CNN’s resident Trump toadie, Scott Jennings, gave one of the lamest defenses yet when asked what he thought about Trump’s rambling, lie-filled hateful speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this Friday:
JENNINGS: He started the speech with something that I felt was good and necessary. We do not yield to political violence. I thought that was probably the best line of the speech, given the nature of the event tonight, and he ended the speech by saying, I have great respect for your profession.
Now the middle of it is going to be controversial because some of the jokes landed and some of the jokes didn’t. I thought the best joke was the RFK joke, you know, I hope you enjoyed the beef; he ran over the cow. I think that was probably the best joke. Some of the jokes veered off into very sort of ornery insults, and that’s not going to land for many audiences.
But I did like the part about not yielding to political violence, and I did like the fact that he did show respect to the press and their role in our American politics.