative added, "Donald Trump is trying to dismantle the western world order. He said so. He went to the Middle East and gave a big speech about how all this talk in the past about supporting democracy abroad and all this stuff was naïve, silly, dumb."
Miller argued that while Jennings makes light of Trump's "bullying of Canada," that "bullying" is having a "real impact" — as Canada is now working more "with China."
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