It's been traumatizing to be blacklisted by FOX & CNN for confirming a published report that Trump had a superPAC, then be catfished, hacked, spied on by Trump hired thugs, canceled by "bros" in media in bed w/Michael Caputo & JD Gordon, and to see Garland let them all skate 1/4
And to wonder if my immune system was compromised by all of this, resulting in my stage 3 cancer. And to hear story after story and witness media still protecting criminals, the white male power structure stronger than ever as women get ruined, yet we're told to still "fight"2/4
.... while getting nothing in return -- no justice, no reparations, no equal or fair treatment by the media, no getting our lives, livelihoods and reputations back. No nothing. 3/4
Seriously -- why should we bother anymore? Until this "system" cleans up some of these messes instead of sweeping them under the rug, it's all just noise. Waste of time. Complete BS. Lewandowski, Caputo, JD Gordon, the Conways, et al should've been canceled long ago. 4/4
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TBT: This is why Trump forced Roger Ailes and @CNN's Jeff Zucker to blacklist me. I could confirm he had the superPAC and was lying when he said he didn't. It was only the primary and they were protecting him. washingtonpost.com/politics/the-i… 1/5
@williegarson was not just a great actor and person, but a patriot. He was one of our celeb readers for "America Reads The Mueller Report" we aired on local TV in key battleground states to reach persuadable voters. He joined @morgfair@MrJonCryer@Montel_Williams@TomArnold 1/6
When I first started going on TV as a political "pundit" it was unheard of to not have literally years of political experience. If you were "camera ready" it helped. Then it turned into a free-for-all of young women w/no experience but w/ insider boyfriends getting them on TV
Putting Roger Ailes' backwash next to David Gergen as if "colleagues" is a disservice to viewers, actual political operatives, and to journalism itself. It's also dangerous since lawmakers do, in fact, adjust how they do their work, in reaction to these pundits. It matters.
I remember one of them offering "analysis" on then-candidate Romney re: Virginia primary: "Romney would really like to win Virginia"(really?? DUH!) and she lliterally had no idea what the strategy was, polling, history, political environment, or how endorsements played.
If congressional Dems hadn't let Michael Caputo off the hook for lying under oath to Congress about his dealings with Russians during the 2016 campaign, and CNN had not made him a TV star pundit, he'd NEVER have been at HHS to implement the COVID strategy to infect & kill us.1/4
Letting Trump criminals skate has big, dangerous, and even deadly consrquences. Trump "respects" people who get on TV and people who get away with crimes, which is why he put Caputo at HHS. Congressional Dems need to acknowledge their role. 2/4
Yes, referring Caputo to DoJ at that time would've resulted in Sessions letting him off the hook. But it also would have made it less likely that CNN would've elevated Caputo to "respected pundit" and Trump would never have placed him at HHS to spread COVID. Harsh, but true 3/4
I remember seeing GOP outcast, clownish Roger Stone in his wide-striped mobster suits on TV here & there in some association with Trump. But that was it. I think Ailes & O'Reilly played ball with him bcs they thought he was a clown and it'd be fun. Zucker was a different story /2
But Trump and Putin had laid the groundwork and the networks were in place, so he very soon had these guys by the doo-dads. Washington power players had no idea the power center (media) in NYC was where the strings were beng pulled, since DC is the center of political power /3
Trump/Putin worked that "element of surprise". Created chaos, if you will. Establishment Republicans in DC were adamantly against Trump, but the media power centers in NYC were pumping him into every living room in America -- a constant feed. Media vs Establishment GOP. /4
5 years ago today, Trump had Jeff Zucker ban me from @CNN after this segment w/Kayleigh. CNN even scrubbed the transcript from their archives, then gave Kayleigh a paid contract.
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Trump then took to Twitter to defame me. Just completely lied about me. CNN is still really ok with this.