BREAKING: “GET USED TO IT!” Jake Tapper HAMMERS Trump and Pete Hegseth for constantly whining about the media holding them accountable for dead US servicemembers and vows to keep pushing them until America gets the truth!
In a powerful monologue on his show, CNN’s Jake Tapper called out the president and his Secretary of War Crimes for trying to repress the media and escape responsibility for getting people killed.
“You see President Trump there at the Pilbara Air Force Base yesterday, welcoming home the remains of six American service members killed so far in the conflict with Iran, what’s called a dignified transfer. Their names are 20-year-old Sergeant Declan Cody, 39-year-old Sergeant First Class Nicole Amore, 35-year-old Captain Cody Cork, 42-year-old Sergeant First Class Noah Teejens, 45-year-old Major Jeffrey O’Brien, and 54-year-old Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan. They were killed by an Iranian drone strike on an operations center in Kuwait, a source telling CNN there were no warnings, no sirens before the attack,” began Tapper.
“When reporters began asking about that deadly strike almost a week ago, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, well, he bristled at the questions. ‘When a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front page news. I get it, the press only wants to make the president look bad,’” Tapper said, quoting Hegseth.
“This is not even remotely why we cover service members who are killed. To say the obvious, journalists reporting prominently on American service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice, this long precedes Secretary Hegseth’s tenure. It’s been going on for decades, and it isn’t about making the president, any president, look bad.”
“It should be front page news. It certainly was in the home states of Sergeant Teejens and Captain Cork and Sergeant Amore. In Iowa, home of Sergeant Cody, Major O’Brien, and Chief Marzan, it was front page news three days in a row, as it should be.”
“Hegseth’s bizarre accusation led to the White House attacking the news media, specifically CNN. But let’s be clear, it is the news media’s responsibility to cover this war, not to cheerlead for it. It is our responsibility to ask questions of government officials, especially when the lives of American service members are on the line, especially when civilians abroad, whether in Iran or Israel or anywhere else, are being killed.”
“Questions such as, were there adequate anti-air defenses at that U.S. base? Or even more basic ones, such as, are we at war with Iran?”
“They’re attacking CNN for reporting inside Iran, showing what life looks like there. They’re attacking the news media for asking questions of the president or the secretary of defense.”
“They’re attacking us for covering, covering troop deaths. Guess what? We’re not gonna stop. It doesn’t matter how many times the propaganda campaign that accompanies any war is deployed against us.”
“So get used to it.”
WOW. Thank you, Jake, for taking a stand for the American people, for our fallen troops, and for truth and accountability.
We cannot allow Trump and his murderous goons to lie their way out of answering for the deadly consequences of their illegal actions.
BREAKING: “GET USED TO IT!” Jake Tapper HAMMERS Trump and Pete Hegseth for constantly whining about the media holding them accountable for dead US servicemembers and vows to keep pushing them until America gets the truth!
