No, CNN hasn’t jumped the shark. But they’ve come close to it. They let a Republican named Matthew Whitaker actually write about the truth. Matthew Whitaker is a CNN legal commentator which is also hard to believe. Hard to believe from CNN, but it happened. Matthew Whitaker wrote an article about how Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump or the “Russia collusion BS” has gone too far. CNN did force him to write the follwing disclaimer (as to not alienate their leftist airport base.)
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Editor’s Note: Matthew Whitaker is a CNN legal commentator and former US attorney who directs the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a conservative ethics watchdog group. He ran in the Republican primary for Iowa Senate in 2014. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
It’s OK CNN. Now one is worried that you are actually moving away from your anti-Trump bias with just one pro-Trump article.
Last month, when President Donald Trump was asked by The New York Times if special counsel Robert Mueller would be crossing a line if he started investigating the finances of Trump and his family, the President said, “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”
The President is absolutely correct. Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing.
According to a CNN article, Mueller’s investigators could be looking into financial records relating to the Trump Organization that are unrelated to the 2016 election. According to these reports, “sources described an investigation that has widened to focus on possible financial crimes, some unconnected to the 2016 election.” The piece goes on to cite law enforcement sources who say non-Russia-related leads that “involve Trump associates” are being referred to the special counsel “to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate.”
This information is deeply concerning to me. It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating Donald Trump’s finances or his family’s finances falls completely outside of the realm of his 2016 campaign and allegations that the campaign coordinated with the Russian government or anyone else. That goes beyond the scope of the appointment of the special counsel.