Trump advisor Jason Miller stopped by CNN This Morning on Thursday, and was left squirming when anchor Kasie Hunt confronted him about Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social post that featured a screenshot of an image of younger Kamala Harris smiling next to Hillary Clinton, with a caption underneath that read, “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently.”

“What would you say to the vice president of the United States about the comment that [Trump] reposted?” Hunt asked.

“Well, I saw the social media post,” Miller replied. “I have not discussed that with the president. I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there or simply the picture.”

Miller then quickly pivoted to accuse Democrats of attacking Trump with even more vitriol, telling Hunt, “The attacks that have been levied by Kamala Harris’ campaign and by Harris’ allies against President Trump — not just recently but over the past year and a half, two years, ever since he came down the escalator, quite frankly—in the case of many leftist-centered people, have been quite horrific.”

Hunt asked Miller if he thought the criticisms against Trump have been “as horrific” as the image Trump had reposted. Miller replied, “Oh, a hundred times worse.”

“But they haven’t been sexual in nature in this way,” Hunt pointed out.

“Again, I haven’t discussed that with the president,” Miller said. “I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there. That’s not something that I have asked.”

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What’s up with these Facebook level “meme” responses. Just type the fucking words you don’t need to make it an image

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internet pictures should only be pornography. everything else should be text

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I undersrabd that way they are more easy to share on some apps, but I don’t like that they don’t work for blind users and if people would properly add the alt text anyway, there’s no point of uploading the image any more

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Figures you’re the kind of fucker who’d think trump being a rapist is a brag cx how does it feel knowing all there is to your personality is trying to own the libs? I bet it’s sad and lonely :3

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wtf? did you even read what you’re so angrily replying to?

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Yep, this person is a magat weirdo. Look them up in the modlog, they posted this shit on a post about trump and got really upset that others don’t like trump

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Oh, a hundred times worse.

!!!

What an absolute despicable liar.
Arguably the worst thing Harris has called Trump is “felon”, and that is true.

But next Jason Miller will probably claim that because it’s true it’s worse, and Trump is crying himself to sleep every night over it, because he is such a spoiled cry baby.

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Why didn’t the anchor ask him to name an example

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What?! Do actual journalism?

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Because CNN was bought out to destroy its journalism. Same thing that happened to Twitter - they’re buying up all sources of information so that they can control the narrative.

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Yes they are generally too soft on these assholes and their far out claims.

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Isn’t that the point in the interview, after Jason Miller says that the Harris campaign did something 100x worse, when you tell Miller that since he knows something that much worse, he should give an actual example?

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The interview is OK, although they could have been more direct on that.
Jason Miller is still a despicable liar.

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“I don’t know if he even saw the comment” implies he thinks Trump would post a smiling picture of K&H with no context. Yea, that sounds like him

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She also called him weird which, based on their responses, I can only conclude is the modern equivalent of being stripped naked in the public square and forced to dance upon hot coals while being prodded with iron spikes by the King’s guard.

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there’s a difference between acknowledging a fact and calling someone a name

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“Well, I saw the social media post,” Miller replied. “I have not discussed that with the president. I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there or simply the picture.”

Why would a Trump advisor discuss it with Biden? Does Jason Miller have dementia?

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Yes I know about the convention of addressing former presidents as “president.” Trump does not fucking deserve that courtesy, not even the slightest bit!

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Wouldn’t the next question be “if he’s unable to process or notice that a single simple caption under the image exists, how could he be trusted to process information pertinent to running a nation?”

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He is straight up illiterate. I watched a video where an actor working with him on some show said he couldn’t read his lines - he insisted on making up his own lines.

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It’s worth adding that not only did he not write his famous book The Art of the Deal, he’s never even read it.

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Unfortunately bigotry is what his voters are looking for. Posting bigoted content and then lying when he is caught is what they want to see.

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Sure but why let the spoke person skate with such a ridiculous answer?

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It’s a title, used like “President Obama.” I don’t think normal people say “the president” about former ones. This is weird conduct.

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Emily Post’s Etiquette (the standard for people who dine regularly with multiple forks) says addressing former Presidents this way is incorrect.

https://emilypost.com/advice/addressing-a-former-president-of-the-united-states

It carves out a slight exception for informal settings, but still advises against.

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I agree. I think “Mr. Obama” is appropriate 2017 and onward. But like is noted there, “President Obama,” is still at least a common mistake, I could see how that extends into formal settings as well.

I don’t think “the president” is common. Nor a mistake, coming from that source.

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Don’t forget that CNN has shifted with the Overton Window to the right.

CNN is just about what Faux News was when it first launched. They pander to both sides but just a little more to the right.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3634717-changes-spark-chatter-of-cnn-is-shift-from-left-to-right/amp/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cnn-getting-more-republicans-on-air-it-seeks-political-diversity-2023-05-18/

some details for anyone unaware that this has been gradually happening since they got bought a few years ago. Class war is a bitch when they own all the media.

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There is an author that wrote a book about 20 years ago that was his mea culpa for helping CNN to create the shout show format. I’m not sure they’ve ever really been even half as “liberal” as the unhinged right wing claims.

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Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire was also 20 years ago now.

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Yes, good point. I was going to mention that Firing Line with Bill F’ing Buckley was on PBS long before then, too. And PBS is supposedly the network of Karl Marx, if you are to believe the unhinged right wing.

And that’s after Buckley called Vidal a queer and threatened him with violence.

Firing Line is something the people at CNN were most likely influence by. I wish I could remember the name of that book and the name of the person that wrote it, but I bet they even said something about Firing Line.

In any case, this stuff has been going on for a very long time, on my supposedly “liberal media” television stations…LOL.

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Amazing. His defense is that trump maybe just shared a sexed up, generated image of Harris without reading the caption. What a creep.

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Trump also blamed others for the Arlington scandal.

“I want to run the whole country, but I don’t take responsibility for any of my own actions”.

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Fucking hell! I was so confused why this guy needed to talk to Biden. It’s ex-president or if you’re being detailed felon, rapist, racist, pedophile, twice impeached, ex-president.

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Defeated former president.

Every other presidential candidate election during my lifetime has conceded. He was resoundingly defeated.

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