On Friday’s CNN This Morning, New York Times reporter—and CNN political analyst—Maggie Haberman claimed that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth using religion to justify war is something “unlike anything that we have seen…in the last 80 years.” And “it’s where it starts to go off the rails.”
She especially hated using religion to “justify essentially attacking the press and saying that the press is doing a bad job for doing its job and raising questions about this war.” The press isn’t just “raising questions.” It’s relentlessly negative, from multiple directions, like switching from hating Trump’s threats of mass destruction and then mocking him for “chickening out” with a ceasefire.
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